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Briefly Noted: Carbon Offsets, Cap-and-Trade No Help in Climate Change
Carbon offsets and Obama’s cap-and-trade may not prevent climate change: Schemes such as the United Nations-designed Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under which buyers who need to offset their emissions by purchasing carbon credits from developing nations may not work, says the Dallas, TX-based National Center For Policy Analysis (NCPA).

Briefly Noted: Climate Change Likely to be More Devastating than Predicted
More bad news: a top IPCC scientist warns climate change likely to be more devastating that experts previously predicted.

Briefly Noted: Funding for UK Re-usable Space Plane
UK aerospace developer gets European funding towards a reusable space plane.

Briefly Noted: Final DOT Rules for Fuel Cells on Airplanes
U.S. Transportation Department issues final rule permitting fuel cells on aircraft.

Briefly Noted: China Rebates for Fuel Cell Buses
China is offering sizeable cash rebates for fuel cell and other alternative fuel vehicles.

Briefly Noted: Hydrogen Fuel Knowledge “Dashboard”
Semantic search and knowledge discovery software developer Collexis Holdings, Inc. is launching what it calls the world’s first Hydrogen Fuel Knowledge Dashboard.

Briefly Noted: USC Scoreboard Fuel Cell
More fuel cell power at USC: A 5 kW PEM fuel cell donated to the University of South Carolina will help light up the scoreboard of the university’s new Carolina Baseball Stadium.

Briefly Noted: Chinese Fuel Cell VWs for CAFCP

Briefly Noted: New UltraCell Ultracompact Methanol Fuel Cell
Livermore, CA-based UltraCell Corp. has announced what it describes as the industry’s first ultra-compact reformed methanol portable fuel cell, XX55TM.

Briefly Noted: German Wind Research Institute
A new institute for wind energy research.

Briefly Noted: Dutch-German Fuel Cell Bus
Fuel cells across Europe’s borders.

Briefly Noted: SFCs JENNY Portable Fuel Cell
Another portable fuel cell.

Briefly Noted: Long Island H2 Station
Long Island, NY gets its first hydrogen station.