Briefly Noted: Berlin H2 Stations construction started in late November of the second hydrogen fueling station in Germany’s capital Berlin under the umbrella of the nine-member Clean Energy Partnership (CEP)
Briefly Noted: Trittin German environment minister Juergen Trittin called for European legislation that would force automobile manufacturers to reduced average new-vehicle carbon dioxide emissions to 120 grams/kilometer by 2012
Briefly Noted: New Italian H2 Ass'n. Italy has a new hydrogen and fuel cell association: H2IT (Associazione Italiana per l’Idrogeno e Celle Combustibile), headquartered in Milan, held its board meeting Dec. 12
Briefly Noted: Proton Energy development of lightweight unitized regenerative fuel cell technology for unmanned aerial vehicles.
Briefly Noted: PNNL/NASA Collaboration Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH will cooperate in the development of sealing technologies for solid oxide fuel cell stacks
Briefly Noted: UK Wind Energy submit bids for what may be the world’s biggest wind power project yet: some 1,000 wind turbines to be constructed off Britain’s coast, generating between 5.4 and 7.2 gigawatts
Briefly Noted: Astris Energi gearing up to start pilot production of Powerstack (TM) MC 250 fuel cell power module in its facility in Vlasim, Czech Republic.
Briefly Noted: More FC Buses Amsterdam’s transit authority GVB has begun operating three fuel cell DaimlerChrysler Citaro buses on two routes
Briefly Noted: SOFC Forecast worldwide market for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is likely to almost triple to $335 million by 2008 with an average annual growth rate of about 24%
