H2FC News Archive - Q2 2004
News Archive: Index

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June 2004

6/30/04 Third Frontier seeks grant applications Dayton Business Journal
6/30/04 Quantum Fuel soars after Q4 report Quantum "surged more than 20 percent as analysts applauded the hydrogen-fuel-cell specialist's narrower-than-expected, fourth-quarter loss" IBD
6/30/04 Quantum Fuel Trims Loss Dow Jones
6/30/04 Energy Visions Inc. To Demonstrate Its Direct Methanol Fuel Cell / Rechargeable Battery Hybrid Power Unit "in the last calendar quarter of 2004"
6/30/04 Entegris' John Goodman Elected United States Fuel Cell Council Policy Committee Chair
6/30/04 Component development for hydrogen and fuel cells - call for proposals European Communities
6/30/04 Support and assessment of hydrogen research - call for proposals European Communities
6/30/04 Stuart Energy's SHOW - The Renewable Hydrogen Roadshow - Brings Its 2004 Traveling 'Festival Within A Festival' to the Marin County Fair, July 1-5
6/30/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Announces Contract for Hydrogen Storage Systems Bound for China
6/22/04 Maine’s First Hydrogen Project Officially Under Way "renewably generated electricity will power an electrolizer to cleanly generate hydrogen" The Chewonki Foundation
6/30/04 Porvair cuts its losses "The company is concentrating on its filtration operations and the development of bipolar plates for use in fuel cells. A total of 10,000 plates were made last year and the company experienced strong demand for a prototype vehicular fuel cell from United Technologies Fuel Cells." Financial Times
6/29/04 FutureGen plan still alive Letter from U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham "While the House Interior appropriations bill does modify the way part of the project is funded, it fully funds FutureGen in 2005 and $237 million has been reserved for 2006 and beyond bringing the total commitment to $255 million or $18 million above DOE’s request." The Hill
6/24/04 FutureGen burns a little less brightly Appropriators deny bulk of budget request "The House passed the 2005 Interior appropriations bill last week, which fully funded the administration’s $18 million request for FutureGen — the planned $1 billion, 10-year project to build a coal-fired power plant that releases no carbon dioxide into the air and churns out hydrogen for fuel-cell cars. But the House also denied an administration request to earmark $237 million in previously appropriated but unspent money for the project." The Hill
6/29/04 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN, June 2004
6/29/04 Quantum Fuel rallies after Q4 report CBSMW
6/29/04 Quantum Reports Fiscal 2004 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Record quarterly revenues of $9.1 million . . .
6/24/04 Mechanical Technology Inc. Shareholders Meeting
6/29/04 The Board of ITM Power is pleased to announce the appointment of The Right Hon. Lord Walker as a non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect
6/29/04 SatCon Announces over $3.0 Million in New Electronics Division Contracts for the Second Consecutive Quarter
6/29/04 Manhattan Scientifics Resumes Trading on the OTC:BB
6/29/04 Yale University's Direct FuelCell Plant Recognized by U.S. EPA at International District Energy Association Conference DFC300A Power Plant is largest fuel-cell system to receive combined heat and power certificate International District Energy Association
6/29/04 World's Top Energy and Fuel Cell Experts Confirmed Keynotes at SME's Advanced Energy & Fuel Cell Technologies Conference & Exposition
6/29/04 Nuvera and Takagi Join to Develop Fuel Cell Systems for Japanese Market Companies agree to integrate state-of-the-art technologies to produce fuel cell-based cogeneration systems powered by natural gas
6/28/04 Wind, fuel cells could power future "Chugach, the largest of the six electric utilities on the railbelt, has been studying alternative energy sources for several years, according to Gilbert. Solar, wind and fuel cells have been investigated, and of those, wind appears to be the most viable . . . The utility recently shut down its 1-megawatt fuel cell project located at the U.S. Post Office in Anchorage" Alaska Journal of Commerce
6/28/04 GE Opens Technology Center in Germany "The center will focus on four main research areas: [1] Alternative energy generation technologies, particularly hydrogen, biomass and fuel cells; [2] Electrical systems for renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and water . . ." GE Global Research
6/28/04 Hyundai Motor May Make Hybrid Cars by the End of 2005 "Hyundai Motor last year said that it was cooperating with Toyota, Daimlerchrysler AG, Nissan Motor Co., Ford Motor Co. and PSA Peugeot Citroen SA on the development of fuel cells." Bloomberg
6/28/04 Toshiba photo AFP via yahoo
6/28/04 Engineering project aims to cut line to power grid PLUG AL.com
6/28/04 IdaTech Signs Italian Agent for Fuel Cell Systems
6/28/04 Probing the hydrogen versus gasoline debate Detroit News
6/27/04 SA may become the powerhouse of the world South Africa could become the powerhouse of world energy if hydrogen becomes the new power source of the future. This country holds 86 percent of the world's platinum resources and platinum is a vital catalyst needed to convert hydrogen into the new form of energy." Independent Online
6/27/04 SA could become a global energy leader "Hydrogen could replace oil as the world's main energy source, and its vast platinum reserves could see South Africa becoming the new Saudi Arabia." Business Report
6/27/04 Area snags Pentagon funding "Nu Element, a Tacoma company, will receive $3 million for a Navy project to develop a fuel cell system that uses jet fuel to produce electrical power." Tacoma News Tribune
6/22/04 Driving Impression: Nissan X-Trail FCV channel4.co.uk
6 /28/04 Investors plug into Ceramic Fuel Cells "Directors have closed its $15 million prospectus and Ceramic will join the stock exchange lists in two days with a market capitalisation of about $110 million." The Age, Australia
6/26/04 Fact Sheet: U.S.-EU Summit: Cooperation on the Development of the Hydrogen Economy The White House
6/26/04 Bill benefits local firms Centry Inc. and Electro-Optics get $9 million "$5 million for the Centry Inc. plastics and machining plant in Traverse City for a "ring extruder" project to develop composite materials used to manufacture fuel cells" Traverse City Record Eagle
6/26/04 Canada may prove fertile ground for investors "New Energy Technology has seen its net asset value on £100 increased to £146.60 in the past year. It has attracted £56 million in funds and is regarded as a specialist trust in the alternative energy and technology sector. . . Azure Dynamics, a Vancouver-based maker of hybrid electric cars, is its largest holding. Other Canadian stocks held include Xantrex for power electronics and Hydrogenics for fuel cells." The Scotsman
6/23/04 New York State at Forefront of Renewable Movement Utilipoint IssueAlert
6/25/04 Form 8-K for ENER1 INC "Ener1, Inc. ( the "Company"), Ener1 Acquisition Corp., awholly-owned subsidiary of the Company ("Acquisition") and Splinex TechnologyInc. ("Splinex"), a company affiliated with the Company through commonownership, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of June 9,2004, under which Acquisition will merge with and into Splinex (the "Merger").Splinex will be the surviving company in the Merger . . . "
6/25/04 Fuel cells may fuel a cleaner China Asia Times
6/25/04 DOE Statement on Passage of Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bill (HR 4614) "The Committee's $31 million reduction for fuel cell technologies should be restored by redirecting funds from the Corps of Engineers, which is funded well above the President's request." DOE
6/25/04 Honda Delivers Two Fuel Cell Vehicles to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) in California American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
6/25/04 Short postons in H2FC stocks as of 6/15/04
6/25/04 Medis Technologies Demonstrates Operating Fuel Cell Products Presentations Made by Medis' Strategic Associates Medis Issues Industry-Wide Invitation to Fuel Cell Comparisons
6/25/04 Quantum Schedules Fiscal 2004 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results Conference Call Tuesday, June 29, 2004, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time)
6/24/04 Fuel cell maker wants telcos to get the lead out Plug Power "wants to replace banks of batteries as the backup power source of choice for telecom applications" Government Computer News
6/24/04 BTV Features Palcan Fuel Cells
6/24/04 Toshiba develops matchbox-sized fuel cell for mobile phones "Toshiba plans to introduce the small DMFC with an output power of about 100 mW sometime next year." EE Times
6/24/04 Southwest Research Institute successfully completes residential fuel cell project San Antonio Business Journal
6/24/04 MTI Shareholders Meeting Highlights Breakthrough in Micro Fuel Cell Technology MTI Micro Introduces MOBION(TM) Technology; Demonstrates Both the World's First Handheld Entertainment System and a PDA/Smartphone Powered by Integrated Fuel Cells
6/24/04 Toshiba Announces World's Smallest Direct Methanol Fuel Cell With Energy Output of 100 Milliwatts Toshiba
6/24/04 Ballard could use home-grown commercialization "the unspoken concern beneath the hype and goodwill, particularly after a lacklustre annual general meeting this week and a stock price at a 52-week low, is whether the company could be the region's great white elephant." Globe and Mail
6/24/04 $13.5 million aimed here "would go to General Motors in Honeoye Falls to create a light-duty truck for the Army that would be fueled with hydrogen-powered fuel cell technology" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
6/24/04 Toshiba develops world's smallest fuel cell DMFC "56 millimeters long and 22 mm wide, or about the size of a thumb, and weighs 8.5 grams, Toshiba said. It has power output of 100 milliwatts and is capable of powering an MP3 music player for 20 hours on a single 2 cc charge of concentrated methanol" Japan Today | PHOTO
6/23/04 Nanostellar Secures $3 Million Funding; 3i Joins Seed Investors to Lead First Round of Financing "developer of highly efficient platinum nano-composite catalyst solutions"
6/23/04 Ballard Receives Order for Fuel Cell Engine from Japan Automobile Research Institute Ballard(R) Fuel Cell Engine Will Undergo Performance Research Testing to Support Standardization Activities in Japan
6/23/04 ADVISORY/The Illinois Hydrogen Highway Kicks Off June 24th The Illinois Coalition
6/23/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. enters into strategic relationship with Luxfer Gas Cylinders
6/23/04 SatCon's Power Systems Division Books $2,850,000 in Orders over the Last Four Weeks
6/23/04 Stuart Energy Awarded U.S. Patent for Networking Hydrogen Energy Stations
6/23/04 1000 Attend Critically-Timed 4th Annual USFCC CONGRESSIONAL FUEL CELL EXPO USFCC
6/23/04 Hydrogen cars ready to roll — for a price "Intergalactic Hydrogen has converted the Hummer to run on nonpolluting hydrogen. . ." MSNBC
6/23/04 A spoonful of fuel to banish flat batteries "Nokia did not disclose the Asian partner with which it is developing the fuel cell technology, but it is thought to be a Japanese company." Financial Times
6/23/04 Bernard S. Baker, 67, a Pioneer in the Development of Fuel Cells, Dies FCEL NY Times
6/23/04 Toho Gas and Two Others to Construct Hydrogen Stations for Fuel Buses within Premises of 2005 World Exposition "The three companies will construct two hydrogen stations with a filling capacity four times larger than the conventional. This will allow large vehicles including buses to be filled within a fast 10 minutes." Japan Corporate News
6/22/04 H2FC UPDATE: MICRO FUEL CELL STOCKS - MKTY, MDTL
6/22/04 Fuji Electric Develops Fuel Cell That Runs 7.5 Years "PAFC (phosphoric-acid fuel cell) for large buildings that lasts 50% longer, so is much less costly to maintain. The company made modifications to a 100kW PAFC which was released in 1998 and is now operating in 15 hospitals, office buildings and hotels. The overall device has a working life of 15 years, but up until now the fuel-cell stack and the reformer, which converts fuel to hydrogen, needed to be replaced every five years" Nikkei
6/22/04 New Iwatani Truck Can Carry Fuel Cell Car, Hydrogen Station "The truck will be used in efforts to publicize fuel cell vehicles in areas that do not have hydrogen stations. The company adjusted a 10-ton truck so that it could carry a mobile hydrogen station with a 240 cu. meter capacity and a fuel cell car. The hydrogen, contained in 12 cylinders, is enough to fill up a fuel cell car twice" Nikkei
6/22/04 Expo shows promise of hydrogen vehicles UPI
6/22/04 Ballard Board of Directors Appoints John Sheridan Chairman of the Board "Mr. Sheridan, former President and Chief Operating Officer of Bell Canada, has been a director of Ballard since 2001."
6/22/04 Rochester Institute of Technology Launches Partnership with Fuel Cell Industry Targeting Life-Cycle Strategies Collaboration with the U.S. Fuel Cell Council and EPA announced at Washington, D.C., expo RIT
6/22/04 MTI's Fuel Cells Keep Handhelds Humming eWeek
6/22/04 Fuel Cells for the Masses? MTI Motley Fool
6/22/04 National Post says Ballard's portable generator going nowhere fast "nearly 18 months after Ballard Power Systems planned to launch the world's first fuel cell powered generator for the consumer market, the company has yet to start selling the product." Stockwatch
6/22/04 Tyco Electronics Installation Services Signs Service Agreement for Plug Power's GenCore Fuel Cell System
6/22/04 Uni-Solar Ovonic's Building-Integrated Photovoltaics Systems to Power Beijing New Capital Museum Project will showcase Uni-Solar's lightweight, flexible solar cells in China
6/22/04 Innovative Energy Solutions Inc. Formed to Deliver Clean Energy Technologies "patented plasma processes which includes low cost hydrogen generation and low cost heat generation"
6/22/04 PDA Fuel Cells That Keep Going And Going... MTI Forbes
6/17/04 VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY TOURS NEXTECH MATERIALS, LTD. Stresses Importance of Clean Energy Technology
6/21/04 Auto Industry Inches Slowly Toward Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles "American Honda Motor Company's manager of alternative fuels, Gunnar Lindstrom, answers. 'We are a long, long way from there. Let me preface this by saying, it may be twenty years before we see fuel cell cars in any meaningful numbers'" Truth News
6/19/04 Romm - Right or Wrong? Two technical papers argue opposite views on the consumer cost of hydrogen EV World
6/21/04 USA: Fuel cell expo heads for politician central just-auto.com
6/21/04 First fuel cell passenger cars reach Berlin "A clutch of A-Class 'F-Cell' vehicles have been received by business partners Deutsche Telekom and BEWAG/Vattenfall Europe, the cars being delivered to the Mercedes-Benz Salzufer outlet." Platinum Today (Johnson Matthey)
6/21/04 Ballard CEO refuses to tell annual meeting when company will be profitable "Dennis Campbell backed away Monday from an earlier forecast that the company would break even by 2007, but told shareholders at its annual meeting that the company was still leading the way in fuel cell technology" Canadian Press
6/21/04 Voller Energy reveals new portable fuel cell system powered by camping gas Fuel Cell Today (Johnson Matthey)
6/21/04 Alternative-Energy Quest Is Blocked by a 1953 Law "The town decided to use wind energy for its 328 street lamps, two public baseball parks and all the rest of its municipal needs, even though it was slightly more expensive than conventional sources. In doing so, however, it ran up against a 51-year-old state law that requires cities to use the least expensive source for a commodity. . . an indignant defiance is spreading in certain soft-spoken towns upstate . . ." New York Times
6/21/04 Astris Energi obtains judgement to dissolve ATSI
6/20/04 Auto Industry Inches Slowly Toward Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Voice of America
6/19/04 More Fuel Cell Cars Running "Two corporate customers in Berlin have taken over fuel cell powered A-Class cars from Mercedes-Benz, at the same time as Mercedes put Europe's first fuel cell service station into regular operation, also in the German capital." CarKeys
6/19/04 Bill has $3.5 million for fuel-cell research at AU "Federal legislation with $3.5 million for Auburn University's hydrogen fuel-cell research program has won approval in a U.S. House appropriations committee." AP
6/21/04 A Sweet Way to Fuel Cars "have begun to apply for patents covering ways to convert glucose, a basic form of sugar, into energy" New York Times
6/21/04 Work starts on hydrogen center "DTE Energy has broken ground on its Hydrogen Technology Park . . ." Detroit Free Press
6/21/04 News Update "Fuel-cell developer Ballard Power Systems Ltd. holds annual shareholders meeting. Chairman Firoz Rasul retiring" Canadian Press
6/21/04 Hydrogen from Electrolysis, by Chip Schroeder President of DESC SolarAccess.com
6/21/04 MTI Micro Introduces Mobion!" Technology And Demonstrates The World's First Handheld Entertainment System And PDA/Smartphone Powered By An Integrated Fuel Cell Breakthrough MOBION!" cord-free rechargeable power pack to provide continuous access to power anytime, anywhere | PHOTO
6/21/04 Simpler fuel cell architecture being readied for portables EE Times
6/21/04 Fuel-cell maker closer to hitting small target MTI Micro unit shows technology's promise for replacing standard batteries Times Union PHOTO
6/21/04 Company Makes Plans for Portable Fuel Cells "MTI Micro Fuel Cells' new Mobion technology" PC World
6/21/04 Fuel Cell Vehicle Ride-and-Drive at 4th Annual CONGRESSIONAL FUEL CELL EXPO on Capitol Hill: Bi-Partisan Congressional Sponsors to Speak US Fuel Cell Council
6/18/04 Sumitomo, Nippon Steel To Boost Local Content Of Fuel Cells "The two companies believe increased local procurement will enable them to improve product quality and respond more quickly to parts replacement orders. The fuel cells are based on a solid-oxide-type product of Acumentrics Corp." Nikkei
6/14/04 S. Korea's Posco in Talks With Foreign Firms for Fuel Cell Project "POSCO, the world's largest steel maker after Europe's Arcelor and Japan's Nippon Steel, produces 85 per cent of its needed electricity by itself using traditional generators that run on natural gas." Asia Pulse
6/18/04 Tucson and Colorado Springs Middle Schools Win Science Bowl Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Competitions; National 'Battle of the Brains' Continues June USDOE
6/17/04 June 2004 Report California Hydrogen Business Council
6/18/04 Sharp And The State Of New Mexico To Jointly Develop In Alternative Energy Field Will Collaborate with Federal Laboratories and Research Facilities to Create Experimental Technology in Solar Power Generation Systems "solar power generation systems and fuel cells" Sharp Corporation
6/18/04 LOGANEnergy Launches Groundbreaking CHP Fuel Cell Project System Delivers Seamless Transfer of Fuel Cell Power to Critical Loads
6/17/04 Oil chief: my fears for planet Shell boss's 'confession' shocks industry "The head of [Shell] has admitted that the threat of climate change makes him 'really very worried for the planet'. " Guardian Unlimited
6/18/04 Environmental group aims to make convention a greener event "The largest contribution that CERC will make to the DNC is the 500 megawatt hours of renewable energy certificates . . . For additional power, four biodiesel generators are set to be used at the FleetCenter . . . CERC is waiting for a permit to run a hydrogen fuel cell" Boston Globe
6/17/04 Air Liquide's ROLLER PAC fuel cell rewarded once again "Air Liquide subsidiary Axane won the fourth Siemens Innovation Grand Prix on June 17th" Axane
6/18/04 Hybrid tax credit advances "Under the Senate plan, consumers would receive a tax credit of up to $1,000 for hybrid gas-electric powered vehicles and $4,000 for fuel-cell vehicles . . . Diesel-powered vehicles were not included" Congress considers bill to encourge sales of high-tech vehicles Detroit News
6/17/04 Fuel-cell group re-elects Plug Power official as president Albany Business Review
6/17/04 A true hydrogen engine  North Rose man has spent five years on project " the True Rotary Hydrogen Engine, a completely hydrogen-powered engine that he says will produce little sound and no pollution, use no petroleum products and operate at an estimated 70 percent efficiency" Finger Lakes Times
6/17/04 Remarks by the Vice President at Nextech Materials Whitehouse.gov
6/17/04 Rep. Wamp [R]: It's Time To Get Serious About Hydrogen The Chattanoogan
6/17/04 SatCon Comments on 8k Filing-Shelf Registeration
6/17/04 TIAX Chosen by DOE for Hydrogen Storage Research Project; $1.5 million project will assess hydrogen storage technologies in an effort to make hydrogen fueled vehicles a reality
6/17/04 Plug Power Director Elected U.S. Fuel Cell Council President for Third Term
6/17/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Delivers Hydrogen Fuel Storage Systems to The Hydrogen Car Company
6/17/04 SatCon Receives over $1.5 Million in Orders for Plasma Torch Power Supplies
6/17/04 Northern Power Systems Selected for New On-Site CHP System at Glendale, California Office Building Designed for maximum energy cost savings, system expected to deliver 86% of 300,000-square foot building's total electrical power requirement
6/17/04 Fuel cell efficiency cuts dairy energy costs, pollution The fuel cell on one New York dairy farm is used to heat the milking parlor during the winter. Farm and Dairy
6/16/04 SatCon files shelf registration for $25M worth of stock, preferred stock and warrants sec.gov
6/16/04 Fuel cells power IS 201 team to bowl win "students at middle schools throughout the five boroughs considered the possible negative impact of revolutionary technologies. . . the students also looked at the possible downside of fuel cells, from disrupting the shipping and auto industries to rendering the nation's huge oil infrastructure of refineries and gas stations practically obsolete. By far the most troubling possible outcome of the world's largest consumer of oil kicking the habit, the students realized, was the possibility of further destabilizing the strife-torn Middle East." NY Daily News
6/15/04 Carbonizing Wind "Wind turbine blade manufacturers are turning to high strength and low weight materials such as carbon fibers in hopes of finding new technology breakthroughs so they can increase turbine size and improve wind power economics. . . a wind turbine's capability to generate electricity increases by the square of its blade length" Utilipoint IssueAlert
6/9/04 International Renewable Conference Forges Clear Path Utilipoint IssueAlert
6/16/04 Hyundai unveils plans for fuel cell fleet "32 fuel cell vehicles . . . based on the Tucson SUV . . . 80 kilowatt UTC fuel cell . . ." Platinum today
6/16/04 Astris Energi position upheld in Court of Appeal "A lawsuit by former officer and director, E. Roy Birkett, was dismissed in its entirety after a trial in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario held in October 2002 . . ."
