Briefly Noted: National Gov’s Clean Energy Initiative The National Governors Association (NGA) last month committed itself to promoting clean energy policies across the United States by launching the “Securing a Clean Energy Future” initiative.
Briefly Noted: PolyFuel Mountain View, CA-based PolyFuel developer of direct methanol fuel cell membranes for portable electronics, says it has developed a stack capable of delivering 500 Watts per liter of stack volume, an output level that the company says is twice what’s needed for a typical laptop.
Briefly Noted: Linde Liquefier The Linde Group, the Munich-based industrial gas technology company, has officially started operations of its second hydrogen liquefaction.
Briefly Noted: Defense Agency/Air Products The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has contracted with Air Products for an indoor hydrogen fueling station for its research and development program.
Briefly Noted: Plug Power/Ballard DoD Contract Plug Power, Inc., Latham, NY and Ballard Power Systems, Inc., Vancouver, have been awarded a joint $3.5 million contract by the U.S. Defense Department to collaborate on the next phase of fuel cell systems development.
Briefly Noted: DoE/Fuel Cell Store The U.S. Energy Department has awarded Boulder, CO-based Fuel Cell Store, the sole contract worth $138,000 to provide hydrogen fuel cell kits and technical support for the 2007 DoE National Science Bowl.
Briefly Noted: Heliocentris Heliocentris Fuel Cells AG, the Berlin-based maker of educational fuel cell products, has teamed up with SMA Technologie AG, a German maker of photovoltaic inverters, in designing a fuel cell backup system for PV installations.
Briefly Noted: Hydrogen Engine Center/Belliss Hydrogen Engine Center, Inc. (HEC), the Algona, IA-based designer and manufacturer of hydrogen-fueled i.c. engines and distributed power generation equipment, has signed a memorandum of understanding with India’s Belliss India Limited, New Delhi, to sell and service its engines and power equipment.
