Democratic Front Runner Kerry Backs H2 From Renewables, Also From Coal, Nukes WASHINGTON, DC - If elected president, Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary winner John Kerry would create a Hydrogen Institute that would bring together leading scientists and policy advisors to best advance the potential of hydrogen, according to a survey by the Washington-based Sustainable Energy Coalition released last month.
National Research Council Releases Massive H2 Economy & DoE H2 Program Review WASHINGTON, DC - Mixing low-key criticism of the U.S. Energy Department’s hydrogen and fuel cell program with praise, the long-awaited, massive assessment of a Hydrogen Economy by the National Research Council of the National Academies was released this month.
Millennium Cell Extends Borohydride Cooperation with France’s Peugeot Citroen EATONTOWN, NJ/PARIS - Millennium Cell, Inc., the developer of sodium borohydride-based on-board hydrogen storage systems, and French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen are extending their two-year-old cooperation to further improve its trademarked Hydrogen on Demand storage technologies, Millennium Cell announced.
PolyFuel Rolls Out Its First DMFC- Specific Membrane for Portables MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - PolyFuel, the 4-year-old start up developer here of advanced fuel cell membranes specifically for direct methanol fuel cells for portable devices, last month officially announced its first offering, its PolyFuel DMFC membrane.
Research: U-Mass Researchers Report Novel Solar Electrolysis Process with 30% Efficiency BOSTON, MA - Harnessing the heat properties of solar radiation in addition to utilizing solar energy’s electrochemical properties, scientists at the University of Massachusetts here have devised an electrolysis technique that they say doubles previously known efficiencies of sun-driven water splitting.
Briefly Noted: Abraham in Tokyo Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham during a four-nation swing through Asia, called on Tokyo for closer cooperation between Japan and the United States in both nuclear and hydrogen energy
Briefly Noted: European Platform launched last month what’s called the “European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology” Platform. While it’s not quite clear what is meant by the term “platform”
Briefly Noted: Russian SOFC Russia’s first power system based on a natural gas-fueled solid oxide fuel cell has been tested in the All-Russia Research Institute of Technical Physics
Briefly Noted: Kettering Fuel Cell Center Kettering University, Flint, MI will construct an 8,600 sq. ft. Center for Fuel Cell Systems and Powertrain Integration on its campus
Briefly Noted: HaveBlue/Texas Ovonic HaveBlue LLC, a developer of technology that produces hydrogen from seawater via renewable energy sources, says it has reached an agreement with Texaco Ovonic Hydrogen Systems LLC, Rochester Hills, MI under which the Michigan company will provide development-stage metal hydride hydrogen storage systems
Briefly Noted: Sensor Products has introduced Tactilus, an electronic tactile force and pressure mapping sensor suitable for fuel cells.
Briefly Noted: Power and Energy develop a novel low cost membrane for hydrogen recovery from fuel cell reformates. The company says it plans to manufacture high efficiency palladium alloy thin film membranes, based on nanostructures to efficiently generate high-purity hydrogen from any fuel source
Events The “International German Hydrogen Energy Congress 2004" will be held Feb. 11-12 at the Fair Grounds, Essen, Germany
Transitions Fred Vansconcelos, Charles Stone, Fred Plett, Jim Sturek, Hal Koyama, George Petty, Peter Smith, Douglas DuFaux, Michael Gallagher, Elaine Wong
Correction The e-mail address for Dr. Michael Skelly
