PolyFuel Announces Lower-Cost, Higher Output Fuel Cell Membrane Material MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - PolyFuel, the four-year-old startup fuel cell membrane developer here, has unveiled what it calls a breakthrough hydrocarbon-based membrane material early last month that the company says should go a long way toward significantly cutting the, so far, prohibitively high costs of fuel cell power plants.
Big Chinese Turnout, Advanced Swiss, U.S. Concepts Highlight Shanghai Bibendum SHANGHAI - A snappy French-Swiss fuel cell lightweight prototype with a 250-mile range, a Ford hydrogen i.c. engine with lean NOX Trap aftertreatment; Peugeot-Citroen’s quirky Quark, and a futuristic Chinese three-wheeler running on hydrogen peroxide were among the highlights of this year’s Challenge Bibendum, the first time the event was run in Asia.
Silicon-Ammonia Combination is Proposed as Hydrogen Carrier Technology FRANKFURT - A German specialist in inorganic chemistry is proposing an innovative hydrogen energy system in which silicon made from common sand functions as hydrogen energy carrier - a “tailor-made” link between decentralized renewable energy production and a hydrogen infrastructure.
DoE News: DoE Sec’y Abraham Announces $75 Million in Hydrogen R&D Funding WASHINGTON, DC - Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham last month announced the U.S. Energy Department has selected 36 lead organizations and their partners to receive more than $75 million in research projects to support the President’s Hydrogen Fuel Initiative.
Opportunities: R&D Jobs at New Istanbul Center The United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s recently established International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET) in Istanbul, Turkey (H&FCL Dec. 03, April 04), announces the following positions:
Briefly Noted: Large FC System Survey In the latest of its series of surveys, the “Fuel Cell Today” Internet portal says a grand total of slightly more than 700 large stationary fuel cell systems - more than 10 kW - have been installed worldwide since the 1970s.
Briefly Noted: Quantum's "Aggressor" Irvine, CA-based Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide last month unveiled a high-performance, off-road military hybrid fuel cell vehicle, dubbed the “Aggressor.”
Briefly Noted: New Michigan H2 Station Another hydrogen fueling station has opened in Southfield, MI as part of a Hydrogen Technology Park operated by DTE Energy.
Briefly Noted: U.S./UK H2 Exchange Program The United States and Britain are set to fund a joint scientist exchange program specifically to advance the potential of hydrogen energy.
Briefly Noted: Millennium/NASDAQ Millenium Cell Inc., the Eatontown, NJ-based developer of sodium borohydride hydrogen storage technology, has been informed by the Nasdaq exchange that it was not currently in compliance with certain requirements needed for continued listing on the Nasdaq National Market.
Briefly Noted: Solvay Solvay S.A. the Brussels-based international chemical and pharmaceutical group, has joined Conduit Ventures Limited.
Briefly Noted: Glum UK H2 Economy Projection A British economist says changing over every American vehicle to hydrogen power would require so much electricity - presumably for electrolysis - that the United States would have to build enough wind turbines to cover half of California or 1,000 additional nuclear power plants.
Events Arno A. Evers Fair-PR presents “1st Meeting Points - Renewable Energies China, Including Hydrogen + Fuel Cells,” as part of the Shanghai International Industry Fair Nov. 4-9 at Shanghai’s New International Expo Center, Pudong, in cooperation with the P.R. China’s Ministry of Science & Technology.
