December 2003

12/31/03 Bush Plans On Global Warming Alter Little Voluntary Programs Attract Few Firms Washington Post
12/31/03 Catching On An Age-Old Power Resource Is Making a Comeback "A recent study by the Department of Energy labeled wind the "fastest-growing energy source in the world." In the three year period from 2000 to 2003, wind power capacity increased a whopping 159 percent in Europe and 87 percent in the United States, according to Standard and Poor's Ratings Services." ABC News
12/31/03 Astris Energi to begin pilot production of alkaline fuel cell POWERSTACK™
12/30/03 Mercedes-Benz F-Cell Makes Fuel Cell Power a Reality UPS Will Be The First Corporate F-Cell Customer In The U.S. Mercedes-Benz
12/29/03 Guest Opinion: Pass energy bill to expand renewable energy in America Montana Forum
12/30/03 SatCon Announces $2.2 Million in New Contracts
12/29/03 AEC Completes $530,000 Private Placement Financing with Institutional Investors Funding to be used for certifying Hydrogen Production System
12/29/03 Column: With power of magic, fuel cells win believers Western Oregon Electric Cooperative The Oregonian
12/28/03 Hitachi, Toshiba Ready Fuel-Cell Attack eWeek
12/29/03 Looking back....: Price cheer for fuel cell car New Straits Times, Malaysia
12/27/03 Solar-hydrogen car crosses nation Sunday Times, Australia
12/27/03 GM fuel guru begins his quest in Arizona "McCormick's goal is to hit showrooms with hydrogen fuel-cell cars by 2010. But in addition to producing the cars, a new fueling infrastructure will be needed. He has a vision for that as well." The Business Journal of Phoenix via MSNBC
12/26/03 Hybrid Electric is Prelude to Auto's Future, says Former GM Chairman Robert Stempel VOA
12/26/03 Solar-powered car crosses Australia The world's first hybrid hydrogen and solar powered car will be shown off in Sydney tomorrow. Daily Telegraph, Australia
12/26/03 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 12/15/03 NASDAQ
12/25/03 Auto, Gas Companies Mull Fuel Cell Technology Fox News
12/25/03 Column: CEO leads a cause vital to Michigan NextEnergy Detroit Free Press
12/25/03 Hydrogen vehicles: US energy dept, M&M in JV Rediff, India
12/25/03 A Christmas Car EV World
12/25/03 Inventor envisions metal (not hydrogen) fuel cell revolution White Plains Journal News
12/22/03 Fuel cells drive cars into clean future "Eco-friendly automobiles driven by hydrogen-powered fuel cells are gaining the attention of the commercial sector on the back of increased consumer awareness of environmental issues." Nikkei
12/22/03 Fuel cell employs thin silicon sheets "A research team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has designed a fuel cell that uses extremely thin sheets of silicon as the electrodes. The adoption of chip-making technologies enables miniaturization and mass production. The device is a direct methanol-type fuel cell made from an electrolyte film sandwiched between two sheets of silicon. The structure is 0.25mm thick. . ." Nikkei
12/24/03 10 technologies to watch in 2004 "Micro fuel cells: Japan's largest wireless phone carrier, NTT DoCoMo, plans to introduce cell phones powered by miniature fuel cells -- which run on hydrogen or methanol -- late next year. Look for them to also show up as expensive add-ons for high-end laptops." CNN
12/23/03 Hydrogen Processing for Fuel Cells Patented "Fuel cell researchers have tried to solve the CO-poisoning problem in several different ways. . ." SolarAccess.com
12/23/03 Toyota visits Los Alamos, Capitol in search of fuel cell research site AP
12/23/03 SatCon Technology Reports FY2003 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results
12/23/03 SatCon Technology Corp. Earnings Call scheduled for 10:00 am ET today
12/22/03 Reinventing the wheel Concept vehicle neither a moped nor a unicycle "No keys, because the machine automatically detects who you are. No stops at the gas station either because this baby runs on electricity and hydrogen fuel cell technology. . . Bombardier Recreational Products Inc." Toronto Star
12/22/03 Going under the sea for 'fire in ice' "Gas hydrate, known as "fire in ice," has stood out in recent years as a clean and bountiful energy supply." China Daily
12/15/03 FuelCon and Illies starting common activities in Asia test equipment
12/22/03 Bibendum Goes To China CARkeys, UK
12/22/03 Polymer group makes buy "Chemsultants Inc., a group of polymer and adhesive production, development and consulting companies based in Mentor, has acquired AvMat Membranes LLC, a two-employee company in Hudson that develops membranes used in fuel cells." Crain's Cleveland Business
12/20/03 Towering turbine project to put Hellgate winds to work for UM "the project will be combined with studies of solar cells and hydrogen electrolizers to find efficient ways of storing alternative-energy supplies" Montana Forum
12/22/03 Hydrogen-Fueled Three-Wheelers Could Make Impact on Developing Nations, U.S. "ECD will carry out the project in cooperation with one of India's largest automobile manufacturers, Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd." US DoE
12/22/03 Interview: MTI MicroFuel Cells CEO William Acker CNNfn (orginally aired 12/10/03)(windows media file)
12/22/03 QuestAir Technologies and Iwatani Corporation announce agreement to market hydrogen purification systems
12/22/03 SatCon Technology to Report FY2003 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Tuesday December 23, 2003 at 10:00 A.M.
12/22/03 MTI to Exchange Options for Eligible Employees and Directors
12/22/03 Fuel Cell Powered Segway™ Photos! Exclusive for h2fc.com by FCTec staff
12/21/03 On the Record: Dave O'Reilly (chief executive and chairman of ChevronTexaco) " I hear a lot about the hydrogen economy. The question is where is the hydrogen going to come from? Hydrogen is going to come from hydrocarbons. It's going to come from natural gas or coal or oil." San Francisco Chronicle
12/21/03 Letter: US automakers turned backs on us "lest we forget, the Bush administration, soon after taking office, ended funding for gas/electric research and production, instead claiming that hydrogen fuel cells were the wave of the future. Perhaps this is true, but hybrid technology is available now" Sarasota Herald-Tribune
12/21/03 OpEd: `Rewiring' the world's energy "Climate change isn't just another issue in this complicated world of proliferating issues. It's the issue that -- unchecked -- will swamp all others. . ." Boston Globe
12/21/03 High Peaks boosts venture fund with $30M from state Microgrid plan proposed for alternative energy group: PLUG, MKTY The Business Review (Albany) via MSNBC
12/19/03 Toyobo Develops Better Electrolyte Membrane For Tiny Fuel Cells "high-performance electrolyte membrane for the types of small fuel cells envisioned for devices like cellular phones.Designed for direct-methanol fuel cells, the new electrolyte membrane is made from a hydrocarbon polymer material that features three times as much sulfone bases as conventional fluorine-based electrolyte membranes. These hydrophilic sulfone bases facilitate the migration of hydrogen ions across the membrane, boosting the energy efficiency of the fuel cell. According to Toyobo, a fuel cell using the new electrolyte membrane is 30% more energy efficient thanks to this design" Nikkei
12/19/03 Kyocera Develops Highly Efficient Home-Use Fuel Cell "home-use solid oxide fuel cell with a power generation efficiency of 54%, which at the 1kw level makes the product about 10 points more effective than cells to date" Nikkei
12/19/03 China to buy environment-friendly buses powered by hydrogen China Daily
12/19/03 Warning: Exploding batteries Safer alternatives on the way promise extended energy "lithium ion in most cases uses cobalt oxide, which has a tendency to undergo 'thermal runaway' . . . fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen to electricity — don't ask me how — are a promising alternative. But fuel cells, according to the experts, cannot handle peak loads, not even the peak load generated in a cell phone. Therefore, the alternative is a fuel cell with battery backup to handle the peaks."
