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Photos: Six unusual power sources

Photo The fuel cell converts the chemical energy produced by mixing hydrogen and oxygen from the air to churn out the electrical energy needed to power the servers with three 10kW cells. Data centres are infamous for gobbling up plenty of power, so IT...

Tags: power, energy, solar, mobile devices

[19 Nov 2007]

Photos: Five unusual data centres

Photo A fuel cell converts chemical energy to electrical and thermal energy. IT consultancy Comtec Enterprises has come up with the novel idea of using hydrogen fuel cells - developed by APC - as a back-up power supply for its green data centre.

Tags: green it, fuel cell, data centre

[25 Jul 2007]

Fuel Cell Maker Cuts Time-to-Market Up to 30 Percent With Business Intelligence Solution

whitepaper Ballard Power Systems, a world leader in fuel cell development, needed to give its researchers faster, fuller insights into manufacturing and test processes and data, in order to cut time-to-market and increase competitiveness.

Tags: database management, manufacturing, intelligence, certified

[01 May 2007]

Start-ups cash in on 'exploding' battery recalls

News Fuel cell makers say their time has come. Stung by product safety outcries, notebook manufacturers are showing signs of willingness to experiment with new types of batteries and suppliers. Lithium ion batteries have been the de facto standard for...

Tags: batteries, laptop, dell

[20 Dec 2006]

Laptop PC Power Sources: An Update

whitepaper It also provides developments and roadmap for high capacity batteries and fuel cell technologies. This presentation provides guidelines for achieving 8 or more hours of laptop battery life.

Tags: cell, capacity, life, developments

[03 Nov 2006]

Mobile Power Delivery

whitepaper The presentation provides update on Notebook Power Sources and challenges facing emerging chemistries battery and Fuel Cell technologies. This presentation is intended for notebook power adapter vendors, notebook thermal engineers, and notebook...

Tags: network design, notebook, fuel cell, selection

[01 Aug 2006]

How China's universities fuel tech growth

Comment At that time not many people had them but the quality of life is getting better now - even my grandfather has a cell phone. China's universities churn out millions of graduates but integration with the tech economy isn't straightforward, Dan Ilett...

Tags: china

[20 Jun 2006]

3GSM Diary: The chillin' house, out of Africa and Olympic efforts

Comment His operations have to deal with powering their own cell sites (through delivering fuel regularly around countries with awful roads) and building their own backbones. For Craig David, it may have been early but the young singer - and I disclose...

Tags: mobile technology, 3gsm

[16 Feb 2006]

Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum

Comment But despite continuing enthusiasm from the fuel cell industry, many of these products are not new. Both Hitachi and Toshiba exhibited DFMC products at last year's Ceatec and the commercial launch of methanol-based fuel cell products seems to be as...

Tags: mobile phone, battery, battery life, fuel cell

[09 Nov 2005]

Radioactive: Mobile television on trial

Comment Japanese operator KDDI recently announced it would launch fuel cell handsets next year, which would give up to three times the operational duration. There simply isn't enough capacity in each 3G cell for mass streaming or downloading, particularly...

Tags: mobile tv, mobile tv, nokia, 02

[06 Oct 2005]

Analysis: Enterprise portals in action

Comment But this wasn't a problem for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) when it decided last September to build an EP as a catalyst to disseminate information for the burgeoning UK fuel cell research community.

Tags: ep

[24 Mar 2004]

Integration of Fuel Cell Technology into the Virginia Tech 1998 Hybrid Electric FutureCar

whitepaper A 20kW fuel cell can be used in a series hybrid configuration to obtain good performance from a mid-size sedan such as a Chevrolet Lumina. To achieve the PNGV goal of 3X will require a new vehicle designed as a lightweight fuel cell vehicle.

Tags: infrastructure management, cell, stock, energy

[24 Feb 2004]

Palm Handhelds Fuel Productivity of Shell's Sales Force

whitepaper Shell Brazil is the largest fuel distributor in Brazil, supplying 20% of the country's fuel. As a result of the success Shell Distributors experienced with Palm, the company is currently studying the possibility of incorporating Bluetooth cards...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications

[24 Feb 2004]

5 years ago... Mobile phones to run on alcohol

5 years ago... Mobile phones to run on alcohol

News Chief fuel cell scientist, Robert Hockaday said in a statement: "We expect to complete a fully working prototype before mid-1999. 05.01.99: Manhattan Scientifics claims to have perfected the alcohol-powered mobile phone.

[05 Jan 2004]

Intel promises to add some stamina to mobile devices

Intel promises to add some stamina to mobile devices

News It has also been investing in new battery technologies such as fuel cell and other alternatives, they said. It also introduced the next-generation XScale processor for mobile devices, code-named Bulverde, which is designed to add computing...

Tags: dothan, sonoma, pentium m, intel

[18 Sep 2003]

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

whitepaper Many complex and serious problems could be drastically reduced, or even eliminated, if society could successfully transition from dependence on a fossil-fuel-based economy to the proposed hydrogen energy/electric economy of the future.

Tags: energy, economy, hydrogen, conditions

[14 Aug 2003]

Perovskites as Materials for Electrodes

whitepaper High-temperature fuel cells with solid electrolyte usually are used at temperatures about 1000°C. The time for the cell to reach the thermodynamic equilibrium state largely depends on the quality of the electrolyte applied and on the electrolyte...

Tags: structure, materials, cells, equilibrium

[14 Aug 2003]

Alternative Fuels for U.S. Transportation

whitepaper It is assumed that battery-electric, fuel cell, and grid-connected hybrid vehicles that will be commercially available in the future will consume some alternative fuels. The focus of this paper is on alternative fuels, primarily for highway...

Tags: transportation, vehicles, fuels, connected

[14 Aug 2003]

Qualcomm keeps the good news coming in Q2

Qualcomm keeps the good news coming in Q2

News Qualcomm said greater demand for its mobile phone chips helped fuel the quarter's mostly positive results. The company said in March that it expected to ship 28 million MSM cell phone chips this quarter, about a million more than projected in January.

Tags: jacobs, msm, worldchip, cdma

[24 Apr 2003]

Toshiba nearer to using methanol <strong>fuel</strong> cells to power laptops

Toshiba nearer to using methanol fuel cells to power laptops

News Toshiba next week plans to exhibit a fuel cell prototype that it says has the potential to replace environmentally taxing, rechargeable batteries with clean-energy technology. The Japanese electronics company, which ranks among the top notebook...

Tags: battery, fuel, toshiba, methanol

[06 Mar 2003]

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