6/16/04 Fuel cell forum draws 250 RIT conference is challenged to bring down costs Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
6/16/04 Fuel cell journey a success GM's HydroGen 3 completes 6,000-mile trek without a hitch Detroit News
6/2004 Hydrogen Safety Report National Hydrogen Association
6/16/04 Waste, the final frontier The sheer amount of human refuse is a major obstacle to long-distance space travel. Kate Ravilious investigates the remarkable bacteria that could convert it into a source of electricity Independent Digital (UK)
6/15/04 Nokia plans cellphone of future " testing wireless mobile phone headsets powered by tiny fuel cells . . . still at least a few years away from the marketplace . . . Nokia, which does not make its own components, is working with unidentified partners on the fuel-cell project." International Herald Tribune
6/15/04 GM to Lease Fuel-Cell Minivan to US Postal Service Bloomberg
6/15/04 Post office to test fuel cell vehicle AP
6/15/04 Postal Service to use fuel-cell vehicle in D.C. area Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
6/15/04 Fuel cell company Lynntech lands $5.5M, moves to Mass. Boston Business Journal
6/15/04 Denver VC firm invests in Texas fuel cell testing company Lynntech Denver Business Journal
6/15/04 Fuel Cell Vehicle Ride-and-Drive at 4th Annual CONGRESSIONAL FUEL CELL EXPO on Capitol Hill: Bi-Partisan Congressional Sponsors to Speak US Fuel Cell Council
6/15/04 GM, U.S. Postal Service Agree to Move Mail With Fuel Cells U.S. Postal Service is GM's First Commercial Application of a Fuel Cell Vehicle in the U.S. General Motors Corporation
6/15/04 Entegris to Participate in the Congressional Fuel Cell Expo 2004, June 22, in Washington D.C.
6/15/04 Nanotech's Big Payoff? Never Having to Charge Your Cell Phone Again, Says Technology Review "new type of printable solar cell that promises to go almost anywhere, paving the way for affordable and ubiquitous solar power" Technology Review, Inc.
6/15/04 Alternate Energy Corp. Announces Management Changes
6/15/04 Cheaper wastewater-fueled device produces more electricity "engineers have removed and replaced one of the most expensive parts of their prototype microbial fuel cell and the device now costs two-thirds less and produces nearly six times more electricity" Pennsylvania State University PHOTOS!
6/15/04 Group tests home-, business-use fuel cells Niigata Prefecture backs the introduction of new regional energy sources Japan Times
5/31/04 Gas Gobblers Reject Hydrogen Calixarene crystals snatch up CO and CO2 but let H2 run right on through Chemical & Engineering News - American Chemical Society
6/15/04 Lynntech Industries Secures Series A Equity Financing Chrysalix Energy, Braemar Energy Ventures, Altira invest $5.5 million to establish independent fuel cell test solutions company
6/14/04 Scientists develop gasless hydrogenation technique "By producing supercritical carbon dioxide and hydrogen at the same time, the chemists say they are able to negate the need for high-pressure gas cylinders" Platinum Today (Johnson Matthey)
6/14/04 DTE Energy Breaks Ground on Hydrogen Technology Park in Southfield
6/14/04 Westport Participates in Vancouver Hydrogen Bus Demonstration Funded by SDTC "The Vancouver-based project includes the proposed demonstration of up to five transit buses fuelled with a blend of hydrogen and compressed natural gas known as HCNG."
6/14/04 Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation Extends Collaboration with Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. With Purchase of Two FCT Power Systems FCT
6/14/04 Proton Energy Systems Announces Distribution Agreement with GE "The 36-month agreement appoints GE as a non-exclusive distributor of Proton's products for the electric power production industry throughout the world, excluding select European countries."
6/11/04 HydrogenSource to be dissolved HydrogenSource LLC, a developer of fuel processing systems, will be dissolved following a joint decision by the company's owners, UTC Fuel Cells and Shell Hydrogen. Shell Hydrogen
6/14/04 Millennium Cell Announces Management Promotions Alicemary Leach Joins as Government Affairs Director
6/14/04 Scientists devise iridium-based catalyst "been developed by Canadian outfit PowerNova Technologies, which says that it is capable of powering a fuel-cell car for up to 500 kilometres" "composed of iridium and iron" "some scientists have questioned whether PowerNova's catalyst will be cost efficient, and whether it can form part of a practical transport solution" Platinumtoday
6/14/04 Clean Cars Lean on Dirty Old Gas PowerNova "catalyst that converts gasoline into hydrogen in a series of emissions-free reactions that can power a fuel-cell car for up to 500 kilometers" Wired News
6/14/04 Beads may one day fuel our cars "Two Alfred University professors have received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop technology that would use such beads as a way to store the hydrogen that would power upcoming generations of cars." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
6/14/04 FUELCELL ENERGY INC filed a form 10-Q on Jun 14 2004 at 9:35AM sec.gov
6/13/04 New Calif. fuel rules challenge automakers They're expected to fight regulations that cut carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent Detroit News
6/13/04 Fuel-cell future belongs at Mines Rocky Mountain News
6/12/04 Facing Some Of The Hard Truths About Energy by Lee R. Raymond, Exxon Mobil CEO "Many have great hopes for hydrogen and it does have some considerable promise, but only some decades in the future. First, hydrogen is not an energy source. . . ." Petroleumworld
6/11/04 Much of Coastal U.S. May Follow California on Car Emissions "This year, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Connecticut have said they intend to start following California's car rules instead of Washington's. New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine already do so." NY Times
6/12/04 Love for fuel ITM Power Financial Times
6/12/04 ITM Power raises £10m in Aim debut Financial Times
6/12/04 A Landmark Zoo Building Becomes a Rain Forest Portal "The building will also be designed with fuel cells providing electricity, geothermal heat pumps and foam skylights seasonally adjusting to heat and cold." New York Times
6/12/04 Japanese automakers tout fuel-efficient cars in Beijing "Nissan Motor Co is promoting its environmentally friendly technologies at the exhibition by presenting its Effis car that runs on fuel cell batteries." Japan Today
6/12/04 AEC Perfecting Hydrogen from Water Alternate Energy Corporation has derived a means of generating hydrogen through a proprietary metallurgic alloy composed of readily available elements. "The alloy apparently 'creates a magnetic field' that is involved in catalyzing the splitting of the hydrogen from the two oxygen molecules of water." Pure Energy Systems News Service
6/12/04 'Limited plays' in alternative energy field "It's a question of, within the next decade, to what extent will they have a commercially viable fuel cell that is used extensively in cars?" London [Ontario] Free Press
6/11/04 Chavous: Council to review controversial fuel cell project "The nation's first attempt to wed refueling of hydrogen-powered vehicles with a regular gas station is being met with increasing political opposition in the Northeast Washington neighborhood where the station is nearing completion. A group of about 50 residents who live near the Benning Road site, adjacent to River Terrace Elementary School, extracted pledges last night during a public meeting from their councilman and two of his election challengers that they will join the neighborhood fight to expel the federally funded experiment from their neighborhood." The Common Denominator
6/11/04 U.S. markets honor Reagan Financial markets to be closed Friday [June 11, 2004] for 40th President's funeral service CNN
6/11/04 Hydrogen Economy Unlikely to Face Legal Liability Roadblocks, Says New BTI Study "A focus on the 'negative' qualities of hydrogen is a red herring" BTI
6/9/04 Finmeccanica's Ansaldo launches stationary hydrogen fuel cell production "for use in stationary locations, such as hospitals and apartment blocks . . . 'The capacity now is (units producing a total of) 3 MegaWatt per year and this will rise to 15 MegaWatt when the plant is completed in 2006' . . . The unit already has orders for eight of the 500 KW units, which will be acquired by institutions in Spain, Turkey, Italy and elsewhere for testing reliability and control of costs . . ." AFX News via Fuel Cell Today
6/9/04 HydrogenSource, a UTC-Shell fuel processor joint venture, will be dissolved
6/11/04 UK Stocks Are Mixed . . . "ITM Power Plc (ITM LN) . . . rose 2.5 pence, or 5 percent, to 52.5 in its first day of trading on London's Alternative Investment Market." Bloomberg
6/11/04 ITM Power Commences Trading On Aim Friday 11 June £10 Million Raised Through Placing Of 20,000,000 New Ordinary Shares, Offer Oversubscribed
6/10/04 Fuel cell car drives 6,214 miles Opel HydroGen3 UPI
6/10/04 As Oil Prices Rise, a Sense of Alarm in Asia "recent terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia have awakened the region to the possibility that an attack on Middle Eastern oil shipments could deprive the region of oil at any price" NY Times (free registration required)
6/10/04 Stuart Energy Systems reduces loss, boosts sales; expects growth to continue CP
6/10/04 Intel, Startup Codevelop Advanced Battery Tech "Intel Corp. has signed a collaborative partnership to develop batteries based upon zinc oxide, the first examples of which will be demonstrated this fall." Ziff Davis Media
6/10/04 Power to the people "developers are putting their efforts into liquid fuel cells, and in particular direct methanol. Neat methanol, without taking into account the necessary fuel cell hardware, has a theoretical capacity of 6kWh/kg. . . Developers cannot use neat methanol, as it is highly toxic. Existing fuel cell membranes cannot prevent the gas permeating straight into the area around the user's mouth. . ." e4engineering.com
6/10/04 Cabinet approves nuclear plant "If PBMR can prove that it can produce hydrogen at commercial levels it may potentially offer a huge source of revenue to the company." IAfrica South African News
6/8/04 NHA Says: Hydrogen Now One Step Closer to the Fueling Pump National Hydrogen Association
6/10/04 Stuart Energy Systems quarterly loss reduced to $7.8 million from $11.4M CP
6/10/04 Stuart Energy Reviews Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2004 Delivers 174% Revenue Growth, Achieves Positive Margins and Cuts Cash Utilization in Half
6/10/04 ReliOn Receives $363,781 CERL Contract Funding Allows Fuel Cell Testing at Multiple Military Base Applications
6/9/04 Fuel Cells Canada Announces Retirement of Dr. Ron Britton, President and CEO
6/9/04 CLEAN ENERGY: EUROPE'S LEADING PLANT IN TERNI Ansaldo Fuel Cells Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
6/9/04 New Battery Technology in Development to Potentially Double Laptop Run Times "agreement with Intel Corporation to develop a new battery technology for laptop computers . . . polymer-based rechargeable alkaline battery technology that is very similar to common flashlight battery chemistry, but, has demonstrated about two times the energy to volume of today's lithium-based laptop batteries in lab tests" Zinc Matrix Power, Inc.
