STUTTGART – It still isn’t official, but signals are getting stronger that the German Aerospace Center DLR is gearing up for a transatlantic flight with a fuel cell plane, possibly in 2011.

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA – AeroVironment’s unmanned hydrogen i.c.-engined Global Observer plane completed its first one-hour test flight here in early August, the company announced last month.

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 BOSTON, MA – A new catalyst, stitched together from abundant cheap raw materials and replacing pricey platinum, could make inexpensive renewable energy available in developing countries, according to an MIT chemistry researcher.

SAN DIEGO, CA – ISE Corporation, the developer of hybrid and energy storage systems and fuel cell integrator, last month filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

WASHINGTON, DC – Former and current CEOs of major companies, government officials, academics and scientists make up a new Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) announced last month.

 FOLSOM, CA – Altergy Systems, the Folsom-based manufacturer of fuel cell power systems has set up a joint venture with the South African government’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and with Anglo Platinum’s  Platinum Growth Metals Development Fund (PGM) to manufacture and market fuel cells in South Africa and other Sub-Saharan countries.

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* Fleet of 65 Fuel Cell Lift Trucks Starts Operating in Florida:

* New Laboratory for Investigating Hydrogen Embrittlement:

* Fuel Cell Developer Heliocentris Partners with Waste Collection Truck Builder Faun in Hybrid Vehicle:

* One Chicken-and-Egg Problem Solved, Egg Ranch Waste Fuels 1.4 MW Fuel Cell Power Plant:

* Australia’s Ceramic Fuel Cells Wins Sales to Japanese, U.S. Utilities, At Home:

* British Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Organizations Merge: