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=====Connecting the renewable energy to green mobility using Hydrogen as energy carrier under the Belenos Clean power Initiative=====
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Belenos Clean Power Ltd, created by Nicolas G. Hayek, with the participation of Group-e (electricity services), Deutsche Bank and other important players is one of the first integrated concepts for green mobility powered by sun energy; the energy carrier is chemical: hydrogen.
The basic concept, is the global decentralized production of hydrogen and oxygen coupled to renewable energy sources (solar cells to home based electrolyser to storage unit to fuel cell) by making fuel production at home possible and competitive. To achieve the commercial exploitation of the overall concept, considerably steps, both in science and engineering are needed. This project has a double role:
To address key underlying issues
* Adequate membranes for the fuel cells,
* Gas (H2/O2) storage means, using composite lining,
* Design, simulation and setting up a home unit controlling gas flows, from production to storage to usage, Communication system,
To play the role of federator between the new developments and the running specific developments, as for instance gas sensors, already addressed in ad-hoc CTI project
The federating line of the project is the overall Belenos concept and the strong industrial willing and Swiss academic excellence to create value for the society, the environment and the economy.
This concept will be developed for optimal use of hydrogen. A substantial synergy of all developments needed is created within the Belenos Clean Power Holding.
The intelligence of the system for this overall hydrogen chain will be developed within the Home Control Unit based on the high-tech electronics and software development experience accumulated in Switzerland within the past decade. The main functions of this unit are the control of the local electric system, the hydrogen system and the communication between the various components to enable optimized hydrogen production and storage.
Safety related to hydrogen storage in a car or at home is a key topic. New microscopic composite materials will be developed to guarantee a high pressure gas storage system.
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**[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#News News]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Cool Cooling Systems]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Mem Memory]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Proc Processor]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Data Data Center]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Ref References]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#See See Also]]
**
**==={{color text="NEWS" c="#000000"}}""""===**
===COOLING SYSTEM""""===
=== ""Tessera"": A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind===
**{[[http://www.tessera.com/ Tessera]]/ [[http://www.tessera.com/abouttessera/executiveteam/Pages/robertyung.aspx Robert Yung]]}**
So-called ionic-cooling systems have been demonstrated in research labs before, but now Tessera, an international chip-packaging company based in San Jose, CA, has demonstrated an ionic-cooling system integrated into a working laptop.
The system can extract roughly 30 percent more heat from a laptop than a conventional fan can, and lab tests show that it could potentially consume only half as much power, the company says. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22668/?a=f 1]]]**
=== ""IBM Zurich"": Computer Clusters That Heat Houses, a novel water-cooling system makes it more efficient for computers to heat buildings.===
**{[[http://www.zurich.ibm.com/ IBM Zurich Research Lab]]/ Bruno Michel, Manager of Advanced Thermal Packaging}**
Thanks to a novel on-chip water-cooling system developed by the company, the thermal energy from a cluster of computer processors can be efficiently recycled to provide hot water for an office, says Bruno Michel, manager of advanced thermal packaging at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, in Switzerland. The goal, he says, is to improve the energy efficiency of large computing clusters and reduce their environmental impact.
A novel network of microfluidic capillaries inside a heat sink is attached to the surface of each chip in the computer cluster, which allows water to be piped to within microns of the semiconductor material itself. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22917/ 2]]]**
=== ""RTI"": Cooling Chips with Thermoelectrics, Researchers have made ultrathin refrigerators for microprocessors.===
**{[[http://www.rti.org/ RTI]]/ Rama Venkatasubramanian, Senior Research Director}**,
Now researchers at **Intel, RTI International of North Carolina, and Arizona State University** have shown that it's possible to build an efficient microrefrigerator that can target hot spots on chips, saving power and space, and more effectively cooling the entire system. Their work also demonstrates, for the first time, that it is possible to integrate thermoelectric material into chip packaging, making the technology more practical than ever before.**[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22016/?a=f 3]]]**
=== ""Icetope"": Put Your Servers In a Bath to Cut Cooling Costs to Almost Nothing.===
**{[[http://www.iceotope.co.uk/ Icetope]]/ Dan Chester, CEO}**,
At the Supercomputing 2009 conferencing this week, Iceotope unveiled a new technology to allow servers to be cooled by immersion in water, a new design that the company estimates could cut energy used to cool data centers by as much as 93 percent.
Iceotope calls the technology an "end-to-end liquid" approach to cooling, bringing a synthetic coolant directly to individual servers, immersing the entire compartment called a cooling module. **[[[http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2009/11/17/put-your-servers-bath-cut-cooling-costs-almost-nothing 4]]]**
**===MEMORY""""===**
=== ""Numonyx"": Intel and STMicroelectronics have formed a joint venture that plans to commercialize phase-change memory.===
**{[[http://www.numonyx.com Numonyx]]/ Brian Harrison, CEO}**,
In the near term, phase-change memory could replace the expensive and energy-consuming random access memory in cell phones, and in a few more years, it could potentially become a cost-effective alternative to flash. A customer who uses a phone with phase-change memory might notice extended battery life, said Harrison. "Intel and STMicroelectronics have been working [together] on phase-change memory for more than five years," he said. "We have a product today that we are sampling, and expect to bring it to market this year. I believe it will be one to two years before it becomes widely available." Brian Harrison, CEO of Numonyx, said that phase-change memory has all the benefits of NOR and NAND flash technologies. (NOR is used in cell phones to execute code, and NAND has been used as a storage memory.) **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/20148/?a=f 5]]]**
=== ""U. of Tokyo"": Cheap, Plastic Memory for Flexible Devices; A new type of flash could be used in e-readers.===
**{[[http://www.ntech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.en.htm University of Tokyo, Department of Applied Physics ]]/ [[http://www.ntech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/About_us/About_us_members/Someya_CV/Someya_CV_en.html Prof. Takao Someya]]}**,
Cheap and plastic aren't words often associated with cutting-edge technology. But researchers in Tokyo have created a new kind of plastic low-cost flash memory that could find its way into novel flexible electronics. The prototype plastic flash memory cannot match silicon's storage density, long-term stability, or number of rewrite cycles. But its low cost could make it possible to integrate flash memory into more unconventional electronics. For example, cheap plastic memory devices might be incorporated into e-paper or disposable sensor tags. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24148/ 6]]]**
=== ""NUS"": A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory: Graphene could make computer hard drives denser and speedier.===
**{[[http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore, Dept of Physics]]/ [[http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~barbaros/ Barbaros Özyilmaz ]]}**,
Cheap and plastic aren't words often associated with cutting-edge technology. But researchers in Tokyo have created a new kind of plastic low-cost flash memory that could find its way into novel flexible electronics. The prototype plastic flash memory cannot match silicon's storage density, long-term stability, or number of rewrite cycles. But its low cost could make it possible to integrate flash memory into more unconventional electronics. For example, cheap plastic memory devices might be incorporated into e-paper or disposable sensor tags. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22377/ 7]]]**