6/9/04 Stuart Energy Announces the Launch of the Hydrogen Road SHOW This Weekend at Santa Rosa's Health and Harmony Festival
6/9/04 Hydrogen Car Buyers Out of Their Element? Fueling the $150,000 Shelby Cobra will be tough with only 13 stations in the state Los Angeles Times (free registration required)
6/9/04 Excuse me, how far to the hydrogen station? Opel's Zafira shows the fuel cell works, but it's not a great commuter option just yet. Chicago Tribune via Los Angeles Times
6/9/04 Astris Energi CEO to present at Fuel Cell 2004 conference "the merits of AFC technology are beginning to be recognized, and that AFC technology is entering the period of its renaissance"
6/9/04 Federal grant fuels UVic alternative energy research The Ring
6/8/04 Incentive Program Launched to Encourage Hydrogen Nozzles That Meet Industry Standard California Fuel Cell Partnership
6/9/04 State wants to get on the hydrogen highway Albany Times Union
6/9/04 Uni-Solar Ovonic Awarded $4.45 Million Contract From Air Force Research Laboratory The contract will continue funding the development of lightweight and high- efficiency solar cells and solar modules for airship and space applications
6/9/04 Intelligent Energy pulls flotation The Times
6/9/04 Delayed float adds to City gloom "Fuel cell technology firm Intelligent Energy has abandoned plans to float on the stock market later this month, sending a tremor through the City..." This is London
6/9/04 Hydrogen-powered engine for new Cobra boosts profile of clean energy "The death of the American gas guzzler came a step closer yesterday with the launch of the Hydrogen Shelby Cobra" The Independent
6/8/04 New York Judge Rules Favorably on New York RPS " Administrative Law Judge ruled favorably on the renewable energy requirement announced by Governor George Pataki to generate 25% of New York's electricity from renewable sources by 2013, up from about 18%." SolarAccess.com
6/8/04 Kettering seeking fuel cell funding "Two Kettering University officials planned to travel to Ann Arbor today to make their pitch for state funding of a Fuel Cell Commercialization Incubator." The Flint Journal
6/8/04 Fuel cell maker scraps IPO "Intelligent Energy has become the latest European firm to suffer from weak demand for new share issues after it cancelled a planned stock market listing." Reuters
6/8/04 ITM Raises £10 Million To Develop Unique Fuel Cell Technology "ITM Power expects to be admitted to trading on AIM at 8.00am on 11 June 2004."
6/8/04 Water to Boost Satellite Snooping "[DARPA] is working with Proton Energy Systems on the Water Rocket program, which would develop a satellite that exploits a "closed loop" regenerative fuel cell: Solar power electrolyzes water into hydrogen, then the hydrogen is converted into electricity and water." PRTN Wired
6/8/04 Palcan Unveils Engineering Design Concept Fuel Cell Extended Runtime UPS
6/8/04 Alternate Energy Corp Consortium to Produce Affordable Vehicle That Operates without Fossil Fuel "with Feel Good Cars Inc. (FGC) and others"
5/31/04 Interview: Paul Lancaster, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Corporate Secretary; Palcan Fuel Cells StockHouse
6/8/04 Northern Power Systems Announces $2.0 Million DOE Award to Advance NorthWind® 100 Wind Turbine GE Energy will Act as Subcontractor in Company's Design of Next-generation of 100kW Wind Turbine
6/8/04 Drive the Revolution The Hydrogen Car Company Launches the Hydrogen Shelby Cobra "HCC's strategic partner is Stuart Energy Systems Corporation" The Hydrogen Car Company
6/7/04 Virent shows off its hydrogen-fuel plans "discovered a way to turn sugar into hydrogen, right in the engine of a car" Wisconsin Technology Network
6/7/04 Hy-Drive Technologies Ltd. Announces Agreement with Gaskatel GmbH to develop the next generation of Hydrogen Generating Systems
6/7/04 General Hydrogen Selects Maxwell's BOOSTCAP® Ultracapacitors for Energy Management in Advanced Fuel Cell Systems Hydricity!" Systems Provide High-Efficiency Alternative for Retrofitting, Replacing Battery Power in Electric Lift Trucks and Other Industrial Applications
6/7/04 Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham Tours Hydrogen Storage and Dispensing Equipment at Air Products, Inc. USDoE
6/7/04 Plug Power fuel cells heat dairy farm Albany Business Review
6/4/04 HOGEN® RE hydrogen generator plays important role in Malaysia's Eco-house Renewable-ready electrolysis hydrogen generator fuels internal appliances [This story appeared in a Malaysian newspaper and was not distributed over news wires. H2FC obtained it directly from the company.]
6/7/04 Leading Consumer Products and Technology Companies Gather to Discuss the Impact of Materials Integrity Management on Product Development Fourth annual MIM Symposium highlights nanotechnology, fuel cell and biopharmaceutical research Entergis
6/7/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Announces Canadian and U.S. Approvals for Bulk Hauling of Compressed Gases
6/7/04 New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets Commissioner Applauds Fuel Cell Technology On Dairy Farms Plug Power Fuel Cell Provides 5kW of Electricity and Reduces Energy Costs at Local Dairy
6/7/04 Stuart Energy Plans Q4 and Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2004 Conference Call Thursday, June 10, 2004, at 10:00 am (EST)
6/7/04 Shorter road to fuel savings ArvinMeritor plasma technology closer to reality, cheaper than cell-based approach "plasma reformer that converts diesel fuel into hydrogen gas and feeds it into the engine in place of gasoline" Indianapolis Star
6/7/04 What will we drive when the oil runs out? BBC
6/7/04 USFCC Publishes Comprehensive Survey of Fuel Cell Contaminant Literature
6/5/04 Colorado aspires to be world's fuel-cell capital "The proposed Colorado Fuel Cell Research Center will be within the premises of the Colorado School of Mines. It will be a collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Gas Technology Institute, the state of Colorado and private companies." Rocky Mountain News
6/4/04 Heliocentris announces its partnership with Fuel Cell Markets Ltd
6/5/04 You'll have to be creative to profit from high gas prices "The big reason for the lack of interest in alternative energy stocks is the fact that so many companies have made slower-than-expected progress in developing their products. Few are even close to having anything ready for the mass market. This helps explain why Ballard Power, a Burnaby, B.C., company working to develop fuel cell technology, has fallen to about $13 from about $190 at the height of the tech bubble." Globe and Mail
6/5/04 IdaTech to stay in Central Oregon Bend Bulletin
6/4/04 Pierre Rivard, President & CEO, Hydrogenics Report on Business Television (robtv.com)
6/4/04 Alfred researchers awarded $2M grant "federal Department of Energy grant to develop new technology for a storage system for hydrogen to power a new generation of vehicles" Buffalo Business First
6/4/04 Losses send FuelCell shares plummeting Republican American
6/4/04 Intelligent Energy may pull float as City baulks at valuation "The bank is now trying to build a book of prospective shareholders on the basis of a £90m valuation for the business. . . ." Independent
6/4/04 Energy Sec. Abraham to View Hydrogen Dispensing and Storage Equipment in Allentown, Pa.
6/4/04 FuelCell Falters Motley Fool
6/4/04 Intelligent Energy's float 'close call' This is London
6/4/04 Digital Gas Agrees to Acquire Gas Subsidiary of SunWest Petroleum Inc. for $15.75 Million "Digital Gas intends on placing the assets into Digital Energy & Farming and eventually convert the operation into an electric company by building solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) plants at a main gathering system which will then convert the gas into electricity and heat."
