Tag archive: hydrogen fuel cells

Residents of California can take a trip to Orange County and find the world's first sewage-powered refueling station. Located just off the 405 freeway, the station is located next to the Orange County waste-water treatment plant in Fountain Valley. The hydrogen fuel offers about 70 miles per gallon and the station can fuel up to 50 automobiles per day with the daily 120 kilograms of hydrogen gas produced at the plant. In order to produce… Read More

You might not hop in a car powered by a hydrogen fuel cell and drive to work until decades from now, but you can charge up your gadgets based on a different type of fuel cell in just a few days. After a long line of prototypes, Toshiba has finally released the Dynario, its first methanol-powered gadget charger. Fill the Dynario with methanol – the same stuff powering dragsters, monster trucks and Indy cars – and it reacts with ambient oxygen in… Read More

Tying high-tech innovation to prosperity, President Bush is using a speech in a swing state to address an election-year vulnerability: a sluggish job market that hasn't rebounded with the nationaleconomy. In a speech Monday in Minnesota, Bush is urging Congress to slap a permanent ban on taxes consumers pay for high-speed Internet hookups called broadband. He also is touting proposals to makeelectronic medical records the norm and move… Read More