Perspective: Criticism, Praise for NRC H2 Economy Study; Media Coverage is Faulted A prestigious national organization - The National Academies/The National Research Council - undertakes a long-gestating, detailed study of a highly charged subject - the Hydrogen Economy - and comes up with a massive document that, in its effort to be evenhanded and encyclopedically inclusive, leaves many dissatisfied, either with the product itself or with the reaction to it.
General Motors & Dow Inaugurate Biggest- Yet PEM Fuel Cell Project FREEPORT, TX - By-product hydrogen moved a step closer as fuel for industrial electricity production with the flip of a switch, activating a General Motors fuel cell at the sprawling Dow chemical complex here last month.
International Consortium Starts 5-Year 1.2 MW Fuel Cell Locomotive Project DENVER, CO - Engineering design work will get underway in a little more than two months for the world's first megawatt-class fuel cell locomotive, a project launched here last year by an international consortium (H&FCL Sept. 03).
U. Minnesota Researchers Develop Alcohol-Based Hydrogen Generator MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL, MN - Take an ordinary automotive fuel injector, add some appropriate catalyst material, attach to a preheated glass tube, and what do you get? Presto, a powerful chemical reactor the length of an ear of corn that turns alcohol into hydrogen.
Japan Now Ahead of U.S. in Fuel Cell Patents, Says 1 of 3 New Surveys LONDON - The United States was by far the world leader in the number of fuel cell patents issued between 1991 and 2000, but since then, Japan has assumed the lead as the number of new filings skyrocketed, a new survey shows.
Honda Claims Cold-Start Breakthrough for Hybrid Fuel Cell FCX TORRANCE, CA - Honda Motor Co., Ltd. reports a successful cold-weather test and demonstration of its FCX hybrid fuel cell vehicle and Honda fuel cell stack in the cold northern island of Hokkaido.
Researchers Devise Double-Duty Fuel Cell: Produce Power and Clean Effluent UNIVERSITY PARK, PA -A team of three environmental engineers at Penn State here have demonstrated a double-duty microbial fuel cell (MFC) that cleans wastewater flushing down the drain while at the same time generating electricity.
