Briefly Noted: Big Investors Tell Congress to Pass Climate Legislation A group of more than 50 big-time institutional investors, asset managers, venture capitalists and others who collectively manage more than $2.3 trillion in assets last month wrote to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell urging them to pass strong national climate legislation.
Briefly Noted: PWC Utilities Survey Given skyrocketing demand for electricity, the focus is on increased generation, transmission and distribution capacity rather than on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) or strategic structuring moves.
Briefly Noted: HydroGen Corp. Layoffs Failure to Launch? HydroGen Corp., the Cleveland, OH-based developer of big phosphoric acid fuel cell systems for power plants, has laid off almost two thirds of its work force.
Briefly Noted: Hybrid Technologies Hybrid Hydrogen Technologies, Inc.(HHT), Pickering, ON says it has sold two of its on-board electrolytic emission control and fuel saving devices, dubbed Hydrogen Fuel Injection (HFI) technology, for installation on two school buses.
Briefly Noted: Akermin Biofuel Cell St. Louis, MO-based Akermin, Inc. has developed and is offering for testing a biofuel cell prototype that employs a stabilized enzyme as a catalyst instead of the conventional platinum at the cathode.
Briefly Noted: Another Fuel Cell Plane Another fuel cell-powered airplane: Germany’s aerospace agency DLR and German sailplane maker Lange Aviation, Zweibruecken, are cooperating in plans to convert one of Lange’s high-performance motor gliders.
Briefly Noted: Toyota Home Fuel Cells Toyota Motor Corp. announced it plans to provide for the third year in a row home-use fuel cell cogeneration units.