=== ""IBM"": Racetrack Memory, Stuart Parkin is using nanowires to create an ultradense memory chip===
**{[[http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]]/ Stuart Parkin}**,
Both magnetic disk drives and existing solid-state memory technologies are essentially two-dimensional, Parkin says, relying on a single layer of either magnetic bits or transistors. "Both of these technologies have evolved over the last 50 years, but they've done it by scaling the devices smaller and smaller or developing new means of accessing bits," he says. Parki¬n sees both technologies reaching their size limits in the coming decades. "Our idea is totally different from any memory that's ever been made," he says, "because it's three-dimensional." The key is an array of U-shaped magnetic nanowires, arranged vertically like trees in a forest. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22115/ 8]]]**

=== ""U. of California & U. of Massachusetts"": A New Route to Terabit Memory, Polymers that arrange into nanostructures could store terabits on a square inch.===
**{[[http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/ U. of California, Berkeley, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering]] / [[http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/groups/xu/index.htm Dr. Ting Xu]]}, {[[http://www.pse.umass.edu/ U. of Massachusetts Amherst, Polymer Science & Engineering]] / [[http://www.pse.umass.edu/trussell/ Prof. Thomas Russell]]}**,
The self-assembling of materials known as block copolymers could provide a low-cost, efficient way to fabricate ultra-high-density computer memory. Block copolymers, which are made of chemically different polymers linked together, can arrange themselves into arrays of nanoscale dots on surfaces, which could be used as templates for creating tiny magnetic bits that store data on hard disks. Until now, though, there was no simple, quick way to coax the block copolymer to make the desired arrays over large areas. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22209/page1/ 9]]]**
===PROCESSOR""""===
The microchip industry and research community is always hunting for ways to make electronics more energy efficient, and it was prompted to rethink the fundamental design aspect of microprocessors.
=== ""Intel"": Release of a green processors.===
**{[[http://www.intel.com/ Intel]]}**,
The new chips takes advantage of Intel's unique 45 nanometer manufacturing capabilities and reinvented transistor formula that combine to boost performance and reduce power consumption in data centers, Intel said in a press release. **[[[http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/229990/intel-releases-green-processors.htm 10]]]**
=== ""U. of Michigan"": A Picowatt Processor, A low-power chip could be used for implantable medical sensors.===
**{[[http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/ U. Michigan, VSLI]] / [[http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/people.php?u=professor David Blaauw]]}**,
Now researchers at the University of Michigan have made a processor that takes up just one millimeter square and whose power consumption is so low that emerging thin-film batteries of the same size could power it for 10 years or more, says David Blaauw, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Michigan and one of the lead researchers on the project.
But when this processor, dubbed the Phoenix, is coupled with a battery, the whole package would only be a cubic millimeter in volume. At this scale, Blaauw says, it could be feasible to build the chip into a thick contact lens and use it to monitor pressure in the eye, which would be useful for glaucoma detection. It could also be implanted under the skin to sense glucose levels in subcutaneous fluid.**[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21046/?a=f 12]]]**

