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This Goopy Paste Could One Day Power Scooters and Motorcycles

Instead of gasoline and diesel, it might one day be possible to just unload a cartridge of gray, goopy paste into…

Victoria Song

2/09/21 10:38AM

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7/3/12

This Fuel Cell Keeps Running Even When It's Out of Fuel

Fuel cells are amazing things but, just like any portable energy source, they occasionally need topping up with…

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Vampiric Implants Siphon Clam Essence for Electrical Power

Tomato juice, Bud Light, home electronics—is there anything clam won't work well in? Everybody's favorite bi-valve…

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Vampiric Implants Turn Snails Into Tiny Recon Scouts

The idea of using insects and other small creatures as data-gathering devices has always been hampered by the need…

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HydroFILL Squeezes Electricity Out of Your Tap Water

Fuel cell outfitter Horizon is now offering a personal hydrogen power plant for use with its MiniPAK and HydroSTIK…

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Remainders - The Things We Didn't Post: What Lies Beneath Edition

In today's Remainders: things lurking below the surface. Literally, a fuel cell-powered fish. Less literally, ISP's…

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Giz Explains: Fuel Cells and Bloom Energy's Miracle Box

The Bloom Box is the latest energy miracle that sounds too good to be true: Debuting with a wide-eyed segment on 60…

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The Future of Charging Gadgets? Toshiba's Methanol Fuel Cell Is Promising, Flawed

As mentioned last week, Toshiba's first batch of 3,000 direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) chargers—the first from a…

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Toshiba's Dynario Hybrid Fuel Cell/Li-ion Finally Makes 3,000 Unit Japanese First Run

The Dynario fuel cell charger from Toshiba will launch in Japan on Oct 29, bringing with it direct methane fuel cell…

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Sony Retro-Looking Fuel Cell Battery Is a Speaker Is a Charger

Sony's new concepts for fuel cell batteries come in some interesting flavors, like these speakers-with 70s…

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World's Smallest Fuel Cell Could Power Your Gadgets

Chemical engineers working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a hydrogen fuel cell…

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Congressman's Fuel Cell Road Trip Was Horrifically Inefficient

Congressman Eric Massa of NY tried to drive a fuel cell car from NY to DC to make an environmental point and to show…

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Mobion Methanol USB Charger Coming Soon

This has been years in the making, but it seems we will be able to get our own fuel-cell-based USB charger by the end…

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Horizon H-Racer 2.0: Faster, Greener, Less Likely To Smash Into Walls

The original Horizon H-Racer hydrogen fuel-cell toy just got an update: Before, you could fill it with water and let…

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Panasonic Laptop Fuel Cell Delivers 20 Hours of Power With Highly Concentrated Methanol

Panasonic's latest fuel cell breakthrough is the world's smallest designed for notebooks—270cc, about the same size…

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Korean Research Makes Hydrogen Manufacture 30 Times Cheaper

Scientists at Korea's S&P Energy Research Institute have worked out a way of manufacturing hydrogen that's 20-30…

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First Ever Hydrogen Vehicle 'Cross-Country' Road Trip Had a Lot of Help

I'm all for hydrogen-or any alternative fuel source for that matter (Shai Agassi, my man, let's get cooking already!)…

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Charge an iPod With Vodka? Sounds Educational, Incapacitating

Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies have launched the the Bio Energy Discovery Kit, a product that they are calling "the…

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Much Cheaper Fuel Cells On The Way With New Prototype

Australian researchers have developed a new fuel cell prototype that could lead to much cheaper, more efficient…

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The Future of Solar Power In a Glass of Water

Oxygen and hydrogen are both excellent energy sources, and we've got tons of both on Earth. Unfortunately, that…

Ed Grabianowski

8/01/08 11:00AM

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