Briefly Noted: Scandinavian Hydrogen Highway If all goes well, the 15 hydrogen Priuses Norway is acquiring to accelerate its HyNor hydrogen highway, will be able to roam across Scandinavian borders in a few years.
Briefly Noted: Alstom Alstom, the French power generation and transportation conglomerate, is investigating the feasibility of fuel cell-powered streetcars.
Briefly Noted: Solar electricity study Solar-generated electricity - specifically, photovoltaics - is slowly overcoming material constraints and seems set to become a viable alternative as electricity distribution generation systems.
Briefly Noted: BMW/TOTAL German carmaker BMW and the French oil company TOTAL plan to cooperate more closely in launching hydrogen energy technology.
Briefly Noted: 10 MW FuelCell Energy plant They’re getting bigger: FuelCell Energy, Inc. says it has won the go-ahead for pre-development financing for a 10 MW fuel cell power plant.
Briefly Noted: Ansaldo U.S. plans Italy’s Ansaldo Fuel Cells, a Genoa-based manufacturer of molten carbonate fuel cells, plans to launch its products in the United States.
Briefly Noted: Intensys A new Belgian company to develop alkaline fuel cell technology, IntensysTM, was launched last month, the result of a reorganization of E-Vision.
Briefly Noted: Delphi SOFC milestone Delphi Corp., Troy, MI, says it has reached an important milestone in its efforts to bring solid oxide fuel cell technology to market by 2011.
Briefly Noted: Chevron/Georgia Tech Chevron Corp., San Ramon, CA has formed a strategic research alliance with Georgia Tech intended to develop cellulosic biofuels and hydrogen as transportation fuels.
Briefly Noted: Hydrogenics/BOC Hydrogenics Corp., Mississauga, Ontario, has signed an agreement with BOC to provide on-site hydrogen generation plants to the industrial gas company for five years.