6/4/04 Investment Column: Fuel cells could power Johnson Matthey's future Independent Digital (UK)
6/3/04 FuelCell shares drop on Q2 loss The stock fell $2.55 to close at $13.14 after reaching a low of $13.05 CBS MarketWatch
7/2004 Bye-Bye Batteries? Work on fuel-cell technology for notebooks is well under way. PC World
6/3/04 Toshiba Plans to Introduce Methanol-Powered Laptop by Year-End " It will initially be available only in Japan . . . The Toshiba laptop will initially be more expensive than a battery-powered model, Takeishi said. He declined to be more specific. The cost should fall to the equivalent of models powered by lithium-ion batteries by 2007, he said." Bloomberg
6/3/04 Methanol From Coal Could Fuel Hydrogen Economy Methanol Institute
6/3/04 Stuart Energy Systems Corporation Earnings Call scheduled for Thu, June 10
6/3/04 Quantum Awarded Contract From Major Automaker to Develop a Unique Hydrogen Fuel Delivery System for Fuel Cells $1.4 million contract . . . adaptation will allow precise flow of hydrogen into the vehicle's fuel cell power module enabling optimized system performance
6/3/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Announces Additional CNG Systems Orders for European Bus Market
6/3/04 World Bank Pledges Hikes in Renewable-Energy Investments "increased lending would effectively double the Bank Group's current pace of roughly US$200 million per year by 2010." GreenBiz.com
6/2/04 FuelCell Energy Reports Second Quarter 2004 Results And Accomplishments
6/3/04 Astris Energi Q1 loss widens to $580,887 from $265,131 on production ramp-up Canadian Press
6/2/04 Record Breaking Fuel Cell Run "23 days after setting off from Hammerfest in Norway, Vauxhall's HydroGen3 Zafira reached Darmstadt to set this new long distance record for fuel cell cars." carpages
6/2/04 Astris Energi reports first quarter 2004 results "Revenue from product sales decreased to $5,662 for the first quarter of 2004 from $9,074 for the first three months of 2003"
6/2/04 MEDIS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Files SEC form 8-K Development agreement with Eastman Kodak Company's Global Manufacturing Services operation sec.gov
6/2/04 SHOW - The Renewable Hydrogen Roadshow - Debuts as a 'Festival Within A Festival' at Santa Rosa, CA's Health & Harmony Festival, June 12-13 Conceived by Stuart Energy, SHOW Launches a Major Renewable Hydrogen Awareness Campaign in an Accessible, 'Edu-tainment' Format
6/2/04 MTI Microfuel Cells to Present at Batteries 2004 Conference and Exhibition in France
6/1/04 Northern Power Systems Awarded $6.0 Million Turnkey On-Site Power System Project by SC Johnson System Will Deliver Substantial Annual Energy Cost Savings and Support Manufacturer's Greenhouse Gas-Emission Reduction Goals [DESC, no H2 involved]
6/1/04 As deadline nears, GM seeks practical fuel cell vehicle "The teams developing fuel cell vehicles for General Motors face a new edict: less sci-fi, more realism. . . GM also is facing skepticism from federal officials who say automakers are unlikely to sell significant numbers of fuel cell vehicles before 2020." AutoWeek
6/1/04 Japanese Gas companies preparing to market fuel cells "Tokyo Gas Co. is getting inquiries from potential customers who seem to be interested in getting a fuel cell system at any price and want to know when the company is going to market it." Kyodo news via Fuel Cell Today
6/1/04 Nanotechnology Improving Energy Options "Nanodynamics in Buffalo, N.Y. . . manufactures a 50-watt, solid oxide fuel cell roughly the size of a loaf of bread that can generate 3,000 watt-hours of electricity from just five pounds of propane fuel" Technology Marketing Corporation
6/1/04 New Global Fuel Cell Vehicle Survey published DOE-EERE
6/1/04 InPlay: Ballard Power Systems probes 50-day sma
6/1/04 Kerry Campaign Announces Significant New Ad Buy; New Ad Highlights Kerry's Plan to Make America Stronger at Home, Respected in World "A Plan to Use Hydrogen Throughout the Nation By 2020" John Kerry for President
6/1/04 Proton Energy Systems Receives $1.1 Million to Continue Work on Contract for Advanced Fuel Cell Development Contract with the Naval Research Laboratory is funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
6/1/04 FuelCell Energy Completes Sale of Global Thermoelectric Inc. and its Thermoelectric Generator Product Line Retained Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Unit to Operate as FuelCell Energy, Ltd.
6/1/04 "ITM Power . . . had to cut the price of its shares and scale back the size of the share placing in order to get its float away. It will put a brave face on things this morning and say that, having dropped the fund raising from £15m to £10m, it found itself oversubscribed and is closing the offer early. At 50p a share, it will be worth £46m." Independent, UK
6/1/04 Stuart Energy Secures Order for Industrial Hydrogen Plant for Uong Bi Power Plant Project in Vietnam Marks Stuart Energy's 15th Industrial Project in Asia-Pacific Over Past Year for Total Sales of $10.3 Million

May 2004

5/31/04 Canadians selling non-polluting technology find receptive audience in China "The 14-company [Canadian] delegation, organized by the Ottawa-based National Research Council, attended the Hyforum 2004 symposium in Beijing and then came to Shanghai for business meetings." Ballard, Palcan, Chrysalix CP
5/31/04 Toyota Demonstrates New Fuel Battery "At the 11th Fuel Cell Symposium held from May 18-19, 2004 in Tokyo, Toyota disclosed the latest progress of fuel cell development for the first time." Nikkei
5/31/04 Fuel tech company eyes $15m "Ceramic Fuel Cells, which has spent 11 years and $128 million developing its leading edge gas-electricity conversion cell, hopes to raise $15 million at $1 a share by the middle of next month." The West Australian
5/31/04 Hydrogen shows promise in vehicle tests "The hydrogen-powered bus road show along the Chang'an Avenue . . . One of the buses was made by the international automobile giant, Daimler Chrysler, and the other by a Chinese collaboration led by a team from Tsinghua University." China Daily
5/31/04 Catching the green wave Investment in environmental technology gaining momentum "The chief executive of Nanostellar is banking on his firm's ability to develop a new type of precious metal alloy composite that will make catalysts in both cars and fuel cells much cheaper and more efficient." San Francisco Chronicle
5/31/04 Uncertainty could yet sink the markets "Spencer Abraham, the US energy secretary, made it plain last week to the FT that the Administration would not raise taxes to curb gasoline consumption. "The best way to address consumption in the longer term is to develop hydrogen fuel cell units for vehicles to bypass all these debates."" Financial Times
5/31/04 Hy-Drive Technologies Ltd. enters into Memorandum of Understanding with Sparta Capital Ltd.
5/30/04 Terror's next target "Infrastructure issues can be circumvented and hurdles to getting fuel cell vehicles on the road diminished by focusing on practical solutions as opposed to ideal ones and delivering cheap to produce hydrogen rich liquid fuels such as methanol and ethanol to fueling stations rather than tangling with pure hydrogen." The Journal of International Security Affairs, December 2003
5/30/04 Zafira Sets Fuel Cell Record "At a pause in its trek from Hammerfest in Norway to Cabo da Roca in Portugal, GM's HydroGen3 Zafira has completed the Zürich-Salzburg leg of the trip, having already set a new world distance record for a journey by a fuel cell vehicle." Car Keys
5/29/04 Toyota, Others To Set Up Hydrogen R&D Center At Kyushu Univ "Sixty or so companies, including Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), Nippon Steel Corp. (5401) and Nippon Oil Corp. (5001), will establish a hydrogen energy R&D center jointly with Kyushu University and the Fukuoka prefectural government . . . center is expected to handle R&D and testing of a range of technologies from generation to storage, transportation and use of the gas" Nikkei
5/27/04 GM "Road To Hydrogen" Tech Tour Highlights Fuel-Saving Technologies The Auto Channel
5/26/04 Buses powered by hydrogen by next year "According to an agreement signed between DaimlerChrysler and the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) Tuesday, China will purchase three hydrogen-powered, Mercedes-Benz Citaro fuel cell buses from the German auto-maker in the coming year." China Daily
5/24/04 1,800 hours operation for "Roller Pac" Hydrogen Fuel Cell on the STMicroelectronics site at Agrate near Milan in Italy Axane (fuel cell subsidiary of Air Liquide)
5/25/04 Fuel Cell Future Goodbye, Gasoline — Hello, Hydrogen Edmunds
5/29/04 High Gas Prices Spur Interest in Hybrids "Hybrids hold only a tiny share of the U.S. car and truck market, but sales have climbed 36 percent so far this year . . . Total hybrid sales in the United States reached 43,435 vehicles last year, compared with 16.7 million for the overall car and truck market." Reuters
5/29/04 A Different Era for the Alternative Energy Business "When the cost of fossil fuels rose and fell in past years, the fate of many alternative energy projects rose and fell with them. But that is no longer true. . ." NY Times
5/28/04 Palcan: would love to meet early adopters "Palcan sees itself very much as a fuel cell 'module' developer and manufacturer and a metal hydride hydrogen storage system developer and manufacturer. . . Palcan has supplied UK's Voller Energy with its fuel cell stack for integration into Voller's products and Japan's Nagase represents Palcan products in [Japan]" Fuel Cell Today
5/28/04 IdaTech considers moving shop "will decide next week whether to leave town this fall after the company was unable to agree to a new lease with its landlord . . ." Bend Bulletin
5/28/04 Energy advances need joint efforts "China is willing to work with other countries to boost hydrogen-based energy production, a senior official from Ministry of Science and Te chnology (MST) said. . . direct coal-to-hydrogen process in particular . . . On Wednesday, the Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation under the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Beijing-based Tsinghua University to jointly develop codes and standards on safety, infrastructure and testing of fuel cells and hydrogen industry. Another MOU was also inked on the same day between Canada's Westport Innovation, Inc and Tsinghua University on collaboratively developing and demonstrating hydrogen-powered buses." China Daily
5/28/04 Astris Energi reports fiscal 2003 and restated 2002 results
5/28/04 Solar Concentrators Tackle the Hydrogen Test Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation (SHEC) SolarAccess.com
5/28/04 Opel sets 2010 target for bringing FCV to market Auto Industry
5/28/04 Will Stempel's auto vision, costly gas bring firm success? High-tech energy company aims to lead hybrid world Detroit News
5/27/04 DOE should say "GO" for further research in on-board fuel processing for fuel cell vehicles "Clearly, the use of methanol as a hydrogen carrier fuel offers significant benefits." Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
5/27/04 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN FCDIC
5/27/04 HYDRO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES INC Files Annual Report sec.gov
5/27/04 High Fuel Costs Put Focus on Renewable Energy Reuters
5/27/04 Hy-Drive Announces HGS Test to Own Program; Board of Directors Accelerates Expiry Date of Warrants
5/27/04 Itochu, Hitachi Zosen Demonstration Test of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Japan Corporate News
5/27/04 Micro fuel cells headed to market, and a showdown "David Redstone, editor of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Investor, gives Medis the edge. . ." Small Times
5/27/04 Fuel-cell technology: The glass is half full......with methanol fuel detailed discussion of using fuel cells with portable electronics EDN
5/27/04 Grant supplies fuel cell study Florida Tech secures $900,000 grant from NASA Florida Today
5/27/04 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Invites You to Hear Second Quarter Results On Its Web Broadcast Conference Call On Thursday, June 3, 2004, at 10:00 a.m. EDT
5/26/04 Hydrogenics stock surges on ChevronTexaco project Reuters
5/26/04 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 5/15/04 NASDAQ
5/26/04 Kodak links with fuel cell firm "The deal marks an encouraging milestone in Kodak's plan for reshaping the local work force to cope with the growth of digital photography. . . The arrangement with Medis is the first major deal to evolve from that project" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
5/26/04 Hydrogenics to Design and Build Hydrogen Generation System for ChevronTexaco Project for U.S. Department of Energy
5/26/04 Tekron Inc. Provides Neighborhood Energy "has successfully planned and priced 4 projects totally 18 million dollars US . . . The systems, incorporating fuel cells, gas micro-turbines and renewable energy technologies, could range from multi-megawatt capacity that serve major industrial complexes down to the 10 kW capacity for individual households."
