April 2005   Vol. XX   No. 4   ISSN 1080-8019
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Briefly Noted: New Hydrogen Bills
Three new hydrogen and fuel cell infrastructure bills were introduced in the U.S. Congress in mid-March.

Briefly Noted: Vermont Fueling Station
A Hydrogen Station for the Green Mountain State.

Briefly Noted: Nokia Plans
Finnish cell phone maker Nokia is giving up on tiny fuel cells for cell phones - for the time being at least.

Briefly Noted: DoE Hydrogen Website
The U.S. Energy Department has a new website for its hydrogen program.

Briefly Noted: Storage Research
New approaches to hydrogen storage technologies were prominently on the agenda of the March 21-25 meeting of the American Physical Society in Los Angeles.

Briefly Noted: Fuel Cell Bike
Britain’s Intelligent Energy company has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first purpose-built fuel cell bike.

Briefly Noted: California Fuel Cell Buses
More fuel cell buses for California.

Briefly Noted: FuelCell Energy/Pepperidge Farms
Another fuel cell plant from FuelCell Energy, Inc.

Briefly Noted: Nuvera/Deere & Co.
Nuvera Fuel Cells, Inc., of Milan, Italy and Cambridge, MA, says it has sold a 5.5 kW H2e™ fuel cell power module to agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company.

Briefly Noted: Entegris/Mykrolis Linkup
Entegris, Inc., a Chaska, MN-based maker of bipolar and monopolar fuel cell plates, is merging with Mykrolis Corp., Billerica, MA, a global leader in materials integrity management.

Briefly Noted: U.S. Fuel Cell Council
The U.S. Fuel Cell Council (USFCC) has started an effort to develop data reporting guidelines and standardized testing procedures for a range of commonly employed solid oxide fuel cell test configurations.

Briefly Noted: Nissan Fuel Cell Testing
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has begun road testing of its in-house designed new fuel cell stack and high-pressure hydrogen system.

Briefly Noted: Hydrogen wins Stymie Handicap
And finally, a headline from our It’s-Just-Another-Horserace-Dep’t: “Hydrogen wins Stymie Handicap in first start of year.”