Honda, Kia, VW Show H2 Fuel Cell Prototypes, Studies at LA Auto Show LOS ANGELES – While America’s automotive bigwigs got a chilly reception last month in Washington, DC in their quest for taxpayer money to help keep the industry afloat, things looked a lot brighter for clean energy transport at the Los Angeles Auto Show here.
FC Seminar (Cont’d): CEOs See Rough Near Term, But Real Fuel Cell Viability Ahead PHOENIX, AZ – High on the agenda and coming early in this year’s Oct. 27-30 Fuel Cell Seminar here, the CEO Roundtable provided a useful glimpse into the thinking and expectations of the guys on the front line, moderated by EnergyBiz Insider’s Ken Silverstein. This roundtable, in its second year at the Seminar, brought together Gary Flood of ReliOn, Harol Koyama of IdaTech LLC, Henri Winand of Intelligent Energy, and Andy Marsh of Plug Power in the lively hour-and-a-half exchange.
New RPI Anti-Reflective Coating Increases Solar Cell Light Absorption to Near-100% TROY, NY – Solar electricity production has received a potentially huge efficiency boost with the development of a new, radically different type of antireflective coating for solar panels that permits absorption of just about all incoming sunlight.
NIST/School of Mines Team Develops H2-in-Steel Sensor to Fight Embrittlement BOULDER, CO - Shipping energy in form of hydrogen through steel pipelines like natural gas has long been a vision of hydrogen energy advocates, but the problem of hydrogen-caused steel embrittlement has been one of the factors holding back progress.