5/26/04 India for national hydrogen energy road map Business Standard
5/5/04 Interview: Jiri K. Nor, Astris President & CEO 12:13 StockHouse
5/24/04 Stocks to watch Wednesday: PLUG Investor's Business Daily
5/25/04 Dr. John Stannard of Fuel Cell Technologies is interviewed by WallStreetReporter
5/25/04 Bush camp takes on Kerry over oil reserves "Kerry's Tax Credit And Grant Proposals Are Part Of The President's Comprehensive Energy Plan. "To encourage the purchase of such vehicles, the Administration is proposing the following tax credits: (1) A credit of up to $4,000 would be provided for the purchase of qualified hybrid vehicles after December 31, 2003 and before January 1, 2009." "(2) A credit of up to $8,000 would be provided for the purchase of new qualified fuel cell vehicles after December 31st, 2003 and before January 1, 2013." (Page 252 of the FY 05 budget, "Analytical Perspectives")" Bend.com
5/25/04 InPlay: Medis Tech and Kodak announce fuel cell agreement Briefing.com
5/25/04 Medis Technologies, Kodak Announce Fuel Cell Development Agreement "for advancing the development of refueling cartridges and chemicals, including those for fuel and liquid electrolyte that Medis has patented, to be used in its proprietary fuel cell products"
5/25/04 Hydrogenics Supplies Quantum With Fuel Cell Power Module for U.S. Army Concept Vehicle
5/25/04 DTE Energy to Sell Portion of Plug Power Ownership as Part of its Cash Generation Plan "After the sale, DTE Energy Ventures' ownership position totals 10.6 million shares, or 14.5 percent, down from 19.4 percent ownership." DTE Energy [sale already complete]
5/25/04 DTE cuts Plug Power stake by 25 pct Reuters
5/25/04 DaimlerChrysler sends fuel cell buses to Beijing AutoAsia
5/25/04 Ballard Fuel Cell Product Receives Two Frost & Sullivan Awards Nexa® RM Series Named 2004 Energy Product of the Year and 2004 Alternative Technology of the Year
5/25/04 Zacks Sell List Highlights: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, AT&T, Ballard Power Systems, and Maxtor Corporation
5/25/04 Alternate Energy Acquires Vehicle and Onsite Electricity Generation Rights to Its Hydrogen Generation Process 5/24/04 GM sets fuel cell vehicle distance record "The HydroGen3, a version of GM's Opel Zafira minivan, completed 3,400 miles when it arrived in Darmstadt Monday . . ." Detroit News
5/24/04 Ener1 optimistic amid wider losses S. Florida Business Journal
5/24/04 Ener1 Reports First Quarter Financial Results Company Advances Battery and Fuel Cell Technologies for Automotive Applications
5/24/04 Uni-Solar Ovonic Receives Order for 2.4 Megawatt of Flexible Thin-Film Solar Products from Solar Integrated Technologies
5/24/04 New fuel cell driven fork lift truck presented by the partners PROTON MOTOR Fuel Cell GmbH, STILL GmbH and Linde AG
5/24/04 Hydrogenics Power Module Selected for Stationary Fuel Cell Demonstration Project in Japan
5/24/04 Cellex Power Products, Inc. to field trial efficient and zero emission hydrogen fuel cells at a Wal-Mart Distribution Center "for powering electric lift trucks"
5/24/04 S. Korea to Spend US$544 MLN to Develop New Car Tech by 2010 "The project consists of nine tasks including three core developments -- the creation of fuel-cell cars, hybrid vehicles and intelligent automobiles." Asia Pulse
5/24/04 Canada Expects Hydrogen Energy Cooperation With China Asia Pulse
5/23/04 Big 3 see tax hike as fuel-saving plan "Although pollution-free hydrogen-powered cars are still a far-off dream, the government’s primary way to reduce greenhouse gases and U.S. dependence on foreign oil is promoting fuel-cell cars. . . Abraham made clear that he would not follow a fuel reduction plan that is standard practice in Europe and Japan: a steep increase in gasoline taxes to encourage consumers to buy efficient cars." Detroit News
5/22/04 Fuel Cell Marathon Has A Triumphant British Leg CarPages
5/22/04 U.S. Energy Secretary Abraham Signs Department's First-Ever Bilateral Agreement with Norway "Under the non-binding MOU, the U.S. and Norway will conduct joint research in . . . carbon sequestration." DOE
5/21/04 Canada expects hydrogen energy cooperation with China Xinhua, China
5/21/04 Radical cell to turn balance of power in Europe Ceramic Fuel Cells The Age
5/21/04 Plug Power on more solid footing for '04 CEO reports fuel-cell company has $90 million in cash and a wider product placement Albany Times Union
5/21/04 Nobuyuki - Norm - Denda, Former Intel K.K. Chairman, to Represent PolyFuel in Japan Noted Technology Marketing Expert Sees PolyFuel's Performance-leading Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) Membranes as Critical for Japan OEM's and Fuel Cell Manufacturers
5/21/04 ReliOn CTO Mike Davis Elected Chairman of National Hydrogen Association
5/21/04 Hydrogenics: Announcement of Annual meeting on 5/27/04, also Proxy Circular sec.gov
5/21/04 Mechanical Technology Incorporated: Inviation to Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
5/21/04 Powering up Wind, Solar Maryland Gazette
6/10/04 Crossing the Red Line The New York Review of Books [Excellent review of recent books on energy and global warming. H2FC Ed.]
5/20/04 Backup Power for the Wireless Tower New solutions may fill the gap left by the failure of traditional sources SYS-CON Media
5/20/04 Clean and Silent two-wheelers of the future from Yamaha "[Scooter] model mounts a direct methanol type fuel cell (DMFC) unit with an output of 500W on a 50cc size bike" Gizmo
5/20/04 Top Ballard officers pocket retention bonuses "Ballard . . . paid out more than $3-million in retention bonuses to its top three executives last year" Globe and Mail
5/20/04 Bush's Blind Hydrogen Vision "instead of investing in basic research that will generate hydrogen from renewable resources, the Department of Energy is primarily funding projects that either use the very fossil fuels we currently depend on or are simply "window dressing" demonstrations of technology that will never work." AlterNet.org
5/20/04 ENER1 INC Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/20/04 Sunshine State Targets Hydrogen Opportunities "Enterprise Florida approved the designation of the hydrogen energy industry as a Qualified Target Industry (QTI). The designation provides financial incentives for businesses investing in Florida's hydrogen economy." SolarAccess.com
5/19/04 Future Car links to several PBS stories about Hybrids, H2 and FCs PBS
5/20/04 Rising Gas Prices Fuel Viability of Alternatives Bob Stempel, Energy Conversion Devices Newhouse News Service
5/20/04 Plug displays energy station at shareholders meeting Albany Business Review
5/20/04 Hearing held on hydrogen boat motor technology bill “Fuel cells don’t equal wilderness. A more visible plan would be to use fuel cells to power buses in the park.” Grand Canyon News
5/20/04 Hydrogen stations on the Pike? "group of Republican state senators from Massachusetts has sponsored a plan to promote the use of hydrogen-fueled cars . . ." Daily News Tribune
5/20/04 Fuel Cell Transportation Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2007 to 2013 Total Vehicle Fuel Cell Markets will grow to $98 billion by 2013 Research and Markets
5/19/04 Why your laptop is always running out of juice. "The battery industry admits that it is improving power capacity by a measly 8 percent a year. . . But fuel cells have their own downside. If they're made with hydrogen, they produce water as a byproduct, so you'd have to cope with your laptop urinating. . ." Slate
5/19/04 Clean energy autos to race in Shanghai Challenge Bibendum in October China Daily
5/13/04 PacifiCorp Ventures Indicate Wind Power is Economically Viable UtiliPoint
5/19/04 Los Alamos Creates Fuel-Cell Research Institute "aimed at addressing technical issues better and broadening the use of hydrogen and fuel cells." Albuquerque Journal
5/19/04 Plug Power announces class action lawsuit settlement "the amount was well within the company's liability insurance coverage . . . The class action stems from shareholder lawsuits filed in 2000 alleging that top officials liquidated their stock using insider information about the timeline of the company's plans for supplying General Electric Co." Albany Business Review
5/19/04 Renault buys stake in Nuvera Fuel Cells "Renault has purchased a 10 percent stake in Cambridge-based Nuvera Fuel Cells Inc." Boston Business Journal
5/19/04 Plug Power Settles Shareholder Litigation "the settlement will be covered by the Company's primary insurance policy. The final settlement is expected to have no effect on the Company's financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity"
5/19/04 National Research Council furthers Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. commercialization
5/19/04 Editorial: Gasoline Hysteria "If $2-per-gallon sticker shock slowed sales of Hummers — which get about 11 miles per gallon — that would hardly qualify as a national tragedy. Still, even Americans who don't drive gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s are feeling pain at the pump, and responsible political leaders have to prepare the public for this new reality." NY Times
5/19/04 Renault and Nuvera Strengthen Ties for Joint Fuel Cell Research Venture
5/19/04 Mini-batteries for mobile phones Innovations Report
5/19/04 Stuart Energy Joins Toyota's Fuel Cell Vehicle Community "Stuart Energy's California-based staff will drive the FCHV and provide on-road operational data to Toyota on the vehicle's performance. In addition, Stuart Energy will use the vehicle in customer and public demonstrations of its Stuart Energy Station (SES-f) hydrogen fueling product line. "
5/19/04 Quantum Delivers Hydrogen Refueling System to General Motors "This transportable unit will be used to refuel GM's fuel cell vehicles in Washington, D.C., which are equipped with Quantum's line of 10,000-psi hydrogen fuel systems."
