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| Funding
Granted in Research on Hydrogen as a Possible Fuel Source
Publication date: 23-December-2003
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| The Global Climate and Energy Project, based
at Stanford and working with private industry funds, recently announced
the four research teams who will receive a total of $5.1 million to investigate
all aspects of eventually replacing carbon-based fuels with hydrogen. Over
the next ten years, GCEP's four sponsors have agreed to donate $225 million.
ExxonMobil will supply most of the funding, as well as General Electric,
Schlumberger (global technology), and Toyota. Several other research institutions
will eventually join the project, and many departments at Stanford are
participating: the Environmental Initiative, the Center for Environmental
Science Policy, the Center for Conservation Biology, the Program on Energy
and Sustainable Development, and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
in Environment and Resources.
Hydrogen's only byproduct when combusted is water, but on a large scale there would be indirect problems, around which most current debate is centered. The research projects chosen for funding are: "Nanoengineering of Hybrid Carbon Nanotube - Metal Nanocluster Composite Materials for Hydrogen Storage;" "Hydrogen Effects on Climate, Stratospheric Ozone and Air Pollution;" "Solid State NMR Studies of Oxide Ion Conducting Ceramics for Enhanced Fuel Cell Performance;" and "Nanostructured Photovoltaic Cells." ~ |
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