12/19/03 Northrop Grumman, NASA Successfully Test Composite Hydrogen Fuel Tank for Reusable Launch Vehicles "fuel tank made from composite materials can safely hold and contain liquid hydrogen under simulated launch conditions"
12/19/03 Photo: "Japanese Professor Obara (R) of Tamagawa University in Tokyo and Australian solar power pioneer Hans Tholstrup look over the world's first hydrogen fuel cell car, before the vehicle started a continental crossing from Perth to Sydney" Reuters
12/17/03 Shinano Kenshi Co, Ltd developed a new material called "carbon silk" that can be used in fuel cell electrodes Nikkei
12/19/03 Giant wind farms planned off UK coast "1,000 turbines . . . a $12.4 billion project that will create the world’s largest source of wind energy, the government said Thursday. The wind farms, which got preliminary approval on Thursday, would generate as much as 7 gigawatts of electricity, enough to supply 4 million households, and 7 percent of Britain’s total energy needs" NY Times via International Herald Tribune
12/19/03 Buses targetted in war on pollution "China is inviting public bids for six fuel cell buses (FCBs) for a demonstration of emission-free public transport in Beijing and Shanghai. It's part of a US$32 million FCB commercialization project jointly launched last March by the Chinese Government, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)." China Daily
12/18/03 Venture Capitalists are Warming to Fuel Cells Utilipoint IssueAlert
12/18/03 Time Warner Telecom Powers Up Avista Labs Communications With Integrated Voice and Data Solution
12/18/03 Proton Energy Systems Awarded Two Contracts for Regenerative Fuel Cell Development with NASA and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency
12/18/03 Cabot Superior MicroPowders Names Greg Romney General Manager of Electrochemical Materials
12/18/03 Plug Power Begins Commercial GenCore 5T Shipments; Product Is UL Listed and FCC Compliant
12/18/03 Ballard Secures Contract for Three Fuel Cell Bus Engines for Australia
12/18/03 Quantum Fuel Systems Tech Financials EDGAR Online Financials via yahoo
12/17/03 Power & Energy Expands R&D Staff For Fuel Cell Hydrogen Separation Membranes Eworldwire
12/17/03 Made-in-S'pore fuel cell makes waves Business Times Singapore
12/17/03 Alternative fuel enthusiast hopes Schwarzenegger’s promise will propel vehicle conversion The Desert Sun
12/17/03 New process for 'pure' hydrogen E4engineering.com
12/17/03 Green buses come in threes "Britain joined the hydrogen revolution yesterday with a zero emission bus hitting the streets of the capital under a scheme backed by BP and DaimlerChrysler. " Guardian, UK
12/16/03 BOC Commissions Latest U.S. Hydrogen Plant Near CITGO Illinois Refinery Helps CITGO Meet EPA Clean Air/Clean Fuels Objectives
12/16/03 Sulzer Hexis and the German Liquefied Gas Union sign agreement
12/10/03 NASA and DOE lab team on fuel cell research sealing technologies for SOFCs PNNL
12/16/03 FuelCell's Q4 loss narrows while revenue declines CBSMW
12/16/03 One year after launch, consortium powers ahead PLUG Albany Times Union
12/16/03 New hydrogen buses hit the road BBC News
12/16/03 FuelCell Energy Reports 2003 Year-End, Fourth Quarter Results
12/16/03 Astris launches advanced alkaline fuel cell generator
12/16/03 Ballard Powered Fuel Cell Buses Delivered to the City of London
12/11/03 Axane wins award at 2004 Design Observer Contest for Roller Pac fuel cell unit
12/13/03 "Japan's electronics giant Hitachi has revealed a prototype model of a notebook computer powered by a direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) battery" Photo AFP via yahoo
12/12/03 NEW FUEL CELL PILOT PLANT FOR APOLLO Apollo Energy Systems, Inc.
12/15/03 "One miracle at a time" Full nanotechnology solutions are not expected to emerge for a few years yet, but companies are already working on applications ranging from flash memory based on molecular grids to the use of carbon nanohorns in fuel cells. Computerworld Singapore
12/15/03 Amsterdam tests water-fuelled buses Expatica, Netherlands
12/11/03 GLOBAL SOFC MARKET TO REACH $335 MILLION BY 2008 BCC Research
12/15/03 Danish Wind Power Giants Merge Vestas and NEG Micon SolarAccess.com
12/15/03 UQM Technologies Delivers Compressor Motors to Eaton Corporation for Use in Fuel Cells
12/15/03 Startech Environmental Is Awarded a Half Million Dollar Grant in the Energy And Water Bill for Startech Hydrogen Project
12/15/03 Japanese launch fuel-cell batteries Cape Argus, South Africa
12/14/03 New rules may give diesel vehicles a needed boost ""Diesels are approaching 50 percent market penetration in Europe," Gary Smyth of General Motors noted at a recent Washington conference held by the Diesel Technology Forum, an industry coalition. [In the US] diesels have yet to crack 1 percent of the passenger vehicle market. Other than Volkswagens, few passenger cars are even available in diesel." Detroit News
12/14/03 OIL COMPANIES SET TO LAUNCH HYDROGEN GAS STATIONS BY 2005 Press Information Bureau, India
12/14/03 "Hydrogen fuel fund by fiscal end" The Hindu, India
12/13/03 Skate scooter powers up for clean getaway Independent Online, South Africa
12/13/03 Fuel cell future for India's cars Great Reporter
12/13/03 Japan leads the charge in fuel cell applications AFP
12/12/03 Form 10-Q for QUANTUM FUEL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES WORLDWIDE INC Management's discussion via yahoo
12/12/03 Rabago and Yeoman Join HARC Research Team
12/12/03 Where’s the nearest gas station? My PDA has just run out of juice Hitachi PDALive.com
12/12/03 Centre for Energy announces key alliance partnerships
12/11/03 New U.S. standard for hydrogen generation to spur growth of fuel cell industry Underwriters Laboratories
12/11/03 GASHUB POWER STRIKES DEAL WITH IMRE AND EXPLOIT TECHNOLOGIES TO SPEED GROWTH IN FUEL CELLS TECHNOLOGY "GasHub and IMRE will jointly develop prototype fuel cells using IMRE’s novel research and proprietary technology which produces higher quality membranes with better conductivity and efficiency."
12/12/03 Singapore designed fuel cell costs half the price of existing ones "Materials Research and Engineering, working with GasHub Power . . . What makes this fuel cell unique is this patented plastic-like conductive membrane. " Channelnewsasia.com
12/12/03 Hitachi readies fuel cell for PDAs PHOTO! The Register
12/12/03 BIG CORPORATES TARGET NANO FIRMS TO PREPARE FOR FUEL CELL MARKET "Cabot Corp’s acquisition of Superior MicroPowders for $16 million in the United States and Belgium-based Timcal’s takeover of Erachem Comilog’s carbon black business unit in Europe" Small Times
12/12/03 Volkswagen skeptical about benefits of hybrid powertrains
12/11/03 InPlay: Quantum Fuel beats by $0.05, misses on revs
12/11/03 Quantum Reports Fiscal 2004 Second Quarter Results
12/11/03 2004 Tech Pioneers Hydrogenics, Medis World Economic Forum [Tech Pioneer Selection Process]
12/11/03 Hitachi Details Fuel Cell Plans PC World
12/11/03 Heliocentris rolls out new web site
12/11/03 First Albany Coverage on QTWW Reiterated at Strong Buy
12/11/03 Hitachi squeezes fuel cell into PDA ZDNet UK
12/11/03 Hitachi plans fuel-cell for handheld devices by 2005 Techworld
12/11/03 Fuel-cell breakthrough could boost portable power " . . . lengthening the working life of membranes. . . has extended the life of the membrane to over 1500 working hours" ZDNet UK
12/11/03 UQM Technologies Provides Auxiliary System Drive Motors for Use in Fuel Cell Powered Caterpillar Mining Vehicle
12/11/03 Dynetek Industries Ltd. to Deliver Hydrogen Fuel Storage Systems to Ford Motor Company
12/11/03 PROTON ENERGY SYSTEMS INC Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events
12/11/03 The World Economic Forum Designates Medis Technologies as a Technology Pioneer for 2004
12/11/03 Enova Achieves Great Success Building First U.S. Air Force Fuel Cell Bus
12/11/03 Interest Continues to Grow in AEC's Hydrogen Technology at International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy Meeting
12/10/03 Proton Energy Systems and Distributed Energy Systems Announce Completion Of Northern Power Acquisition "At the close of market on December 10, 2003, the NASDAQ National Market will cease trading of Proton shares. Effective December 11, 2003, NASDAQ will trade shares of Distributed Energy on the National Market under the ticker symbol "DESC." Each outstanding share of Proton stock will be converted into a share of Distributed Energy common stock. Stockholders of Proton will not need to trade in their existing Proton stock certificates."
12/10/03 'Home hydrogen factory' for fuel-cell cars "Honda claims to be developing a home energy station that can produce hydrogen for fuel-cell powered cars." IOL
12/10/03 More Revisions in Plans for New York's Tallest Tower "culminating in an unoccupied, open-air structure filled with . . . windmills that may generate 20 percent of the electrical power needed by the building." NY Times
12/10/03 Shanghai Puts Brakes On Bicycles in City "Already barred from some major thoroughfares, bikes will be banned altogether from important Shanghai streets next year, newspapers reported yesterday. To further discourage riders, police are jacking up fines tenfold for infractions such as running red lights. `Bicycles put great pressure on the city's troubled traffic situation,' the English-language Shanghai Daily quoted police official Chen Yuangao as saying." AP
12/10/03 Where Are the Hydrogen Mines? Tech Central Station
12/10/03 Firms to form GTA 'hydrogen village' Group of 27 to showcase fuel-cell generators and vehicles Toronto Star
12/10/03 Millennium Cell CEO Speaking Today on Consumer Demands in the Coming Hydrogen Economy
12/9/03 METI Panel Sees Energy Demand Waning, Will Revise Outlook "[P]ower demand may decline in the future due to the declining birthrate and technological advances . . . the development of new technology, such as fuel cells, is unlikely to significantly ease the nation's demand for oil in the short term." Nikkei
12/8/03 Venture Creates Low-Cost Way To Refit Cars To Run On Hydrogen "Energy venture Hydrogen Energy Laboratory Project Co. has developed a relatively inexpensive way to modify automobiles so they can run on hydrogen. To convert a gasoline-fueled car into a hydrogen-burning car, the company uses the existing gas tank to store water and installs a separate tank containing pressurized hydrogen. The hydrogen and water are fed to the engine and injected simultaneously, in computer-controlled volumes, into the cylinders, where the hydrogen is burned in a process that creates high temperatures and instantly vaporizes the water. The expansion that occurs when water converts to steam drives the pistons. The main substance exhausted from the car is water vapor. According to the company, one cubic meter of hydrogen can propel the car for around 4km, and the tank, which is made by a Canadian firm, can hold 70 cubic meters of hydrogen. . . it currently costs 10 million yen [US$93,000] to modify an existing car . . ." Nikkei
12/15/03 More Power To You Alternative-energy technologies could soon give your phone, your car and your house their own micro-generators - HYGS, MDTL Time Global Business
12/9/03 Astris terminates agreement with Care Automotive
12/9/03 Fuels Cells Canada Announces Hydrogen Village Partnership
12/9/03 A £12m contract for Porvair International Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
12/9/03 Nissan unveils safety features "The automaker also unveiled its first saleable fuel cell vehicle, which received government approval for marketing last month. The no-emission, hydrogen-fuelled FCV, based on the X-Trail recreational vehicle, comes two years ahead of schedule but lags those of Toyota and Honda by a full year." Automotive News
12/9/03 Solid Fuel Cell Works in Heat MIT Tech Review
12/9/03 Mach One Corporation: Company Enters Into New Business Venture "Letter of Intent with SHEC Labs - Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation ("SHEC") pursuant to which Mach One will commit to assist SHEC in securing up to $10 million in development capital"
12/9/03 Nissan to lease new fuel cell vehicle Japan Today
12/9/03 UQM Technologies Delivers Fuel Cell Compressor Motor Controls For Use in Fuel Cell Automobile UQM® Controller Manages Integrated Air and Hydrogen Compression Unit Developed by Barber Nichols for Automotive OEM's Fuel Cell Powered Automobile
12/9/03 Demonstration Projects and Establishing Lifecycle Costs of Fuel Cells are Vital to Expand Market Opportunities Frost & Sullivan
12/9/03 Biomimetics lowers cost of fuel cell e4engineering.com
12/9/03 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Invites You To Hear Fourth Quarter Results on Its Web Broadcast Conference Call on Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 10:00 a.m. EST
12/8/03 Fuel-Cell Car Demonstration Gives Pittsburgh Students Glimpse of Future Hydrogen Economy USDoE
12/8/03 Latest Incentives Should Increase Investment in Hydrogen Infrastructure "building early pilot hydrogen highways is the logical next step for the sector to make a faster transition into hydrogen fuel cell vehicles" H2CARSBIZ
12/8/03 Plug Power to demonstrate hydrogen generation system Albany Business Review
12/8/03 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for Tue, Dec 16
12/8/03 Japanese venture refits cars to run on hydrogen "Hydrogen Energy Laboratory Project Co" Asia Times Online
12/8/03 UTC Fuel Cells workers ratify new contract AP
12/8/03 MICROREACTORS COULD REDEFINE CHEMISTRY, NANODRIP BY DROP "A single small device, for example, could process liquid methanol into hydrogen gas inside a micro fuel cell" Small Times
12/8/03 QUANTUM Schedules Fiscal 2004 Second Quarter Financial Results Conference Call Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
12/8/03 Teledyne Technologies To Hold Investor Meetings
12/8/03 Eventful week on horizon for Proton Energy Systems "will unveil a new hydrogen generator at a national convention on Tuesday, and find out the next day if its acquisition of Northern Power Systems, Inc. in Vermont is finalized" Record-Journal, CT
12/7/03 Fire damages Carlsbad business Metallic Power NC Times
12/5/03 Projects point way toward energy-efficient future Toronto Star
12/5/03 TSX Venture Exchange has consented to the reduction in the exercise price of the following warrants . . . Fuel Cell technologies, Inc. TSX Venture Exchange - Daily Bulletins
12/5/03 Tathacus Resources Ltd. Announces Memorandum of Understanding with Xogen Power Inc.
