Briefly Noted: Los Angeles Port Cleanup Alternative fuels and fuel cell applications are expected to be eligible for solicitation bids under the large-scale San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan announced for the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Briefly Noted: New California H2 Stations California’s Air Resources Board has selected three new proposals for building new hydrogen fueling stations in a competitive bidding process. The board also voted to help fund the leasing of seven hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Briefly Noted: Ford H2 Buses Ford Motor company last month kicked off production of its dedicated hydrogen-fueled supercharged 6.8 liter V-10 engines that will power the modified E-450 12-passenger shuttle buses.
Briefly Noted: Airplane Fuel Cartridge Rules Permission to take sodium borohydride-fueled small fuel cell cartridges for laptops and cell phones aboard commercial aircraft has come a step closer with approval of new regulations along these lines by a United Nations commission.
Briefly Noted: EC H2 Vehicle Draft Proposal The European Commission has issued a preliminary draft proposal for a new regulation that would cover hydrogen-powered motor vehicles.
Briefly Noted: Shell Rotterdam Buses Shell Hydrogen and two partners are planning to launch what they say will be the world’s largest hydrogen-fueled bus line system in Rotterdam before the end of the decade.
Briefly Noted: BP/GE H2 Power Plants BP and General Electric plan to team up to build between 10 and 15 hydrogen-fueled power projects over the next decade.
Briefly Noted: New NREL Facility The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) last month inaugurated a new Science and Technology facility in ribbon-cutting ceremonies attended by Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman.
Briefly Noted: Dutch Fuel Cell Car & Scooter Two fuel cell vehicles from Holland: The Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), Petten, has unveiled the first car powered by a Dutch fuel cell system. The car is a modified version of DaimlerChrysler’s GEM.
Briefly Noted: IdaTech Sale In a back-to-basics move, Boise, ID-based Idacorp, Inc., a utilities-based group, has sold its fuel cell subsidiary Idacorp Technologies, Inc. to IdaTech UK which in turn is owned by a British specialty banking group, Investec Group Investments (UK) Limited.
Briefly Noted: Electro-Chem ElectroChem, a pioneering supplier of fuel cell test equipment, says its product line is now available online at FuelCell.com.
Briefly Noted: Synthesis Energy Systems/Hai Hua Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (SES), Houston, TX says it has signed a 50-year agreement with China’s Hai Hua Coal and Chemical Company, Ltd., Shandong, to form a joint venture for building a coal gasification and synthesis gas plant in one of the country’s major coal mining regions.
Briefly Noted: Selenium Fuel Cell New Jersey engineer and inventor Phillip J. Petillo has designed what he says is new fuel cell that employs a membrane coated with selenium.
