Singapore, September 1 2010, In the first Shell Eco-marathon to take place in Asia, University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) took the first place by achieving an impressive 599km per liter of petrol equivalent, in an extreme energy efficient electric vehicle design that hybridized Horizon’s hydrogen fuel cells with a powerful ultra capacitor. Horizon’s fuel cells also powered Thailand’s first ever hydrogen participation (King Mongtut Institute of Technology) to 3rd place for... Read More
China no longer needs to worry about the U.S. as a serious green technology competitor because the U.S. just left the race. After a year-long impasse, Senate majority leader Harry Reid confirmed on July 22, 2010 that the Democrats would not be able to secure enough votes to pass the American Clean Energy and Security Act and, thus, would abandon any further efforts to do so.
But, in today's globalized economy, rising powers like China are willing and readily able to capitalize on America's... Read More
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn., June 29, 2010 - UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company, today announced it has set durability records for its latest generation transit bus fuel cell system.
A PureMotion® Model 120 fuel cell powerplant aboard an Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) bus operating in the Greater Oakland, California, area has surpassed 7,000 hours in service with the original cell stacks and no cell replacements, and another has exceeded 6,000 hours.
New environmentally friendly store offers exciting new amenities tailored to meetClairemont customer’s unique shopping needs and preferences
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn., August 30, 2010 - A new Albertsons supermarket in the San Diego community of Clairemont will be one of the first in California to generate nearly 90 percent of the electricity it needs with a 400-kilowatt fuel cell from UTC Power, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.
The new 55,000-square-foot environmentally... Read More
On Thursday, the Danbury, Conn.-based company said that it sold two 300-kilowatt machines to Eastern Municipal Water District for use at a wastewater facility in Riverside County, Calif.
There, an anaerobic digester, using microorganisms and heat, will break down biosolids into methane gas, which will be piped into the fuel cells to make electricity. The heat from that process will supplement a gas boiler for the digester, making the overall system more efficient.
FuelCell Energy Inc. has devised a way to extract megawatts from chicken droppings.
The Danbury-based maker of high-efficiency, ultra-clean electricity plants using renewable and other fuels recently sold a 1.4 megawatt fuel-cell power plant to G3 Power Systems Inc. that will convert chicken manure into usable energy. It is being installed at Olivera Egg Ranch LLC in French Camp, Calif.
The installation is the first of several initiatives by FuelCell to convert animal waste into... Read More
Following an initial hour-long, battery-powered flight, AeroVironment’s Global Observer unmanned aircraft is beginning a test program planned to culminate in a week-long flight in the stratosphere using liquid-hydrogen fuel. The flight debuts an innovative approach to persistent surveillance and marks a dramatic departure for a company that dominates the market for small, hand-launched UAVs.
The Global Observer (GO) is flying from Edwards AFB, Calif., where it will undergo an operational... Read More
California has led the nation in solar development on many fronts for a number of years, but there is one area where California has lagged significantly – the implementation of tradable renewable energy certificates (or TRECs).
As of this writing, there are five regional renewable energy tracking systems operating in North America, one national registry and three state systems. As early as June 2007, the California Energy Commission launched the Western Renewable Energy Generation... Read More
Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (AIM/ASX: CFU), a leading developer of high efficiency and low emission electricity generation units for homes and other buildings, will install a BlueGen gas-to-electricity unit with Japan's largest gas utility, Tokyo Gas.
Mitsui & Co. has ordered the BlueGen unit on behalf of Tokyo Gas. The BlueGen unit will be installed and demonstrated by Tokyo Gas at its testing laboratory in Tokyo.
Tokyo Gas is Japan's largest gas utility, serving 10.5 million... Read More
BURNABY, BC, Aug 11, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ballard Power Scores Big
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It's the size of a tractor trailer, it's on wheels and completely transportable, with the capacity to power a small town. And now the world's largest hydrogen fuel cell - one of the world's cleanest and greenest sources of energy - will soon be on its... Read More
BEND, ORE, USA, August 9, 2010 – IdaTech plc (AIM: IDA), a global leader in the development and manufacture of clean and reliable PEM fuel cell products for the critical backup power market is pleased to announce the Phase III roll out of the latest generation hydrogen backup power fuel cell systems on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Lombok. As part of this Phase III roll out, IdaTech received an order for 154 ElectraGen fuel cell systems.
