 Cella Energy CEO Stephen Voller exhibits his breakthrough technology – right shows the fuel’s hydrogen microbeads under a microscope |
UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.
According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying.
Another company working on a fuel alternative… the more the merrier.
If this were true, this guy would be dead in a week!!
It (the underlying technology) also cures headache, the common cold and most forms of cancer.
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There is also pill made of old tires that will, when dropped into ten gallons of water, power any gasoline engine and produce zero emissions. The gasoline companies have managed to suppress this alternative. They killed all people involved in it’s development, and have lobbied the government at all levels to ignore it’s existence. In addition, there is a similar pill, made from styrofoam, that will reverse the aging process.
And there’s a car that runs on water…and you’ll have a flying car within 2 years (a guy has a working one, I swear, it’s almost ready for production!)
This is like every Popular Science cover of ‘flying cars’ for 50 years. It’s all stories about “a guy” or research group that swears it finally has a solution…and then the fine print, barely mentioned in the article. The sentence that says “if we can only overcome this ONE obstacle”. And that one obstacle is usually a fundamental law of physics, and we never hear of this again.
Ok ass wipe, you can make $1.50 a gallon zero emission fuel? Do it. Drive that car up to the White House and show me. Don’t just tell me you ALMOST have it…as a beg for more research funding (cough) and then we never hear from you again.
$1.50 per gallon? Not with liberals running this country. They’ll find ways to increase taxes on fuel so they can increase their revenue streams for all their little pet projects.
I’m reminded of the “Amish” built heaters hocked in Parade Magazine. Actually, I’m surprised that the Amish haven’t instigated a lawsuit against those charlatans for defamation of character, but I guess, being Amish precludes filing such a suit.
This one is another one to believe when I see it.
The carbon eating, gasoline producing microbe from a couple of weeks ago seems far, far more promising.
pointless.. its still “a fuel”
fuel-less technology has been available since the early 1900’s.
call me when then they decide
to declare it no longer a threat to “national security”
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Yes these chaps say their current technology is NOT commerically
viable. Go read the link. Typical tech report ignorance.
While I’m happy to see lesbian entrepreneurs as this innovate, I am always skeptical of promises of easily recoverable energy sources that begin with low energy densities.
Note An average human body has huge atomic energy capacity but not easily recoverable. However, i support setting rush Limbaugh on fire to power a small town for a week.
40, Dallas,
And who says Liberals don’t try to incite violence? 🙂
#41 obviously he would be set on fire after he’s deceased. Did you not read the cremation story?
#15: Bingo! The chemistry is all smoke and mirrors. If the company has some way to keep the hydrogen safely stored until needed, that might be progress. I don’t see it yet in the “breakthrough.”
John Dvorak (who’s also a chemical engineer), do you agree?
#17 These people do storage. The article says they make fuel.
If you work at it you might figure out the difference.
Where’s the B.S. O-Meter???
OK, so since all the nattering nabobs of negativity have nosed their numbsculls into the conversation, I wish the scientists the best and hope they come up with something. If their own work isn’t feasible, then may we learn something that will enable us create some other power source to compliment or replace fossil fuels.