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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 87.09 | +0.49 | +0.57% | ||
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.20 | -0.49 | -0.55% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 87.52 | +0.17 | +0.19% | ||
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Mars US • 172 days | 77.26 | -1.51 | -1.92% | ||
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Gasoline • 10 mins | 2.660 | -0.026 | -0.95% |
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Bonny Light • 1 day | 88.20 | -0.49 | -0.55% | ||
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Girassol • 1 day | 88.64 | -0.56 | -0.63% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 87.52 | +0.17 | +0.19% |
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Peace Sour • 8 hours | 75.10 | -0.32 | -0.42% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 8 hours | 78.15 | -0.32 | -0.41% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 8 hours | 85.10 | -0.32 | -0.37% | ||
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Central Alberta • 8 hours | 75.50 | -0.32 | -0.42% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 79.62 | +0.41 | +0.52% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 79.75 | +0.50 | +0.63% | ||
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Kansas Common • 6 days | 73.00 | -2.50 | -3.31% | ||
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Buena Vista • 5 days | 86.90 | +0.04 | +0.05% |
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Alternative Energy / Fuel Cells
A Follow up on the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Breakthrough
As a matter of clarification, the technology under discussion generates hydrogen from water. It is not a fuel cell. For this reason, the title “Hydrogen Production Breakthrough” better reflects the…
Breakthrough Microbattery Charges 1,000 Times Faster than Competing Technology
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) have announced their new Microbatteries that out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new applications in radio communications and…
How Long Should a Lithium Ion Battery Survive in an EV?
Mikael G. Cugnet, Ph.D. spoke on the question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles (EVs) using lithium-ion batteries: How long before the…
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Breakthrough?
Monday, April 9, 2013, I will be attending a private demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell using catalytic carbon for producing hydrogen-for-fuel. This is the world’s first scalable Hydrogen-On-Demand process…
Was Senator Matsunaga Right About Hydrogen After All?
For those unaware, former U.S. Senator from Hawaii and visionary Spark Masayuki Matsunaga spent 28 years in Congress and passed away on April 15, 1990. Spark was instrumental in passing…
Suzuki Starts Production of Hydrogen Cell Car Battery
It was only a year ago that Suzuki Motor Corporation (7269:JP) started a joint venture to develop hydrogen fuel-cell systems for vehicles, and now it’s starting production. In…
Lithium Ion Batteries Causing Big Problems for Aviation Industry
No Boeing 787 Dreamliners have crashed or burned to the ground, but lithium ion technology is back in the news with a vengeance. The lithium ion batteries that are used…
Should we be Concerned about EV Batteries?
With all the problems with Boeing’s Dreamliner 787 lithium-ion batteries, it’s fair to question the performance and safety of EVs Li-ion batteries. For the uninformed, regulators around the world joined…
New Charging Algorithm can Extend Battery Life for Electric Vehicles
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Increasing the Efficiency of Platinum Use in Fuel Cells
Fuel cells are, for some, the nirvana of portable or mobile energy production. But the problem of a catalyst that tears the hydrogen atom into the parts needed to generate…
Revolutionary Improvement Increases Lithium Ion Battery Capacity by 300%
California Lithium Battery (CLB), a finalist in Department of Energy’s 2012 Start Up America’s Next Top Energy Innovator challenge, has announced the record-setting performance of its new lithium…
New Fuel Cell Catalyst Offers Very Cheap Alternative to Platinum
A new, inexpensive catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells could put platinum out of business, say researchers who’ve developed an alternative out of cobalt, graphene, and cobalt-oxide.Brown University chemist…
Why Electric Cars Don’t have a Future
A controversy has broken out over what it costs General Motors (GM) to produce a Chevy Volt. A Reuters reporter got things going when he claimed that GM is…
Plug In or Get Lost: Forcing a Shift to Alternative Cars
A new ruling requires US automakers to more than double average fuel economy by 2025 in a move that will push up prices for cars but more than offset the…
New Microbial Fuel Cell can Produce Electricity from Waste Water
Wastewater, more commonly thought of as sewage or gray water is estimated to use 3% of the electrical energy consumed in the United States and other developed countries.Engineers…
Promising Discoveries made in Fuel Cell Research
Ballard Power Systems, a Vancouver British Columbia, Canada based fuel cell manufacturer is flirting with becoming profitable. The enthusiasm surrounding fuel cells has been the roller coaster ride of the…
New Battery to Revolutionise the EV Market
The biggest obstacles to mass production of electric vehicles and their popularity amongst the public are the cost, the range and their safety in collisions. All these obstacles are heavily…
Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Not Long to Wait Now
Fuel cells are one of those technologies we have covered before, usually citing some manufacturer who is fan-faring a new technology purported to be game-changing for the cost structure of…
Continued Advances in Fuel Cell Technology
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Reducing the Cost of Fuel Cells
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