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Australia-China Research Partnership Targeting Alt Fuels and Energy Storage
18 August 2008
The University of Queensland (UQ) will lead a A$3.9 million (US$3.4 million) Australia-China research partnership targeting the production of alternative liquid fuels, hydrogen, and energy storage for hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles.
UQ Vice-Chancellor, Professor Paul Greenfield said the alliance’s broad objectives were:
Cost-effective technologies for alternative liquid fuels as well as technologies from solar and clean coal processes that will enable hydrogen production; and
Materials for storing electricity and hydrogen for the new generation of hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles of the future.
All Queensland researchers are associated with the UQ-based Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and are led by Professor Max Lu, a two-time ARC Federation Fellow. The Chinese experts are from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and Institute of Metals Research.
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Posted by: arnold | August 19, 2008 at 01:45 AM
A combination of ZEBRA batteries and bipolar lead acid batteries will make the cheapest long distance plug-in-hybrid vehicle right now. Lithium batteries remain high in cost, but have a good chance of being low in price in the future. The ZEBRA and Lithium batteries may have a higher energy density than all proposed hydrogen storage plans except for hydrocarbon fuels. The recycling of CO2 is just as clean as H2 in regards to CO2 buildup.
Electro-chemists can develop "fuel cells" that produce methanol from water and CO2. The methanol can then be used at very high efficiency in a high compression engine. The use of a known compound as fuel allows easier exhaust gas clean up. It is even now possible to remove CO2 from exhaust gases and convert it to a liquid.
Electricity displaces much fuel with the use of plug-in-hybrids. MR. TATA must now engineer a cheap plug in hybrid car. To get the Plug-in-Hybrid into an economic range. ..HG..
Posted by: Henry Gibson | August 20, 2008 at 05:57 PM
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Queensland sits on one oF the largest reserves of coal on the planet.
That buys a lot of alternative in any shade of green you like!