12/5/03 TSX Venture Exchange - Trade Resumption Tathacus Resources Ltd. TTC TSX Venture Exchange - Halts and Resumptions
12/5/03 US Fuel Cell Council and Members to Exhibit at Power Gen 2003 Conference
12/5/03 TSX Venture Exchange - Trading Halt - Tathacus Resources Ltd. - TTC
12/5/03 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN, November 2003(1)
12/5/03 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN, November 2003(2) Fuel Cell Development Information Center
12/4/03 Emissions-Free Investing "ChevronTexaco, General Motors, Intel, United Technologies, Honda. What links these disparate companies? All have put research or investment dollars into the nascent technology of fuel cells . . ." Forbes
12/4/03 Battelle Experts to Demonstrate Solutions to Technical Defense Challenges Briefing to Showcase Latest Developments in Fuel Cell, Building Protection & Border Security Technologies
12/4/03 DaimlerChrysler delivers its first fuel-cell passenger car Technology - AFP
12/4/03 DaimlerChrysler Delivers Fuel-Cell Car to Tokyo Gas Kyodo news via MotorTrend Magazine
12/4/03 Fuel cell work energizes local firm T/J Technologies Ann Arbor News
12/4/03 Santa's sleigh will one day be fuel-cell powered Hoku Scientific Pacific Business News
12/4/03 Energy Conversion Devices Financials - EDGAR Online via yahoo
12/4/03 InPlay: FuelCell Energy target raised to $17 at RBC Briefing.com
12/3/03 Where Are We Headed? Opening press conference presentation by Dr. Alan Lloyd at 2003 Michelin Challenge Bibendum EV World
12/3/03 Hoku Scientific to discuss its future plans Pacific Business News
12/3/03 Re: ARC Canadian Energy Venture Fund 2's Holdings in Fuel Cell Technologies Corporation
12/3/03 New Fuel Cell Power Plant Dedicated at Yale University FCEL Yale University
12/3/03 Palcan Fuel Cells Announces A Joint Venture To Substantially Lower The Cost Of Fuel Cells And Create Significant Revenue
12/3/03 Edison Materials Center to get $3M Funds for hydrogen fuel cell development Dayton Daily News
12/1/03 MIT scientists say more hydrogen, less pollution Mass High Tech
12/3/03 MTI Microfuel Cells Files 50th Patent Application
12/3/03 Plug Power Announces New Product Line for On-Site Hydrogen Generation Market
12/3/03 Industry Coalition Launches National Fuel-Cell Bus Initiative National Fuel-Cell Bus Technology Initiative (NFCBTI) GreenBiz.com
12/2/03 The hydrogen alternative to fossil fuel Business Times Singapore
12/2/03 Japan Steel Works Teams With GTI to Support Advanced Hydrogen Storage Using Hydrides
12/2/03 Proton Energy Systems Launches HOGEN® H Series Hydrogen Generator
12/2/03 Startech Environmental (OTC:BB "STHK") Signs Contract for Production Of Starcell Hydrogen From Trash for U.S. Department of Energy "valued at approximately $500,000"
12/2/03 Shedding New Light on Fuel Cells Wired News
12/1/03 Carefree hydrogen firm hopes to be 'world beater' Alchemix Phoenix Business Journal
12/2/03 Fueling our future: High on hydrogen "If hydrogen becomes the fuel of the future, sunny Arizona is poised to strike it rich" Arizona Republic
12/2/03 Porvair shareholders back sale Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
12/1/03 Astris Energi reports third quarter results
12/1/03 Turning Northeast Wyoming Upside Down in the Hunt for Coal-Bed Methane "The Powder River Basin is the most active region of coal-bed methane drilling in the nation, a place where in the next few years more than 50,000 wells will have been drilled to obtain, at most, a year's supply of natural gas. . . ." NY Times
12/1/03 Fuel Cell Technologies Raises Over $4.2 Million
12/1/03 ECD Ovonics President and CEO Delivers a Keynote Talk At Materials Research Society Meeting in Boston
12/1/03 Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. Announces Appointment of Dr. Xin Wang as Vice President and Director of Research and Development
12/1/03 Cellphone's Add-Ons Demand More Juice: Battery Can't Keep Up "Consider a phone appearing in Japan this month that can pick up TV broadcasts, thanks to a built-in tuner made by NEC Corp. It runs out of power after one hour of viewing, on average. . . . There is some hope that methanol-filled fuel cells, which can provide five to 10 times as much energy as the average rechargeable battery, will help solve the power crunch. But none of the manufacturers expects them on the mass market for a few years, and even then there are big questions about their price, size and safety." Wall Street Journal
12/1/03 Sustainable Energy Technologies: Follow Up Orders for Japanese Fuel Cell Inverters
12/1/03 Tiny fuel cells that use methanol may one day provide the gas for our gadgets Pittsburgh Post Gazette
12/1/03 Taskforce On Hydrogen Fuel Sees Great Scope For India Financial Express, India

November 2003

11/29/03 Norris company faces bankruptcy questions ZeTek Power Telegraph.co.uk
11/30/03 State has little energy for fuel cells PPL: Other places are more generous with incentives for the electricity generators The Morning Call, Allentown, PA
11/30/03 UConn Research Team Working On Army Fuel Cells Goal Is To Reduce Combat Pack Burden For The Modern Soldier New London Day
11/29/03 Norris company faces bankruptcy questions ZeTek Power Telegraph.co.uk
11/27/03 "Solar generated hydrogen fuel and electricity has become a reality . . ." Solar Tower Global Group of Companies
11/29/03 Comin' In on a Wheel and a Prayer "Vaguely resembling a sporty motorcycle, the uni-wheeled Embrio uses electronic and hydrogen-fuel-cell technology to help its driver zip around obstacles. . ." Wired
11/29/03 Hydrogen fueled bus going on a test drive "AC Transit invites the public to take a free test ride on its new hydrogen fuel cell bus, which will be on display on Solano Avenue in Albany today." Oakland Tribune
11/28/03 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2004 Results Webcast 12/01/03 @ 3:30 p.m. Eastern
11/28/03 GERMANY: Construction starts on first 'integrated' hydrogen vehicle refuelling station just-auto.com
11/27/03 JM sell-off enables focus on catalysts "Johnson Matthey has put two-thirds of its colours and coatings business up for sale to fund acquisitions in its fast-growing catalysts business." Financial Times
11/27/03 UD fuel-cell powered car best Chemical engineers win competition in San Francisco Dayton Daily News
11/27/03 Still plenty of catalysts around to make Johnson Matthey one to buy Independent
11/27/03 INQUIRER survives trip on hydrogen bus The Inquirer
11/27/03 Without Energy Legislation, Grid, Power Policy in Limbo Washington Post
11/27/03 Stuart Energy Announces Final Phase of Integration Plan and Product Standardization
11/26/03 Energy Conversion Devices Files its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for Quarter Ended September 30, 2003 NASDAQ to temporarily change its trading symbol from ENER to ENERE
11/26/03 UPS to Acquire More Fuel-Efficient Planes and Vehicles "The addition of alternate fuel cell vehicles to UPS fleets around the world is also expected to increase fuel efficiency from 2002 levels of 0.1038 gallons per package to 0.1008 gallons per package in 2007. "
11/24/03 TSX Venture Exchange Daily Bulletins PALCAN FUEL CELLS: "TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing documentation with respect to a Non-Brokered Private Placement announced October 10, 2003" 420,000 shares @ $0.30
11/26/03 Digital Energy & Farming to Develop SOFC-based Generators for the Home, Small Business & Industrial Markets
11/26/03 ADVISORY/PHOTO OPP. ALERT: GM's ''AUTOnomy'' Fuel Cell Car on Display at Case's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland Tuesday, December 2, 2003
11/25/03 Drop-outs granted patents for hydrogen production Two cousins discover inexpensive method to produce non-polluting gas using discarded aluminum cans and Drano The Globe and Mail
11/24/03 "Energy Related Devices (ERD) has just entered into an agreement with Manhattan Scientifics (MSI) for a worldwide non-exclusive license to our MicroFuel CellTM technology. . . ."
11/26/03 Energy Conversion Devices Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2004 Operating Results
11/26/03 Fuel Cell Technologies Reports Third Quarter Results
11/26/03 Energy bill's failure disappoints hybrid fans USA Today
11/26/03 Praxair Increases Prices on Cylinder Gases in the U.S. and Canada "oxygen, acetylene, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and other gas products between 6 percent and 8 percent . . . In addition, cylinder and equipment rental fees will be increased 5 percent. These prices become effective on December 1, 2003" Praxair
11/26/03 Energy crisis looms, experts warn "Forget about hydrogen fuel cells, wind power, nuclear reactors and even global warming. The real energy crisis is that worldwide production of oil and natural gas will peak by 2020, warn some of the country's top experts. And the only solution will be higher energy prices, from the gas pumps right through to household electricity." Toronto Star
11/25/03 METI Sees 6 Industries As Key To Japan's Future "biotechnology, fuel cells, Internet-enabled home appliances, content such as computer software, environmental equipment and services, and robotics" Nikkei
11/24/03 Ultrathin battery helps fuel-cell cars Nikkei
11/26/03 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 11/14/03 NASDAQ
11/26/03 Norway Builds Hydrogen Highway from Stavanger to Oslo H2CARSBIZ
11/26/03 Millennium Cell Inc. Financials EDGAR Online via yahoo
11/25/03 Senate Energy Bill Dead for This Year Washington Post
11/25/03 Ener1 Files Patent for New Fuel Cell With Integrated Control System New Control System Extends Fuel Cell Life, Provides Adaptive Power Output To Meet Variable Load Demands of Electric Vehicles
11/25/03 Senate gives up on energy legislation GOP leaders optimistic for next year; gas additive stalls plan Detroit News
11/24/03 Energy Bill in Limbo, May Be Dead for This Year Reuters
11/24/03 Burning the Midnight Oil: VW banks on diesel for the near future “I doubt anyone in this room will ever see fuel cells replace the internal-combustion engine,” said Volkswagen chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder AutoWeek
11/24/03 Cornell Fuel Cell Institute Builds Fuel Cell For Alternative Energy Source Cornell Daily Sun
11/24/03 Your next battery Scientists are scrambling to perfect the fuel cell as a methanol-powered source for energy-hungry laptops and other portable devices Boston Globe
11/24/03 United Solar Ovonic LLC -- Uni-Solar -- Selects SatCon Power Converters for Their Large Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems
11/24/03 Astris launches new fuel cell testing product "This enhanced test load device is a precursor to the launch in December of our MC250 POWERSTACK fuel cells which will enable Astris to begin pre- commercial production of the 2.4 kW model E8 fuel cell generator"
11/23/03 Fuelling change test drive of DaimlerChrysler F-Cell The Star, Malaysia
11/23/03 Korea to Help Commercialize Hydrogen Fuel Korea Times
11/22/03 India assigned key place in hydrogen club Hindustan Times
11/22/03 India News: India is vice chairman of hydrogen economy committee New Kerala
11/21/03 Ministers Sign Agreement to Coordinate Hydrogen Research Abraham says accord marks advance toward hydrogen economy Washington File (usinfo.state.gov)
11/21/03 Energy Bill Would Welcome Back Diesels "One credit, ranging from $400 to $2,400, would rise depending on how much more fuel efficient a vehicle was than the average vehicle in its class. A second credit, ranging from $250 to $1,000, would rise depending on the projected fuel savings over the vehicle's life. Fuel cell vehicles, much more costly, receive higher credits" NY Times
11/20/03 DTE Energy Technologies Signs Contract to Develop Microgrid at NextEnergy Site DTE Energy Technologies
11/21/03 Chasing FreedomCar & hydrogen economy Deccan Herald, India
11/21/03 11:50 AM Final Vote on Energy Bill Blocked Senate Filibuster on Measure Continues "On a 57-40 vote, supporters of the bill failed by three votes to cut off debate on the legislation." AP
11/21/03 Technology News: World looks at era of hydrogen-powered vehicles IPHE New Kerala, India
11/21/03 Editorial: Energy bill gives short shift to renewables Arizona Daily Sun
11/21/03 Hyundai, Kia to sell hydrogen cars in US "plan to test release 32 ecofriendly experimental cars using hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies in the United States next year" Korea Herald
11/21/03 Europe's assets should be foundation of international hydrogen partnership, says de Palacio Cordis News
11/21/03 Abraham says hydrogen revolution must occur in two decades Arabic News
11/20/03 SPEECH/03/560 Loyola de Palacio, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Transport and Energy EU Energy Policy - looking to the future - Round table of high level US business executives on Transatlantic energy issues - US Chamber of Commerce
11/21/03 Talk from the Top: New Honda chief Takeo Fukui puts the accent on performance "By 2020, what percent of the developed world's markets will be powered by hybrids, what percent by fuel cells . . . ? . . . fuel cell penetration will be very limited, probably less than 10 percent" Autoweek
11/21/03 Medis Technologies Ltd. Financials EDGAR Online Financials via yahoo
11/20/03 ECD Ovonics Announces Departure of President And Chief Operating Officer of Ovonic Battery Subsidiary
11/20/03 Mitsubishi Heavy Develops Mobile Hydrogen Production System "system consists of control equipment, carbon dioxide collection equipment and hydrogen production equipment, all mounted on a trailer around 10 meters long. It uses technology that produces hydrogen from such sources as city gas and gasoline using a special membrane. Hydrogen is produced while the trailer is stopped. Mitsubishi Heavy has already produced a test version that can make 40 cu. meters of hydrogen per hour. In the future, it aims to make a version capable of producing 160 cu. meters per hour." Nikkei
11/20/03 Power grid plan developed to avoid outages FCEL Grand Valley Lanthorn
11/20/03 India in partnership for Hydrogen economy: Pant The Hindu
11/20/03 New York's Hydrogen HI WAY Initiative Secures $2 Million Oswego Daily News
11/20/03 15 countries to work together on hydrogen energy New Kerala, India
11/20/03 International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE)- Ministerial Meeting, Washington Speech: Loyola de Palacio, Vice-President of the European Commission, Commissioner for Transport and Energy “Hydrogen, a universal energy carrier - a crossroad for global Energy policies”
11/20/03 BOC displays the GH2OST, hydrogen powered car, at IPHE technology showcase
11/20/03 Avista Labs Adds Nosbaum to Board of Directors
11/20/03 Slower Than Expected Market Development Limit Early Stationary Fuel Cell Shipments, Says ABI
11/20/03 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Reviews Third Quarter 2003 Results
11/20/03 SatCon Successfully Installs 250-Kilowatt Uninterruptible Power Supply to Provide Back Up Power to 80,000 On-Line Students
11/19/03 FuelCell slides in wake of contract's finalization CBSMW
11/19/03 ALTERNATE ENERGY CORP Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report EDGAR Online via yahoo
11/19/03 Editorial: China's Message on Energy "where are America's leaders? Feathering nests, rather than imposing discipline on the nation's fuel use, or trying in any serious way to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. Each freshly turned page of this monstrous bill brings new evidence of Congressional cupidity . . ." NY Times
11/19/03 New energy rules draw fire 1,400 page bill gives too much to oil coal and gas firms, critics say "authorizes $2.15 billion in spending over five years for the research and development of hydrogen and hybrid vehicles by the nation's automobile companies" Ann Arbor News
11/19/03 New look for micro fuel cells physicsweb
11/19/03 DaimlerChrysler, New York City Team Up to Put Zero-Emission, All-Electric GEM Vehicles to Work in the City "Looking to the future, DaimlerChrysler will have road-test experience with more than 100 fuel cell vehicles by the end of 2004, including passenger cars, vans and buses." Chrysler Group
11/20/03 Intl standards eyed for fuel-cell vehicles Daily Yomiuri
11/19/03 FuelCell Energy and Caterpillar finalize power plat deal with Ohio Mass High Tech
11/19/03 Micro Fuel Cell Regulations & Compliance Seminar Series Announced by CBI
11/19/03 ECD Ovonics Confirms New Auditors to Require More Time For First Quarter Review
11/17/03 Ion Power Inc  Awarded Dept. of Energy Contract to Develop Fuel Cell Component RecyclingTechnology
11/17/03 Ion Power Inc Awarded  Patent for MEA Manufacturing
11/17/03 MGE UPS SYSTEMS Teams with FuelCellStore.com to Market Portable AirGen® Fuel Cell Generators MGE
11/19/03 Local firms give new technology the hard cell Middlesbrough Evening Gazette, UK
11/19/03 Energy bill's renewable fuels standard a win Osborne says provision is a positive for farmers, consumers in Nebraska Ethanol theindependent.com
11/19/03 GM trying to put the H into China Reuters
11/19/03 Altair Nanotechnologies Provides Shareholder Update
11/19/03 Customer Choices Will Drive Hydrogen Economy, Shell Hydrogen CEO Tells Summit
11/19/03 FuelCell Energy downgraded by Robert W. Baird from Neutral to Underperform Briefing.com
11/19/03 Astris Energi appoints IR consultant
11/19/03 Caterpillar and FuelCell Energy Finalize Ohio Fuel Cell Contract "City of Westerville Electric Division to supply a 250-kilowatt Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) power plant designed to feed power at a substation into the local electric distribution system in Westerville, Ohio." FuelCell Energy
11/19/03 10:10 a.m. H2FC's power just restored by DTE Energy after another 14 hour outage that effected 20 customers in a typical subdivsion, apparently caused by nothing more than rain. H2FC wants a fuel cell NOW PLEASE.
11/18/03 Hydrogen Program Starts In Russia Space Daily
11/18/03 Hastert Praises Energy Conference Report; Says It Meets America's Energy Needs Now "Energy Policy Act launches a state-of-the-art program to have emission-free hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the road by 2020" US Newswire
11/17/03 Cabot Superior MicroPowders expands New Mexico Business Weekly
11/18/03 Slideshow: GM Pitches 'Hy-Wire' Car in China Reuters
11/18/03 Hydrogen research earns $5.1 million in Global Climate and Energy Project grants Global Climate and Energy Project
11/18/03 GM Wants China to Help Promote New Car AP
11/18/03 GM hoping to sell China on hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology AFP
11/18/03 Proton Energy Systems, In Financials EDGAR Online Financials via yahoo
11/18/03 S.African platinum output rise uncertain-Matthey Reuters
11/18/03 Johnson Matthey supply/demand details Reuters
11/18/03 Platinum demand growth to slow, high prices persist Reuters
11/18/03 Snow Leopard Resources Inc. Announces its Third Quarter Results
11/18/03 GM Pitches Hydrogen Cars in Oil-Thirsty China Reuters
11/18/03 Bill offers hybrid tax credits Incentives aim to spur development of diesel, fuel-cell, gas-electric vehicle power systems "The final package includes tax credits of $250 to $2,400 for fuel cell, advanced diesel, gas-electric hybrid and other alternative fuel vehicles." Detroit News
11/18/03 China Set to Act on Fuel Economy; Tougher Standards Than in U.S. "new standards are intended both to save energy and to force automakers to introduce the latest hybrid engines and other technology in China, in hopes of easing the nation's swiftly rising dependence on oil imports . . . Some popular vehicles now built in China by Western automakers, including the Chevrolet Blazer, do not measure up to the standards the government has drafted, and may have to be modified . . ." NY Times
11/18/03 Local cell to power Beijing Olympics Shen-Li High-Tech Company Ltd. Shanghai Daily News
11/17/03 Bush Administration Misleading Public About Hydrogen Policy; Top Experts Respond to Administration's PR Offensive "Bush administration officials are renewing an offensive to burnish their environmental credentials through a push to develop hydrogen power. However, all forms of hydrogen are not the same. The vast energy and ecological benefits of hydrogen will only be realized if renewable sources of energy become the prime source for extracting hydrogen. . . the White House plan calls for massive subsidies to the coal and nuclear industries to extract hydrogen - a black hydrogen agenda" Green Hydrogen Coalition via AScribe
11/17/03 X-Trail Fuel Cell Vehicle Proves Hydrogen System in the Real World Nissan Motor Trend
11/17/03 Secretary Abraham, Energy Ministers Participate in Fuel Cell Vehicle Drive and Ride U.S. DOE
11/17/03 FCT Reprices Warrants "9,933,870 outstanding Warrants . . . Each Warrant now entitles the holder to purchase one Common Share of FCT at a price of $0.57, at any time up to the expiry of the Warrants on 4:30pm (Kingston, Ontario time) on November 28, 2003. All other terms of the Warrants will remain unchanged."
11/17/03 Coalition of Industry Leaders Launches National Fuel Cell Bus Initiative Transit Offers Best Early Market for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Multi-Year Effort to Develop, Deploy and Commercialize Newest Technologies in Transit Bus Applications WestStart-CALSTART
11/17/03 Lengthen Battery Life MTI, Medis "Some developers hope to bypass the cost and size problems and accelerate commercial adoption of the technology by going directly to consumers, rather than electronic-device makers. For instance, Medis Technologies is building a fuel-cell recharger that can rapidly recharge existing cellphone batteries. By designing a recharger, which is about the size of the phone itself, instead of a battery replacement, it avoids the head-on competition with lower-cost and smaller batteries." Wall street Journal
11/6/03 Definitive proxy statement relating to merger or acquisition PRTN "A special meeting of stockholders of Proton Energy Systems, Inc. will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2003 at 10:30 a.m., local time, at the Ramada Plaza Hotel, 275 Research Parkway, Meriden, Connecticut" sec.gov
11/17/03 Ener1 to convert $12M in debt to equity South Florida Business Journal
10/2003 Lawmakers look to new nuke plants to fuel the coming hydrogen economy Popular Science
11/17/03 Opening of Siemens plant delayed again "It doesn't make sense for us to set up a manufacturing facility to make a product that still might change in design" $122M Munhall fuel cell facility remains empty Pittsburgh Business Times
11/17/03 Abraham outlines plans for hydrogen fuel, Canadian oil Washington Times
11/17/03 Rep. Cox Obtains Federal Support for Quantum's U.S. Army Hydrogen Infrastructure Program
11/17/03 Stuart Energy Receives Groundbreaking Order From South Coast Air Quality Management District for Hydrogen Energy Station in California
11/17/03 Lansing school gets $1 million to train fuel cell techs AP
11/17/03 LCC lands $1M energy grant Lansing State Journal
11/16/03 Automaker expands fuel cell development AP via The Globe and Mail
11/16/03 DaimlerChrysler to Expand On-Road Fleet of Fuel Cell Vehicles To More than 100 in 2004 Chrysler Group
11/16/03 Proposal would have U.S. riding the rails on air Firm hires ex-congressman to push national maglev system "proposing to combine magnetic levitation . . . with solar panels that would power hydrogen-generating substations for fuel to run both the trains and personal vehicles that could run on hydrogen." ANN ARBOR NEWS
11/16/03 Company developing fuel-cell subway "The Denver-based Fuelcell Propulsion Institute plans to convert a 120-ton diesel locomotive into a fuel cell-driven train" Chicago Tribune
11/16/03 2004 Alternative Fuel & Hybrid Vehicle Guide FCVs, HEVs, H2- ICEs Motor Trend
11/16/03 Bombardier EMBRIO one-wheeler Concept "This hydrogen fuel cell powered, gyroscopically balanced, one-wheeled recreational and commuting vehicle provides an extraordinary vision of the kind of personal transport we could be using 20 years from now." Gizmo, Australia
11/17/03 Cabot Superior MicroPowders expands New Mexico Business Weekly via MSNBC
11/15/03 Marubeni Announces Siting of Direct FuelCell® Power Plants at Epson Marubeni
11/14/03 US Seeks Help In Hydrogen Fuel Project The Financial express, India
11/14/03 PACIFIC FUEL CELL CORP Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report EDGAR Online via yahoo
11/14/03 Plug Power completes stock sale Albany Business Review
11/14/03 ECD Ovonics Appoints Grant Thornton As Independent Auditors
11/14/03 Porvair sells firms to its management "Porvair said it was selling the businesses to concentrate on its core areas, fuel cell technology and filtration." Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
11/14/03 ECD Ovonics Closes Additional Unit Sale for $2.8 Million
11/14/03 MEDIS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report EDGAR Online via yahoo
11/14/03 Microbial Fuel Cells: Optimization Of The Anode Compartment For Improved Electron Transfer Innovations-Report
11/14/03 Fuel cell plates can be made for a euro Plastics and Rubber Weekly
11/14/03 Medis Technologies Reports Third Quarter and Nine Months Results
11/14/03 FCT at Heart of First Canadian Residential Fuel Cell Demonstration
11/13/03 Plug Power Completes $58.5 Million Common Stock Offering
11/13/03 Important Advance in Developing Biological Strategies to Produce Hydrogen, Sequester Carbon Dioxide, Clean Up the Environment Abraham said: "it is easier to imagine, in the not-too-distant future, a colony of specially designed microbes living within the emission-control system of a coal-fired plant, consuming its pollution and its carbon dioxide . . ." USDOE
11/13/03 IBEA Researchers Make Significant Advance in Methodology Toward Goal of a Synthetic Genome Advance Toward the Goal of a Completely Synthetic Genome That Could Aid in Carbon Sequestration and Energy Production Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives
11/13/03 EU thematic network aims for a sea change in energy production "far reaching report on the current status and future prospects of wave energy technology" Cordis
11/11/03 Prodi presents action plan for European Growth Initiative "Among the areas foreseen for immediate research and innovation projects are . . . the hydrogen economy" Cordis
11/13/03 Fuel cell visits Salmon River Electric Co-op "Elder said the visiting fuel cell produced one kilowatt of electricity and cost about $28,000." IdaTech Challis Messenger, ID
11/13/03 Making Cheaper Hydrogen MIT Technology Review
11/13/03 GEM Neighborhood Electric Vehicles Solidify Market in 2003 More than 28,000 in Use by the End of the Year Chrysler Group
11/13/03 Stuart Energy Opens Second Hydrogen Energy Station In Sweden
11/13/03 Future is now for F-Cell cars in Singapore Jakarta Post
11/13/03 Hydrogen economy: India ready, yet wary Indian Express
11/12/03 Experts tell of fuel cells' future "In the face of stalled negotiations on a comprehensive energy bill, Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., told a meeting of congressional staffers, industry leaders and Washington insiders Wednesday that passing the legislation was a key step in advancing research on hydrogen fuel cells" UPI
11/12/03 Government Of Canada Supports Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. To Install The First Residential Fuel Cell In Canada "$260,000 project . . . FCT's five-kilowatt fuel-cell system will be installed at the CCHT in early 2004."
11/12/03 Fuel cell may be viable in a decade Business Times Singapore
11/12/03 Repeat Pretender Why do companies keep giving money to Stan Ovshinsky, the inventor who can create anything but profits? Forbes
11/12/03 Hybrids a stopgap until hydrogen cars reality Independent Online, South Africa
11/12/03 PLUG POWER INC Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events and Financial Statements & Exhibits "The Company expects to consummate the sale of the Shares on November 13, 2003. "
11/12/03 PROTON ENERGY SYSTEMS INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report
11/1/03 Twenty Myths Challenged - Part IV Concluding installment of series examining the myths of the hydrogen economy EV World
11/12/03 Form 10QSB for POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL INC
11/12/03 Will Hydrogen Clear the Air? Maybe Not, Say Some New York Times (free registration required)
11/12/03 SFC Smart Fuel Cell AG Closes Deal With International Investors
11/12/03 Satcon Technology Goes Live with 2.2 Megawatt Uninterruptible Power Supply Installation Successful at Processing Facility for Deluxe Film Laboratories, the World's Largest Motion Picture Film Processors
11/11/03 Proton Energy Systems, Inc. Announces Third Quarter Results
11/11/03 Plug Power to proceed with stock sale Albany Business Review
11/11/03 The Energy Crisis on Your Lap The oldest electric technology is the largest stumbling block for the future of mobile computing Newsweek
11/11/03 ALGOR V14.1 Released visualization software tenlinks.com
11/11/03 Ansoft Partners with Leading Companies to Showcase Innovative Electromechanical Design Technology to Aerospace, Automotive, Alternative Power Industries "including NASA, Ballard and Wavecrest Laboratories"
11/10/03 Stuart Energy Systems trims quarterly loss to $7.9M on record sales Canadian Press
11/11/03 Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. Announces Development of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell with Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrodes
11/11/03 5 Stocks You Can Understand ENER Motley Fool
10/28/03 Development of an innovative stainless steel for bipolar plates will open up the new millennium in the field of fuel cells Sumitomo Metal
11/11/03 Nano-batteries promise energy savings Taiwan News
11/11/03 Anuvu Introduces Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Pick-Up Truck Truck Ideal For Organizations Committed To Helping Establish Hydrogen Economy "two Anuvu Power-X™ 6 kW PEM fuel cells powering a motor from leading electric motor and vehicle provider Solectria Corporation . . . this initial version of the Clean Urban pick-up truck will be limited to 60 miles on highways in order to keep the price to $99,995 dollars (U.S.)"