===GREEN DATA CENTER""""===
=== ""IBM"": Project Big Green===
**{[[http://www.ibm.com IBM]] / Steve Sams}**,
Project Big Green is a $1 billion investment to dramatically increase the efficiency of IBM products. New IBM products and services, announced as part of Project Big Green, include a five step approach to energy efficiency in the data center that, if followed, will sharply reduce data center energy consumption and transform clients' technology infrastructure into “green” data centers, with energy savings of approximately 42 percent for an average data center.**[[[http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss 11]]]**

==={{color text="REFERENCES" c="#000000"}}""""===
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22668/?a=f
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22917/
3. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22016/?a=f
4. http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2009/11/17/put-your-servers-bath-cut-cooling-costs-almost-nothing
5. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/20148/?a=f
6. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24148/
7. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22377/
8. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22115/
9. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22209/page1/
10. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/229990/intel-releases-green-processors.htm
11. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss
12. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21046/?a=f
==={{color text="SEE ALSO" c="#000000"}}""""===

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**==={{color text="CONTENT" c="#000000"}}===**
**[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#News News]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Cool Cooling Systems]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Mem Memory]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Proc Processor]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Data Data Center]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#Ref References]]
[[http://www.nano-tera.ch/nanoterawiki/GreenComputing#See See Also]]
**
**==={{color text="NEWS" c="#000000"}}""""===**
===COOLING SYSTEM""""===
=== ""Tessera"": A Laptop Cooled with Ionic Wind===
**{[[http://www.tessera.com/ Tessera]]/ [[http://www.tessera.com/abouttessera/executiveteam/Pages/robertyung.aspx Robert Yung]]}**
So-called ionic-cooling systems have been demonstrated in research labs before, but now Tessera, an international chip-packaging company based in San Jose, CA, has demonstrated an ionic-cooling system integrated into a working laptop.
The system can extract roughly 30 percent more heat from a laptop than a conventional fan can, and lab tests show that it could potentially consume only half as much power, the company says. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22668/?a=f 1]]]**
=== ""IBM Zurich"": Computer Clusters That Heat Houses, a novel water-cooling system makes it more efficient for computers to heat buildings.===
**{[[http://www.zurich.ibm.com/ IBM Zurich Research Lab]]/ Bruno Michel, Manager of Advanced Thermal Packaging}**
Thanks to a novel on-chip water-cooling system developed by the company, the thermal energy from a cluster of computer processors can be efficiently recycled to provide hot water for an office, says Bruno Michel, manager of advanced thermal packaging at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, in Switzerland. The goal, he says, is to improve the energy efficiency of large computing clusters and reduce their environmental impact.
A novel network of microfluidic capillaries inside a heat sink is attached to the surface of each chip in the computer cluster, which allows water to be piped to within microns of the semiconductor material itself. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22917/ 2]]]**
=== ""RTI"": Cooling Chips with Thermoelectrics, Researchers have made ultrathin refrigerators for microprocessors.===
**{[[http://www.rti.org/ RTI]]/ Rama Venkatasubramanian, Senior Research Director}**,
Now researchers at **Intel, RTI International of North Carolina, and Arizona State University** have shown that it's possible to build an efficient microrefrigerator that can target hot spots on chips, saving power and space, and more effectively cooling the entire system. Their work also demonstrates, for the first time, that it is possible to integrate thermoelectric material into chip packaging, making the technology more practical than ever before.**[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22016/?a=f 3]]]**
=== ""Icetope"": Put Your Servers In a Bath to Cut Cooling Costs to Almost Nothing.===
**{[[http://www.iceotope.co.uk/ Icetope]]/ Dan Chester, CEO}**,
At the Supercomputing 2009 conferencing this week, Iceotope unveiled a new technology to allow servers to be cooled by immersion in water, a new design that the company estimates could cut energy used to cool data centers by as much as 93 percent.
Iceotope calls the technology an "end-to-end liquid" approach to cooling, bringing a synthetic coolant directly to individual servers, immersing the entire compartment called a cooling module. **[[[http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2009/11/17/put-your-servers-bath-cut-cooling-costs-almost-nothing 4]]]**
**===MEMORY""""===**
=== ""Numonyx"": Intel and STMicroelectronics have formed a joint venture that plans to commercialize phase-change memory.===
**{[[http://www.numonyx.com Numonyx]]/ Brian Harrison, CEO}**,
In the near term, phase-change memory could replace the expensive and energy-consuming random access memory in cell phones, and in a few more years, it could potentially become a cost-effective alternative to flash. A customer who uses a phone with phase-change memory might notice extended battery life, said Harrison. "Intel and STMicroelectronics have been working [together] on phase-change memory for more than five years," he said. "We have a product today that we are sampling, and expect to bring it to market this year. I believe it will be one to two years before it becomes widely available." Brian Harrison, CEO of Numonyx, said that phase-change memory has all the benefits of NOR and NAND flash technologies. (NOR is used in cell phones to execute code, and NAND has been used as a storage memory.) **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/20148/?a=f 5]]]**
=== ""U. of Tokyo"": Cheap, Plastic Memory for Flexible Devices; A new type of flash could be used in e-readers.===
**{[[http://www.ntech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.en.htm University of Tokyo, Department of Applied Physics ]]/ [[http://www.ntech.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/About_us/About_us_members/Someya_CV/Someya_CV_en.html Prof. Takao Someya]]}**,
Cheap and plastic aren't words often associated with cutting-edge technology. But researchers in Tokyo have created a new kind of plastic low-cost flash memory that could find its way into novel flexible electronics. The prototype plastic flash memory cannot match silicon's storage density, long-term stability, or number of rewrite cycles. But its low cost could make it possible to integrate flash memory into more unconventional electronics. For example, cheap plastic memory devices might be incorporated into e-paper or disposable sensor tags. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24148/ 6]]]**
=== ""NUS"": A Step Toward Superfast Carbon Memory: Graphene could make computer hard drives denser and speedier.===
**{[[http://www.physics.nus.edu.sg/ National University of Singapore, Dept of Physics]]/ [[http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~barbaros/ Barbaros Özyilmaz ]]}**,
Cheap and plastic aren't words often associated with cutting-edge technology. But researchers in Tokyo have created a new kind of plastic low-cost flash memory that could find its way into novel flexible electronics. The prototype plastic flash memory cannot match silicon's storage density, long-term stability, or number of rewrite cycles. But its low cost could make it possible to integrate flash memory into more unconventional electronics. For example, cheap plastic memory devices might be incorporated into e-paper or disposable sensor tags. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22377/ 7]]]**

=== ""IBM"": Racetrack Memory, Stuart Parkin is using nanowires to create an ultradense memory chip===
**{[[http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]]/ Stuart Parkin}**,
Both magnetic disk drives and existing solid-state memory technologies are essentially two-dimensional, Parkin says, relying on a single layer of either magnetic bits or transistors. "Both of these technologies have evolved over the last 50 years, but they've done it by scaling the devices smaller and smaller or developing new means of accessing bits," he says. Parki¬n sees both technologies reaching their size limits in the coming decades. "Our idea is totally different from any memory that's ever been made," he says, "because it's three-dimensional." The key is an array of U-shaped magnetic nanowires, arranged vertically like trees in a forest. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22115/ 8]]]**

