Briefly Noted: Rolls-Royce/EnerTek Britain’s Rolls-Royce has signed an agreement with a Singaporean consortium, EnerTek, to invest a total of $100 million to develop a commercially viable fuel cell power system.
Briefly Noted: Prince Edward Wind-Hydrogen Plans Canada’s Prince Edward Island Energy Corp. (PEI) is teaming with Mississauga, Ontario-based Hydrogenics Corp. in a Can $10.3 million wind-to-hydrogen village demonstration project. Hydrogenics announced it has signed an agreement with Japan’s Hitachi Zosen Corporation) to develop hydrogen fuel cell-based power products.
Briefly Noted: IBM/Sanyo Micro FC System IBM and Sanyo Electric have unveiled “initial plans” for a prototype micro direct methanol fuel cell system that would be compatible with most current ThinkPad notebooks.
Briefly Noted: PV Forecast Total shipments of photovoltaics modules are expected to almost triple in the next five years at an average annual growth rate of 23.4 %, from 973.1 MW last year to an estimated 2,783.1 MW by 2009, says a new study.
Briefly Noted: H2 Generation via Radiant Energy Transfer A Palo Alto, CA engineer says he has developed a working prototype system that can produce hydrogen at yields greater than 86% and thermal efficiencies greater than 90%, using only power and heat and proprietary catalysts.
Briefly Noted: Dissing Hydrogen Congressional-Pearls-of-Wisdom Dep’t: As reported April 21 by CNN.com, House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA), a key proponent of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, whispered, “This is bulls--t,”.