5/19/04 Fuel Cell Fuel Sources Market Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2007 to 2013 Research and Markets Ltd.
5/18/04 WestStart-CALSTART Announces an Innovative $2 Million Effort to Demonstrate Clean Vehicle Technology "to assist in the smart development of non-polluting fuel cell power systems for future transit bus use"
5/18/04 Medis: Proxy Statement and Notice of 2004 Annual Meeting of Stockholders To be Held on June 30, 2004 sec.gov
5/18/04 Medis Technologies Ltd. Financials EDGAR Online Financials via Yahoo!
5/18/04 Plug Power Inc. Financials EDGAR Online Financials via Yahoo!
5/18/04 Enova Systems Reports 2004 First-Quarter Results and Other Notable Developments discussion of fuel cell related activities
5/18/04 Illinois Coalition Wins Grant to Develop Solar and Wind Powered Hydrogen Station in Rockford "Hydrogen Highway'' Gains Momentum The Illinois Coalition
5/18/04 Webcast Alert: Energy Conversion Devices Third Quarter Fiscal 2004 Operating Results Webcast 10:00 AM ET
5/13/04 Samsung Institute's New Fuel Cell Can Output 20W, Run Notebook PC for 10 Hours Nikkei Electronics
5/17/04 University of Delaware and Delaware State University Receive Multimillion-Dollar Research Grants from BP and the BP Foundation "The University of Delaware will conduct research on hydrogen policy initiatives and fuel cell catalysts, while Delaware State University will undertake research on hydrogen storage materials." BP America
5/17/04 Manhattan Scientifics: Quarterly report for the period ending 3/31/04 sec.gov
5/17/04 SatCon: Transcript of quarterly conference call held 5/11/04 Filed with SEC in on 8-K sec.gov
5/17/04 Energy secretary touts Bush's support for fuel cells in Detroit "Abraham said Bush's support for fuel cells offers a long-term solution to the nation's energy problems." [Which of course is nonsense. H2FC Ed.] AP via Detroit Free Press
5/17/04 'Renewable' Becomes New Energy Priority "China has established renewable energy as a basic national policy and a new law is being created to provide legal support to developing it." China Daily
5/17/04 Energy Conversion Devices Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2004 Operating Results
5/17/04 ECD Ovonics and Other Parties to the Arbitration Request ICC to Extend Date for Issuance of Decision Parties engaged in settlement negotiations
5/17/04 Oil Strikes New High on Supply Fears $41.85 Reuters
5/17/04 Renewable Hydrogen -- The Right Future? "Should the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and other renewable energy advocates promote the development of hydrogen generated from renewable energy sources?" Solar Today, published by the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) via SolarAccess.com
5/17/04 Getting Fueled Again? BLDP, FCEL, PLUG "Yes, the stocks may appear to be running on empty, but as far as "story stocks" go, these are fuel-packed." Motley Fool
5/17/04 Hy-Wire Driving Is a Gas Wired News
5/17/04 ALTERNATE ENERGY CORP Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report
5/17/04 Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. Announces $1 Million in Financing Renewal of Research Contract with the University of California, Riverside --UCR-- and Grant of Matching Funds
5/17/04 Possible surplus seen on platinum market in 2004 Reuters
5/17/04 Astris Energi announces VAR arrangement with Alternate Energy for demonstration and deployment of economical hydrogen solution into marketplace Astris Energi Inc.
5/17/04 AEC and Astris Energi Announce VAR Arrangement for Demonstration and Deployment of Economical Hydrogen Solution Into Marketplace Alternate Energy Corporation
5/14/04 FUELCELL ENERGY INC Files SEC form 8-K, Acquisition or Disposition of Assets and Financial Statements & Exhibits Global Thermoelectric acquisition
5/14/04 ENER1 INC Files SEC form 10KSB/A, Annual Report
5/16/04 Islanders are Wind Power Guinea Pigs "Ten homes on a remote island are to be cut off from their electricity grid for two years to see if they can rely solely on wind power. . . During windy times, excess energy will be converted into hydrogen by electrolysis" Scotland on Sunday
5/15/04 Hydrogen cars vision for Tassie Hobart Mercury, Australia
5/14/04 Markets are braced for long stay above $40 "Crude oil futures are at their highest continuous level since crude futures trading began in 1983." Financial Times
5/14/04 PACIFIC FUEL CELL CORP Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/14/04 Ford delivers positive news $1.9-billion profit, plans announced "Bill Ford defended the company's environmental position, saying it was investing heavily in technology to develop gasoline-electric hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles." Detroit Free Press
5/14/04 Fuel cell symposium planned for May 25 Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition Columbus Business First
5/13/04 Delphi to Help Fund Kettering University Center for Fuel Cell Systems and Powertrain Integration
5/13/04 Fuel Cell Technologies Reports First Quarter 2004 Results
5/13/04 Smaller companies spotlight "[ITM Power] has proved such an attraction and demand so high that brokers Durlacher have included a series of European roadshows to back those in the UK, and having already placed £7m worth of shares, are now going for £10m before the float, rescheduled for mid-June." This is Money
5/13/04 MTI advances on mini fuel cell Albany Times Union
5/13/04 Wind farm bid divides MPs "[One dummy] pointed out that wind energy was not constant, and urged the development of other alternative energy sources such as fuel cell technology" East Anglian Daily Times
5/12/04 Pennsylvania business news in brief "Atofina Chemicals Inc. said Wednesday it will share in a $5.8 million grant awarded as part of the federal government's FreedomCAR and Hydrogen Fuel initiatives. The grant will be divided among Atofina, United Technologies Corp.'s fuel cell business, Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Inc., Georgia Tech and the University of Hawaii" AP
5/12/04 Fuel Cells Could Be Next Power Source For Laptops ABI Research says some Japanese companies are pumping millions into R&D, and that by 2012, as many as 15% of laptops could use fuel cells for power TechWeb News
5/12/04 How I almost wrecked a $3.5 million car Christian Science Monitor
5/12/04 Fuel Cell Technologies Amends Stock Option Plan and Grants Options
5/12/04 Fuel cells face challenge on way to mainstream CNET
5/12/04 Senate-Passed Energy-Efficiency Tax Incentives Benefit Consumers, Environment, National Security, Says Alliance to Save Energy "Included in the energy tax package, which the Senate attached to the foreign sales corporation/extraterritorial income (FSC/ETI) bill, are tax incentives for hybrid and fuel cell vehicles . . . " Alliance to Save Energy
5/12/04 Sulphur fuels battery breakthrough "Sion Power Corporation has demonstrated a new generation of batteries based on Li-S (Lithium Sulfur) technology. The demonstration at WinHEC last week powered a Transmeta Crusoe-based Tablet PC for a working day. Long anticipated as the lighter successor to Lithium Polymer, Sion claims that the Li-S battery pack at 350 watt hours/kg compared to 150 Wh/kg for today's Li-Poly batteries, and are good for 300 power cycles. . ." The Register
4/19/04 COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF DANGEROUS GOODS AND ON THE GLOBALLY HARMONIZED SYSTEM OF CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING OF CHEMICALS Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods, Twenty-fifth session, 5-14 July 2004, Item 6 of the provisional agenda: New entries for fuel cell cartridges and fuel cell powered devices United Nations
5/12/04 10-15% of Laptops Will Run on Micro Fuel Cells in 2012, Forecasts ABI Research "Though the technology's initial promise was demonstrated by US-based companies, Japanese firms have taken the lead more recently." [Completely wrong in H2FC's view].
5/12/04 U.S. Department of Energy Awards $5.77 Million Grant to Atofina and its Development Partners for Fuel Cell Project R&D to Support President's FreedomCAR and Hydrogen Fuel Initiatives
5/12/04 MTI MicroFuel Cells Announces Lead Supply Chain Partners for First Product Launch "DuPont Fuel Cells anchors a team of carefully selected and qualified supply chain partners that have joined with MTI Micro in pursuit of its initial product launch. . . MTI Micro also has entered into a manufacturing agreement with Flextronics for launching its initial product. . . The assembly of MTI Micro's unique and proprietary fuel cells will occur at Flextronics' specialized Product Introduction Center in San Jose, California."
5/12/04 GM “Road to Hydrogen” Tech Tour Spotlights Hybrids, Fuel Cells DOE Grant Assists GM Fuel Cell Development GM
5/12/04 MTI Reports First Quarter 2004 Results and Progress Cites Awards, Contracts and Manufacturing Agreement Supporting Micro Fuel Cell Commercialization "conference call and web cast today at 10:30 a.m."
