Essays Tagged: "fuel cells"
Alternative Fuels
over 40 sources - very comprehensive overview Omit Fuel Cells (not an alt fuel)Paxton King11&12*1995An Examination of Feasible Alternative Fuels In ... non-renewable resource. In recent years, tendencies have just begun to, at times, favor alternative fuels to power autos. Many possible alternative fuels exist, certainly not without their drawbacks. ... do exist; the chief drawbacks being cost of adaption / implementation, engineering, and cost of the fuels themselves. As stated by many a chairman of petroleum companies, alternative fuels have limite ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Can a 19th Century Discovery be the Solution for the 21st Century Energy Problem?
Fuel Cells:Can a 19th Century Discovery be the Solution for the 21st Century Energy Problem?ByDaniel ... ury Energy Problem?ByDaniel McCarthyProfessor Regis P. BeighleyEco 2252September 30th 2001McCarthy 1Fuel Cells: Can a 19th Century Discovery be the Solution for the 21st Century Energy Problem?The ene ... bersome solar power, the highly risky nuclear power, or the little publicly known technology called fuel cells. But who wants to drive around in a large, slow and bulky solar powered vehicle or drive ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Fuel Cells - The Ultimate Alternative to Combat Automobile Emissions
MBA - Environmental StrategyFuel Cells: The Ultimate Alternative to Combat Automobile EmissionsTwo years ago, Hanover, Germany, ... improve the nature of our environment. One exhibit focused on combustion engines and explained how fuel cells were already seen as the next technology to significantly reduce the greenhouse gases we ... sis can be solved is through the technology of tomorrow. This technology is currently thought to be fuel cells, the best alternative. Before it can be understood why fuel cells are the best technology ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Matter Cycles
e life on earth. It is a critical element in binding of nucleic aids, is used in the molecules that fuel cells and it also goes into calcium phosphate for bones, teeth, nails and shells. They are also ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The New Batteries: Micro Fuel Cells...(essay written for Design & Technology)
lightweight battery infact, is not a battery at all, but a tiny, polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell thatproduces electricity electrochemically, by reacting hydrogen or methanol with oxyge ... s "cool", at just a few degrees above room temperature.Compared with a traditional power source, fuel cells have high power and energy density, high efficiency, relatively low or even no pollution ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies
Nanomanufacturing
Nano fuelRechargeable batteries are well-suited to portable-power applications where the energy requi ... ell beyond the capabilities of batteries. For this reason, attention is turning to so-called 'micro fuel cells' that promise an energy-storage capability of over an order of magnitude greater than tha ... albeit with a lower power output. It is, therefore, widely thought that the first major markets for fuel cells will be established in the field of portable power.Already, there has been a surge of ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology
Federal Highway System
Bush's decision to use that speech to ask for $1.2 billion in federal funds to support fuel-cell and hydrogen research was a boost for the emerging technology, which converts hydrogen int ... day" is powered by hydrogen and pollution free.By investing federal dollars into the development of fuel cells, the president is seeking to neutralize environmentalists who favor progressively tighter ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Building a spacecraft to travel to Mars
stay clean. This water will need to be recycled. This will happen by recycling the Space Shuttle's fuel cells, from urine, from oral hygiene and hand washing, and by condensing humidity from the air. ... 2π= 0.12495 rotations per second.Rotations per minute = 0.12495 x 60= 7.5rpmThe MissionThe most fuel efficient way our astronauts and the Space shuttle will travel to mars and back is to use the t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
Mission and Objectives Paper
product to the Japanese market and position the product to capture an emerging market for alternate fuel cell technology. The following mission of Power-Mass and the organizational objectives for the ... e market.MissionPower-Mass is a company specializing in the production of methanol (methyl alcohol) fuel cartridges for the emerging hydrogen micro-fuel cell market. Our CP-500 fuel cell cartridge is ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Ethics and the Environment Case Study: Fueling the World
ply of oil" (Appenzeller, 2004, p. 88). The United States is one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels. This paper presents Learning Team A's fossil fuel case study analysis. The selected case stud ... se summary details the damages being, done to the global environment by our continued use of fossil fuels. The damage being, the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, land, and water spills ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
The Fuel Cell
Drive ecologically friendly without emissions, with clean and renewable fuel like methanol or hydrogen, with automobiles just as comfortable, fast and secure as usual - all ... with automobiles just as comfortable, fast and secure as usual - all this will be possible with the fuel cell. Since 1990 DaimlerChrysler has been developing this advanced technology. And all this wit ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
The Future in Automobile Technology
? Is this a dream? No, it is the future of automobile technology. No doubt you have heard talks of "fuel cells," and "hybrid automobiles." To most people, this is a foreign language. There is only one ... they work, what problems there are with them, and how readily available the technology is. A fuel cell is a device that converts hydrogen and oxygen into water. When this change occurs, energy ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Fuel Cells: Can a 19th Century Discovery be the Solution for the 21st Century Energy Problem?
bersome solar power, the highly risky nuclear power, or the little publicly known technology called fuel cells. But who wants to drive around in a large, slow and bulky solar powered vehicle or drive ... wered vehicle or drive around in an atomic bomb? The most promising technology to date has been the fuel cell, which converts the chemical energy directly into electric energy. Since fuel cells genera ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges
Organizational Impact Paper
during the 21st century. General Motors created a strategy of Innovating vehicles that can be more fuel-efficient gasoline engines as well as hybrids and also biofuels. They have innovated diesel hyb ... ntinuing to thrive on ways to be eco friendly and expand on ways for vehicles to run on alternative fuels. With the recent E-Flex and fuel cells General Motors was able to enable multiple propulsion s ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Product Offering
OfferingThis paper is about a product offering. This paper will focus on the launch of the hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle for South Korea's Hyundai Motors. I will begin my launch in this paper an ... igh demand. It holds the potential to be a revolutionary vehicle especially because in the hydrogen fuel cell combined with electric market not a single car or company currently has a commanding advan ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
HYDROGEN CARS
yA. ProblemOver the years, countries such as the US have become dependent on petroleum based fossil fuels. The exhaust from cars burning these energy sources has a negative impact on the environment. ... all seem to come to the conclusion of using hydrogen cars.B. SolutionHydrogen cars operate by using fuel cells, which hold the hydrogen in either a solid, liquid, or gaseous state. The electricity to ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
The Impact of the Oil Prices on the Stock Return of Alternative Energy Companies
ernative energy firms depends on high energy prices because many alternatives (like solar power and fuel cells) have higher costs per unit of energy produced." (Azelton 2009) Because of continuous sur ... nologies. "Continuing high or rising oil prices will boost the commercial prospects for alternative fuels, while a decline will do the reverse." (Pacific Economic Cooperation Council 2006)The past 10 ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers