Description of Business	9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016
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Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]	Note 1. Description of business Organization Our Company was incorporated in the State of Nevada in 2001, as Neah Power Systems, Inc., and together with its subsidiary, is referred to as the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”. Business We are engaged in the development and sale of renewable energy solutions using our direct methanol micro fuel cell technology, our reformer technology, and our PowerChip® rechargeable battery technology. This allows us to generate hydrogen using our Formira® reformer technology, use that hydrogen, or use methanol directly, using the PowerChip® fuel cell technology, and then store that energy using the PowerChip® battery. Furthermore, the high energy density of the PowerChip battery makes it a very well suited product for consumer and wearable applications, as well as large scale applications. We are developing solutions specifically targeted for the military, transportation vehicles, and portable electronics applications. Our long-lasting, efficient and safe power solutions include devices, such as notebook PCs, military radios, and other power-hungry computer, entertainment and communications products. We use a unique patented, silicon-based design for our micro fuel cells and our PowerChip® battery that create higher power densities and enables lighter-weight, smaller form-factors, and will potentially create more cost effective manufacturing and potentially lower product costs. Our Formira HOD™, a reformer platform for direct on-site generation of hydrogen gas. Customers will be able carry a liquid with a better safety profile and generate hydrogen gas at point of use rather than carrying high pressure hydrogen gas cylinders. The hydrogen is designed to be consumed directly by a fuel cell, using either our PowerChip® silicon based fuel cell, or commercially available proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. We had also build a very low power, compact fuel cell, call the BuzzCell®, for integration with our BuzzBar® Suite, which is a solar, fuel cell, battery hybrid charging solution for consumers. More recently, we used our PowerChip silicon architecture to develop a rechargeable lithium battery, that has demonstrated high energy density, making it a very suitable product for consumer and wearable applications, as well as larger scale applications where the weight and / or the volume is critical, like automotive applications. During the first quarter of our 2015 fiscal year, we shipped five systems to the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of the Government of India, and have built multiple Formira reformer demonstrator units, that we are using for acquisition of customers, and to validate the technology. We have shipped over two hundred BuzzBar® units from our initial low rate initial production (LRIP) , since introduction of the product. The lessons learned from our LRIP production, and feedback on the design, has been incorporated into the design of our next generation product, BuzzBar Gen3. We expect to start manufacturing and shipping BuzzBar Gen 3 on capitalization of the Company. We currently are doing our battery development at a third party facility in Beaverton, OR, and the Company is primarily focused on the battery development at this time. We are using a variety of consultants for business development, who are located worldwide, and who are compensated based on commercial success. We currently operate out of Edmonds, Washington.

Description of Business

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2016

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

Note 1. Description of business

Organization

Our Company was incorporated in the State of Nevada in 2001, as Neah Power Systems, Inc., and together with its subsidiary, is referred to as the “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”.

Business

We are engaged in the development and sale of renewable energy solutions using our direct methanol micro fuel cell technology, our reformer technology, and our PowerChip® rechargeable battery technology. This allows us to generate hydrogen using our Formira® reformer technology, use that hydrogen, or use methanol directly, using the PowerChip® fuel cell technology, and then store that energy using the PowerChip® battery. Furthermore, the high energy density of the PowerChip battery makes it a very well suited product for consumer and wearable applications, as well as large scale applications. We are developing solutions specifically targeted for the military, transportation vehicles, and portable electronics applications. Our long-lasting, efficient and safe power solutions include devices, such as notebook PCs, military radios, and other power-hungry computer, entertainment and communications products. We use a unique patented, silicon-based design for our micro fuel cells and our PowerChip® battery that create higher power densities and enables lighter-weight, smaller form-factors, and will potentially create more cost effective manufacturing and potentially lower product costs.

Our Formira HOD™, a reformer platform for direct on-site generation of hydrogen gas. Customers will be able carry a liquid with a better safety profile and generate hydrogen gas at point of use rather than carrying high pressure hydrogen gas cylinders. The hydrogen is designed to be consumed directly by a fuel cell, using either our PowerChip® silicon based fuel cell, or commercially available proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. We had also build a very low power, compact fuel cell, call the BuzzCell®, for integration with our BuzzBar® Suite, which is a solar, fuel cell, battery hybrid charging solution for consumers. More recently, we used our PowerChip silicon architecture to develop a rechargeable lithium battery, that has demonstrated high energy density, making it a very suitable product for consumer and wearable applications, as well as larger scale applications where the weight and / or the volume is critical, like automotive applications.

During the first quarter of our 2015 fiscal year, we shipped five systems to the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) of the Government of India, and have built multiple Formira reformer demonstrator units, that we are using for acquisition of customers, and to validate the technology. We have shipped over two hundred BuzzBar® units from our initial low rate initial production (LRIP) , since introduction of the product. The lessons learned from our LRIP production, and feedback on the design, has been incorporated into the design of our next generation product, BuzzBar Gen3. We expect to start manufacturing and shipping BuzzBar Gen 3 on capitalization of the Company.

We currently are doing our battery development at a third party facility in Beaverton, OR, and the Company is primarily focused on the battery development at this time. We are using a variety of consultants for business development, who are located worldwide, and who are compensated based on commercial success. We currently operate out of Edmonds, Washington.