Ceramic Fuel Cell (LON:CFU), the company that makes high efficiency and low emission electricity generation units for homes and other buildings, has sold its first BlueGen generators in the United States to one of the country’s largest energy companies. Ceramic Fuel Cells will install a BlueGen gas-to-electricity generator at the energy utility's engineering centre in California. The unit is scheduled to be installed in September 2010.
You can't squeeze blood from a turnip, and apparently you can't wring water from moon rocks, either. A new analysis of samples returned by the Apollo astronauts suggests that there is virtually no chance that water ever existed beneath the lunar surface.
Scientists have been arguing for decades about whether the moon contains significant quantities of water. Theoretically, it should because the moon was once part of Earth. (It was created by a catastrophic collision between our... Read More
Research on polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) has significantly increased due to the advantage of high energy efficiency combined with no carbon dioxide emissions. The key component of these fuel cells is the proton exchange membrane, which acts as electrolyte to transport protons from anode to cathode. The most common proton conducting polymers are sulfonated perfluoropolymers, such as Nafion,... Read More
BOTHELL, Wash. – August 3, 2010 – NEAH Power Systems, Inc., (OTCBB: NPWZ), www.neahpower.com, the Company developing fuel cell based renewable energy, announced today that it is collaborating with a major US Defense Supplier to explore development of unique power solutions for potential customers. The Defense Supplier is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, homeland security and other government markets throughout the world. With a history of innovation,... Read More
Johannesburg — THE Department of Science and Technology, Anglo Platinum and US fuel cell company Altergy Systems have established a new company to manufacture fuel cells for the sub-Saharan African market.
A fuel cell is a device that converts the chemical energy of a fuel such as hydrogen and an oxidant into electricity. It generates electricity inside the cell through reactions between a fuel and an oxidant.
Most fuel cells use platinum group metals as a catalyst for the conversion... Read More
FuelCell Energy, based in Danbury, sold a 300-kilowatt fuel cell generation plant to power the processing facility of Carla's Pasta in South Windsor.
The plant will be operational in 2011 and provide for 60 percent of the energy needs of Carla's Pasta, which has made frozen pasta and pesto products for 29 years. The purchase of fuel cell power plant was funded in part by a $750,000 grant from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund.
The fuel cell will generate ultra-clean electricity... Read More
Danbury, CT - July 27, 2010 - FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) a leading manufacturer of high efficiency ultra-clean power plants using renewable and other fuels for commercial, industrial, government, and utility customers, today announced the sale of a 300 kilowatt DFC300 fuel cell power plant and five year service contract. LOGANEnergy, a dedicated fuel cell energy services company, will purchase and install the fuel cell power plant at the frozen food processing facility of Carla's... Read More
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada - July 15, 2010 - Hydrogenics Corporation ("Hydrogenics"), a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and fuel cell products, today announced that it has secured orders for electrolyzers with customers in Russia and the Middle East. In Russia, Hydrogenics will supply a large industrial company in the city of Tomsk with a HySTAT unit for the production of light bulbs. The other order, with Siemens AG (NYSE:SI), is for an electrolyzer... Read More
ATHAM, NY and VANCOUVER, July 15, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Mutually exclusive agreement targets North American forklift truck market.
Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, and Ballard Power Systems Inc. (TSX: BLD; NASDAQ: BLDP) announced today that the two companies have extended their existing supply agreement, effective immediately, through 2014. Ballard will remain the exclusive supplier of fuel cell stacks for Plug Power's... Read More
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles promise faster refueling and the ability to travel longer distances before refueling than battery-powered cars, but they are susceptible to poisoning by carbon monoxide (CO). Now, scientists in the US and Japan have created new nanoparticles catalysts that enable hydrogen fuel cells to resist CO poisoning.
Hydrogen fuel cells use platinum electrocatalysts to combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce water and generate electricity.... Read More
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