hydrogen

Scientists find hydrogen sulfide outside our solar system for the first time on a planet with glass rain | CNN

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Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins University An illustration shows exoplanet HD 189733b, a gas giant 64 light-years away. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — A Jupiter-sized exoplanet has long intrigued astronomers for its scorching temperatures, howling winds, and sideways rain … Read more

Zurich and Aon launch insurance plan to boost hydrogen development

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Stay up to date with free updates Simply log in to the Renewable energy myFT Digest — straight to your inbox. Two of the insurance sector’s largest companies, insurer Zurich and broker Aon, have launched a new hydrogen production plan to boost development of a sector seen as key to the shift to clean energy. … Read more

Joe Biden’s flagship hydrogen project is facing increasing opposition

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Unlock the US Election Countdown newsletter for free The stories that matter about money and politics in the race for the White House One of the Biden administration’s flagship projects to harness energy from hydrogen faces an uncertain future due to strong community opposition, underscoring the difficulty in rolling out a technology once hailed as … Read more

Some of the oldest life forms on Earth can live on hydrogen. What it means

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Sydney, Australia: Three quarters of all matter in the universe consists of hydrogen. The early Earth was also rich in hydrogen, thanks to intense geological and volcanic activity. Just as stars burn hydrogen to produce heat and light through nuclear reactions, life emerged by extracting energy from this simple molecule through chemical reactions. Some of … Read more

Why the ambition for hydrogen infrastructure is far from reality

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At the Paris headquarters of the International Energy Agency (IEA), researchers tracking hydrogen’s progress as a clean alternative to fossil fuels have a list of more than 100 pipelines for the gas, spanning more than a dozen countries. But the vast majority of these projects are concepts or undergoing feasibility studies. Only one is actually … Read more

Solving the chicken-and-egg problem of green hydrogen

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Andrew Cunningham, CEO of ‘green’ hydrogen company GeoPura, likens the challenge of scaling the sector to a gridlock. “It’s about breaking through the ‘chicken and egg’,” he says. There is a “cycle of people not building hydrogen production capacity because they are not sure who will use it. . . And [of] people who do … Read more

Scientists propose converting natural gas directly into hydrogen in gas fields

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The process of hydrogen production from gas fields. Credit: Mukhina et al. / Fuel, 2024 Researchers at Skoltech have found a way to produce hydrogen from natural gas with an efficiency of 45%, directly in the gas field, by injecting steam and a catalyst into a well and adding oxygen to ignite the gas. The … Read more

This engine runs on three fuels: neither electricity nor hydrogen

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Niyato Industries Inc. has come up with a cool tri-fuel engine which allows a Ford F-350 4×4 pickup to run on gasoline, compressed natural gas (CNG) or propane. For the propane setup you will need a different tank and an evaporator, which you can order when retrofitting the vehicle. This depends on the original purchase … Read more