11/11/03 ZAP CEO Says Electric Cars Bridge Gap to Hydrogen Infrastructure on WallSt.net
11/11/03 Plug Power prices stock placement below market Reuters
11/11/03 Plug Power Announces Common Stock Offering "11,700,000 shares of its common stock to selected investors at $5.00 per share for aggregate proceeds to the Company of $58.5 million, before placement fees and other offering expenses"
11/11/03 Marubeni Announces Siting of Direct FuelCell® Power Plants at Seiko Epson Marubeni
11/11/03 SatCon's Next-Generation Power Conditioning System Ready for Installation at Greenpoint Manufacturing Center in New York City Power Conditioning Systems (PCS) convert solar energy into useable AC electricity
11/11/03 Webcast Alert: Proton Energy Systems Announces Its Third Quarter FY 2003 Financial Results Conference Call Webcast
11/10/03 FCTec fuel cell Segway The Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center (FCTec) showcased this fuel cell powered Segway during the Fuel Cell Seminar in Miami, November 2003. The vehicle is powered by a 700W PEM fuel cell. PHOTO FCT
11/6/03 2003 Fuel Cell Seminar, Miami, 3-7 November, Live Report FCT
11/10/03 U.S. Automakers Change Focus From Hybrid To Fuel-Cell Vehicles "GM has suspended a plan to release a hybrid vehicle for two years from 2005. The automaker says it will opt to concentrate its management resources on fuel-cell vehicles, seen as a more eco-friendly future alternative, rather than the hybrid models it believes are merely transition vehicles." Nikkei
11/7/03 Toyo Radiator Device Enhances Home Fuel Cells "The device extracts hydrogen by passing natural gas and air through a catalyst, as in standard models, but uses an additional catalyst to absorb the surplus heat generated." Nikkei
11/5/03 Fuji Electric Developing Fuel Cells To Power Homes "The PEFC (polymer electrolyte fuel cell) prototype has already been verified to be capable of 3,000 hours of continuous operation. By modifying key components, Fuji Electric aims to boost durability and have ready by the start of next year an improved prototype that will have a power output of 1kw and will be able to operate continuously for more than 10,000 hours. By 2007 or 2008, Fuji Electric aims to have a commercial version that can run for 20,000 to 30,000 hours and will be marketed with gas companies. The fuel cell would sell for less than a tenth of the 1 million yen price tag for comparable products available now. The company is also working on a reformer that will extract hydrogen from natural gas. In addition, Fuji Electric is considering developing a 5kw version of the fuel cell for such sites as restaurants and convenience stores." Nikkei
11/5/03 First Energy Service To Generate Power For Seiko Epson Plant "Fesco will install a highly efficient cogeneration system that produces electricity using molten-carbonate fuel cells at a Seiko Epson plant in Minowa, Nagano Prefecture. Fesco will pay for the equipment, which will cost around 300 million yen and is expected to be in operation next April." Nikkei
11/10/03 Generating plant could power 250 homes CAT-FCEL Sauk Valley Newspapers
11/11/03 STMicro Develops Fuel Cells For Cellphones, Portable Devices The Financial Express, India
11/11/03 Norilsk Nickel Pursues a Palladium Fuel Cell "will spend as much as $40 million per year on research into fuel cells using palladium" Moscow Times
11/11/03 Academy of Sciences and Norilsk Nickel to sign collaboration agreement "Among the top-priority lines of activities to be followed under the agreement is the development of key elements of the infrastructure for the hydrogen electrical energy industry" RBC NEWS
11/11/03 GTL revs up fuel hopes "A FUTURE car breakthrough could keep the world turning without relying on either gasoline or the hi-tech and high-cost fuel-cell engines predicted to rule the road after 2020" Herald Sun, Australia
11/10/03 The Hydrogen Hallucination "Imagining that the simplest element in the universe held the key to solving our energy problems was exciting, but now it's time to awaken from our hydrogen hallucination and devote attention to the real solutions of improved efficiencies and sustainable sources." SolarAccess.com
11/10/03 Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. Presents a Paper Entitled "Efficient Manufacture of Low-Cost Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using Altair's Nanaomaterials"
11/10/03 Stuart Energy Announces Results for Quarter Ended September 30, 2003
11/10/03 Quantum Receives Order From India OEM for Electronic Controllers
11/10/03 Proton Announces Contract Award from the University of Nevada Las Vegas Research Foundation for Renewable Hydrogen Project "Proton will cost share 50 percent of the $1,376,640 contract award and can receive up to $688,320 in payments from UNLVRF."
11/9/03 Caterpillar, Deere developing fuel cells for power plants, tractors AP
11/6/03 T/J Technologies Offers Lab Scale Quantities of Affordable, High Performance Materials for Practical Advanced Stored Energy Systems "electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) and direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) . . . By using T/J’s electrocatalysts the same power may be generated with at least 10% less platinum, making fuel cells more affordable. . ."
11/5/03 GenCell Corporation set to receive $1,000,000 RD&D funding in 2004 from ’s Conservation & Load Management Fund MCFC, PEM, SOFC
11/7/03 ECD Ovonics Closes Unit Sale For $25 Million
11/7/03 World's first fuel-cell ferry to float in SF Bay Hydrogen power won't pollute the bay and will provide the muscle for the ferry that is expected to launch in 2005 - Anuvu Silicon Valley Business Ink
11/7/03 German carmakers look past gasoline MSNBC
11/7/03 Jadoo Power Systems Places in Top Three in National Business Plan Contest Jadoo
11/7/03 Public Invited to 'Electric' Weekend in Long Beach Hosted by Electric Drive Transportation Association
11/7/03 UAF tests fuel cell that may revolutionize Bush energy methanol fueled PEM by Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University Anchorage Daily News
11/7/03 PROVINCIAL AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS TO COOPERATE ON ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE " developing applications for wind- and hydrogen-energy technologies" Government of Canada
11/7/03 The "HUMIDICORE™" Fuel Cell Humidification System revolutionizes Fuel Cell design! EMPRISE CORPORATION
11/6/03 Liquid Assets "Groups ranging from the Natural Resources Defense Council to Greenpeace have advocated natural gas as the fossil fuel best-suited to carry us through the transition into a hydrogen economy." Grist Magazine
11/6/03 'Hydrogen highway' eyed "A “hydrogen highway” between Vancou