=== ""U. of California & U. of Massachusetts"": A New Route to Terabit Memory, Polymers that arrange into nanostructures could store terabits on a square inch.===
**{[[http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/ U. of California, Berkeley, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering]] / [[http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/groups/xu/index.htm Dr. Ting Xu]]}, {[[http://www.pse.umass.edu/ U. of Massachusetts Amherst, Polymer Science & Engineering]] / [[http://www.pse.umass.edu/trussell/ Prof. Thomas Russell]]}**,
The self-assembling of materials known as block copolymers could provide a low-cost, efficient way to fabricate ultra-high-density computer memory. Block copolymers, which are made of chemically different polymers linked together, can arrange themselves into arrays of nanoscale dots on surfaces, which could be used as templates for creating tiny magnetic bits that store data on hard disks. Until now, though, there was no simple, quick way to coax the block copolymer to make the desired arrays over large areas. **[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22209/page1/ 9]]]**
===PROCESSOR""""===
The microchip industry and research community is always hunting for ways to make electronics more energy efficient, and it was prompted to rethink the fundamental design aspect of microprocessors.
=== ""Intel"": Release of a green processors.===
**{[[http://www.intel.com/ Intel]]}**,
The new chips takes advantage of Intel's unique 45 nanometer manufacturing capabilities and reinvented transistor formula that combine to boost performance and reduce power consumption in data centers, Intel said in a press release. **[[[http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/229990/intel-releases-green-processors.htm 10]]]**
=== ""U. of Michigan"": A Picowatt Processor, A low-power chip could be used for implantable medical sensors.===
**{[[http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/ U. Michigan, VSLI]] / [[http://blaauw.eecs.umich.edu/people.php?u=professor David Blaauw]]}**,
Now researchers at the University of Michigan have made a processor that takes up just one millimeter square and whose power consumption is so low that emerging thin-film batteries of the same size could power it for 10 years or more, says David Blaauw, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Michigan and one of the lead researchers on the project.
But when this processor, dubbed the Phoenix, is coupled with a battery, the whole package would only be a cubic millimeter in volume. At this scale, Blaauw says, it could be feasible to build the chip into a thick contact lens and use it to monitor pressure in the eye, which would be useful for glaucoma detection. It could also be implanted under the skin to sense glucose levels in subcutaneous fluid.**[[[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21046/?a=f 12]]]**

===GREEN DATA CENTER""""===
=== ""IBM"": Project Big Green===
**{[[http://www.ibm.com IBM]] / Steve Sams}**,
Project Big Green is a $1 billion investment to dramatically increase the efficiency of IBM products. New IBM products and services, announced as part of Project Big Green, include a five step approach to energy efficiency in the data center that, if followed, will sharply reduce data center energy consumption and transform clients' technology infrastructure into “green” data centers, with energy savings of approximately 42 percent for an average data center.**[[[http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss 11]]]**

==={{color text="REFERENCES" c="#000000"}}""""===
1. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22668/?a=f
2. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22917/
3. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22016/?a=f
4. http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2009/11/17/put-your-servers-bath-cut-cooling-costs-almost-nothing
5. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/20148/?a=f
6. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24148/
7. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22377/
8. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22115/
9. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22209/page1/
10. http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/03/31/229990/intel-releases-green-processors.htm
11. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/21440.wss
12. http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21046/?a=f
==={{color text="SEE ALSO" c="#000000"}}""""===
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====GreenPower====
=====Connecting the renewable energy to green mobility using Hydrogen as energy carrier under the Belenos Clean power Initiative=====
{{image url="http://www.nano-tera.ch/images/uploads/411/NanoTera.png" title="text" alt="text"}}
Belenos Clean Power Ltd, created by Nicolas G. Hayek, with the participation of Group-e (electricity services), Deutsche Bank and other important players is one of the first integrated concepts for green mobility powered by sun energy; the energy carrier is chemical: hydrogen.
The basic concept, is the global decentralized production of hydrogen and oxygen coupled to renewable energy sources (solar cells to home based electrolyser to storage unit to fuel cell) by making fuel production at home possible and competitive. To achieve the commercial exploitation of the overall concept, considerably steps, both in science and engineering are needed. This project has a double role:
To address key underlying issues
* Adequate membranes for the fuel cells,
* Gas (H2/O2) storage means, using composite lining,
* Design, simulation and setting up a home unit controlling gas flows, from production to storage to usage, Communication system,
To play the role of federator between the new developments and the running specific developments, as for instance gas sensors, already addressed in ad-hoc CTI project
The federating line of the project is the overall Belenos concept and the strong industrial willing and Swiss academic excellence to create value for the society, the environment and the economy.
This concept will be developed for optimal use of hydrogen. A substantial synergy of all developments needed is created within the Belenos Clean Power Holding.
The intelligence of the system for this overall hydrogen chain will be developed within the Home Control Unit based on the high-tech electronics and software development experience accumulated in Switzerland within the past decade. The main functions of this unit are the control of the local electric system, the hydrogen system and the communication between the various components to enable optimized hydrogen production and storage.
Safety related to hydrogen storage in a car or at home is a key topic. New microscopic composite materials will be developed to guarantee a high pressure gas storage system.
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