Hydrogen fuel energy

That said, hydrogen as a popular fuel source has been stymied by an almost complete lack of a fueling infrastructure. There are currently 39 public hydrogen fueling stations in California (with another 25 in development), along with a couple in Hawaii. The East Coast is trying to get in on the action. A handful of stations are up and running, and more are in the works in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. … [Read more...] about General Motors, after flubbing its deal with Nikola, eyes a new hydrogen truck project

So far, the largest biofuels efforts have involved the age-old process of converting sugars in plants into ethanol. If biofuels are ever to make a significant dent in fossil fuel use, however, they're probably going to have to be made from something that can't also be used as food (either by us or our farm animals.) That means working with something other than sugar. … [Read more...] about US opens first commercial plant that converts corn waste to fuel

Amazon is working on something similar to what I believe Apple is creating, but it will be tied to incentives and rewards with Prime and branded something along the line of PrimeRide. In 2020, the company bought ZOOX, a driverless vehicle company building highly-specialized electric transportation vans. It has recently shown what these vehicles look like, and they are extremely futuristic indeed. It's a Syd Mead-Esque, pod-like thing for sharing rides for up to four people. … [Read more...] about 2024 will be the year Apple and Amazon release us from our automotive prison

Let the insanity begin By this point, the muon is typically in an orbital that is lower energy but has more energy than the ground state. The researchers set up a trigger sensitive to the appearance of muons in the experiment. After a delay to allow the muons to boot out the two electrons, the trigger causes a laser to hit the sample with the right amount of energy to boost the muon from the 2S orbital to the 2P orbital. From there, it will decay into the ground state, releasing an X-ray in the process. … [Read more...] about Unstable helium adds a limit on the ongoing saga of the proton’s size

An expansion of agricultural land can only occur if whatever is presently on the land is sacrificed—this can mean abandoned lands, pastures, or natural systems. Natural systems such as grasslands and forests store large amounts of carbon; if turned into agricultural lands, this carbon could be released into the atmosphere. Though crops also store carbon as biomass during their growth, regular harvests do not allow for long-term carbon storage. From a climate perspective, this could be problematic. … [Read more...] about Crop-based biofuels will take years to truly help the environment