Abu Dhabi Commits $15 Billion to Alternative Energy, Launches Hydrogen Power Plant ABU DHABI, UAE - What’s described as the most ambitious government sustainability program ever - $15 billion in initial investments targeting solar, wind and hydrogen power; carbon reduction and management - was unveiled by this Persian Gulf emirate last month.
Chrysler, General Motors Show New Fuel Cell Concept Cars at Detroit Auto Show DETROIT, MI – There were a number of greenish cars with hybrid or other carbonaceous fuel-sipping features on display at the North American International Auto Show here last month, but only two fuel cell concept cars emblematic of things to come, hopefully.
Hydrogen Cell Phone, Recharging Unit Debut at Vegas Consumer Electronics Show LAS VEGAS, NV – Two hydrogen energy products that look closer to commercial reality - a low-power fuel cell recharger and a fuel cell-powered cell phone - than the usual “breakthrough” announcements were on display at the Consumer Electronics Show Jan. 7-10 here.
Briefly Noted: Ballard Automotive Sale is Official It’s official: Ballard Power Systems’ shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the sale of the company’s automotive fuel cell business to Daimler AG and Ford Motor Co.
Briefly Noted: CALSTART Fuel Cell Bus Development Contracts Pasadena, CA-based CALSTART, the advanced transportation technology organization, has helped secure and launch $24 million worth of contracts with the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for five major fuel cell bus development projects.
Briefly Noted: Fuel Cell Commercialization is For Real Now Fuel cell commercialization got underway in earnest last year internationally, reports the UK online news service Fuel Cell Today in its 2008 Industry Review, released at the end of January.
Briefly Noted: HydroGen Corp. Cooperation with Samsung HydroGen Corp., the Cleveland, OH-based developer and builder of 400 kW phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC) power plants, has signed a series of cooperation agreements with Korea’s Samsung Corp.
Briefly Noted: Quantum Buys Into Solar Company and Launches Slick Plug-In Hybrid Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc., the Irvine, CA company best known for compressed gaseous hydrogen storage tanks and metering systems, lithium ion batteries as well as alternative fuel vehicles such as Toyota hybrid Priuses converted to hydrogen, is branching out again.
Briefly Noted: MTI Microfuel Cells Developmental Pilot Line Albany, NY-based MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc. says it has launched its new developmental pilot production as the first “in a number of steps......to further our of manufacturing readiness in 2008.
Briefly Noted: Biofuels Protest and Call for Moratorium Concerned that the widening use of biofuels and agrofuels may contribute to food shortages and not help to alleviate climate problems caused by the burning of fossil fuels, five activist organizations are calling for a moratorium on agrofuels.
Events The next meeting of the “California Hydrogen Business Council” will be held Feb. 1, 2008 at the offices of American Honda Motor Co., Torrance, CA.
H&FCL Editor to Speak at Utah Symposium SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The editor of this newsletter, Peter Hoffmann, is among the invited speakers on the subject of “Alternative Energy: Seeking Climate Change Solutions” March 7-8 at the Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment’s 13th Annual Symposium of the University of Utah’s S. J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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