5/13/04 Power Play: General Motors gets serious about fuel cells New Haven Advocate
5/12/04 Revolution Under the Hood In Major Wave of Innovation, Car Makers Explore New Ways To Cut Fuel Use and Pollution "Car makers from the U.S., Japan and Europe are pouring billions of dollars into futuristic propulsion systems, everything from more-efficient gasoline engines to gas-and-electric hybrid cars to the most far-out idea of all, the hydrogen-powered fuel cell." Wall Street Journal, page B1
5/12/04 Shifting the energy paradigm "An important example of technology cooperation is the Fuel Cell Annex to the US-EU Non-Nuclear Energy Cooperation Agreement. . . " Taipei Times
5/12/04 Car not first application for fuel cells Innovations-Report
5/12/04 Nominations for f-cell Award invited Cordis News, EU
4/29/04 “The Hydrogen Age” Documentary Premieres at Universal Studios as part of NHA’s Annual Conference
5/12/04 Hydrogen Research Endorsed by the Upper Midwest Hydrogen Initiative University of North Dakota, Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)
5/12/04 Neah Power Systems Named 2004 'Start Up Company of the Year' "by Alliance of Angels (AoA), a non-profit organization that connects promising early-stage technology companies with seed capital in the Pacific Northwest"
5/11/04 What's Next for Consumer Gadgets? "Despite recent talk about advances in fuel cells as a potential power source for portable devices, [Motorola's] DeMuro suggests "batteries are here to stay for the foreseeable future." . . . DeMuro expects to see new form factors in batteries and in recharging technology. Curved batteries, device-to-device recharging, and wireless recharging are some of the technologies he expects to emerge." PC World
5/11/04 Fuel cell development for naval ships "Several types of fuel cell produce electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen over a platinum catalyst." Platinum Today
5/11/04 Greek Fuel Cell Submarine Launch "propulsion is provided by a Siemens Permasyn engine which draws its power supply either from the fuel cells or from batteries which are fed by a diesel generator" SolarAccess.com
5/11/04 POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL INC Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/11/04 BP Steps Up Investment In China "BP will design, construct, operate and supply hydrogen refuelling facilities for the project which will see hydrogen powered vehicles operating in Beijing and Shanghai." BP
5/11/04 GM embarks on fuel cell vehicle marathon DetNews.com
5/11/04 SatCon Technology Reports Second Quarter Operating Results 52% Increase in Revenue and 90% Decrease in Operating Loss over the Same Period Last Year
5/11/04 HyRadix Hydrogen Generator Operational at SunLine Transit
5/11/04 Fuel cell developer announces initial public offer Ceramic Fuel Cells ferret.com.au
5/10/04 BLDP: Coverage Reiterated at Underperform
5/10/04 Ford & BP To Build Hydrogen Fleets & Fueling Stations in California, Florida, & Michigan Part Of U.S. Department Of Energy Hydrogen Project chemie.de
5/10/04 Rural energy conference spots hope in alternative fuels "group at the university has been experimenting with fuel cells and has been recently working with a 5 kilowatt solid oxide fuel cell that has been in operation since last August at Fairbanks Natural Gas, a local gas distribution company. The fuel cell has operated without a flaw for 6,000 hours, an important accomplishment" Alaska Journal of Commerce
5/10/04 Department of Energy Officials to Testify Before Congressional Committees "Doug Faulkner, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, is scheduled to testify on May 15, 2004, before the House Resources Subcomittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands. He will testify at a field hearing on the use of hydrogen fuel cell technology in the national park system." US-DOE
5/10/04 UK fuel cell IPO would be in world top 6 in sector "Fuel cell firm Intelligent Energy Ltd said on Monday it planned a London stock market listing valuing it at around 200 million pounds ($350 million), making it one of the world top six in its sector and Europe's biggest." Reuters
5/10/04 Palcan Fuel Cells Adds Paul Lancaster to Management Team
5/10/04 Webcast Alert: Energy Conversion Devices Third Quarter Fiscal 2004 Operating Results Webcast Tuesday, May 18, 2004 @ 10:00 a.m. Eastern
5/10/04 Ener1 Files Two Patents for New Fuel Cell Technology Company Advances IP Portfolio With PEM Cold Start Capabilities and Alkaline Control System
5/10/04 MGE UPS Systems' Pulsar EX RT/Fuel Cell Powered UPS Named a Finalist in the Best of Interop Awards for Networld+Interop 2004 Las Vegas First Online Fuel Cell Powered UPS to be Demonstrated During 3-Day Exhibit "by Ballard Power Systems' Nexa® RM Series fuel cell modules" MGE UPS Systems Inc.
5/10/04 Casio Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cell For Laptop PCs "has been miniaturized to almost the same size as a conventional lithium ion battery. Its capacity is nearly four times higher than that of a conventional battery, and it can power a typical laptop computer for eight to 16 hours. . . Under current law, methanol is treated as a dangerous substance because it is flammable. This requires manufacturers to take excessive safety measures. Government regulators, including the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, are considering deregulation as early as 2007 so that fuel cells will come into wide use. Casio hopes to bring its fuel cell to market after that." Nikkei
5/10/04 Casio develops tiny fuel cell Should be marketed in 2007 "A device which extracts hydrogen from methanol and sends hydrogen to the main fuel cell is included in the unit." The Inquirer
5/10/04 Intelligent Energy Seeks Admission To AIM "The flotation will be effected by means of a placing of new and existing shares in a new holding company to institutional investors in the U.K. and internationally. . . Admission is expected to become effective in June 2004." Dow Jones
5/10/04 Medis Technologies Reports First Quarter Results "With the addition of our relationship with Flextronics International which has a major operational group in Israel, we now have a team which is capable of taking our disposable Power Pack products to the completion of production engineering and to high volume production."
5/10/04 Medis-Flextronics Product and Manufacturing Development Agreement filed with medis 10-Q sec.gov
5/10/04 PLUG POWER INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/10/04 Evolution of a hydrogen revolution ITM Power, Ballard: "Ballard not only wants the hydrogen revolution to take off, it also desperately needs it to. As Mr Campbell puts it: "If we can't make this fuel cell technology happen with car companies, then there is no future for Ballard."" The Guardian
5/9/04 Cal students to develop fuel cell Group gets $25,000 to work on technology Daily Review
5/8/04 Reports on Zafira Fuel Cell Marathon "The first important lesson on this marathon: it’s a surprise how much hydrogen the Zafira of the future uses up. Uphill driving and high speed drain the tank much faster than had been anticipated." AutoBuild
5/8/04 Inventors in drive to save energy "this hydrogen-powered [scooter] prototype is at the cutting edge of renewable energy technology -- and it was designed and made in Tasmania" Hobart Mercury, Australia
5/8/04 SunLine begins refreshing fleet "SunLine also plans to replace five compressed natural gas buses at a price tag of $350,000 each, and add five state-of-the-art hydrogen buses in the next two years. " The Desert Sun
5/8/04 SME events to address manufacturing changes "The second new event, planned for October, will focus on the challenges and opportunities associated with fuel cells and other alternative energy sources." Macomb Daily
5/8/04 Ballard Power reports loss as engineering revenue plummets The Globe and Mail
5/7/04 GM Fuel Cell Powers Tribeca Drive-In Theater (Sort Of) The road to hydrogen-powered cars. Popular Mechanics
5/6/04 WEBCAST PRESENTATION by Hydrogenics CFO Gary Brandt at Smith Barney Citigroup Small and Mid-Cap Conference
5/7/04 Military bill would allocate $9M to programs involving area businesses "Plug Power of Latham will use its share of the funding to develop modular fuel-cell systems in a variety of sizes"Albany Business Review
5/7/04 Clean energy source developed / Saga U.'s ocean thermal power generation project drawing attention " important side benefit of the system, when put into practical use, is expected to be the production of hydrogen, which will be in high demand as fuel cell-powered cars become common." Daily Yomiuri
5/7/04 World's hydrogen fuel stations up by 33 pct to 87 Reuters
5/7/04 Dynetek Achieves Highest Q1 Revenue in Company History
5/7/04 Fuel Cell Technologies Limited and Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation Extend Joint Development Agreement
5/7/04 Digital Energy & Farming and Energy Savings & Security Sign Agreement for up to $2.25 Billion in Funding "intent to develop solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) based electric and heat generators for the home, small business and industrial markets"
5/7/04 Fuel Cells for Mobile Warfare Applications Protonex SolarAccess.com
5/5/04 Fuel Cell Market Survey: Automotive Hydrogen Infrastructure Fuel Cell Today
5/7/04 Ballard Power Systems reports Q1 loss grows to $37.2M US, up from $22.6M CP
5/7/04 Ballard Power's Loss Widens to $37.2 Mln; Sales Fall "Ballard today also said Chairman Firoz Rasul, a former chief executive of the company, will retire from the board next month. The company didn't say who will replace him." Bloomberg
5/7/04 Ballard Announces First Quarter 2004 Results "revenue in the first quarter ending March 31, 2004 was $16.0 million, down from $33.1 million for the same period in 2003 . . . Net loss for the quarter was $37.2 million ($0.31 per share), compared to a loss of $22.6 million ($0.19 per share) for the same period in 2003."
5/6/04 S.C. Research Center to Become U.S. Lab AP
5/6/04 UM hydrogen-fuel researcher wins project grants Lab will receive $4.5 million to study new storage method Ann Arbor News
5/6/04 Hydrogen-car contest a race from the start Team had only a few hours to build model for Science Bowl Albany Times Union
5/6/04 Fill 'er Up Researchers Offer Shortcut for Hydrogen Cars: Gasoline ABCNEWS.com
5/6/04 GTI and Subcontractors Awarded $2.5 Million by DOE for Hydrogen Storage Research
5/6/04 Sandia Labs developing new fuel cell membrane New Mexico Business Weekly
5/6/04 Entegris to Participate in 11th Fuel Cell Symposium, May 18-19, in Tokyo, Japan
5/6/04 Dynetek Industries announces 2004 First Quarter conference call May 10, 2004 at 8:00 a.m. MST
5/6/04 Medis Technologies Contracts with Top Tier Electronic Manufacturer Service Firm for Power Pack Industrialization Program Flextronics International
5/6/04 Plug Power Announces Shareholder Meeting hursday, May 20, 2004, 10:00 am at the Albany Marriott
5/6/04 Hydrogenics Reports First Quarter 2004 Results "Net loss for the first quarter 2004 was $7.5 million, or $0.12 per share, compared with a net loss of $2.4 million, or $0.05 per share, for the first quarter 2003."
5/6/04 Ballard and Alpha Technologies to Develop Fuel Cell Backup Power Systems for Cable Companies
5/6/04 High prices hit China platinum jewellery sector-GFMS "Platinum prices rose some 34 percent in 2003 and then added another 16 percent to April 2004, when they scored a 24-year peak of $942 an ounce, before coming off slightly to trade around $800." Reuters
5/6/04 Can Gasoline Jump-Start Hydrogen? BusinessWeek
5/5/04 UVic students develop award-winning fuel station design The team's design for a hydrogen fueling station that could open by March 2006 won the top prize in the first annual University Student Hydrogen Design Contest. The Ring
5/5/04 City approves fuel cells "The August 2005 opening date for Lompoc's new pool complex got pushed back Tuesday night, as the City Council approved a plan that could power the facility with fuel cells" probably FCEL Lompoc Record
5/5/04 Science Matters: Potholes on the hydrogen highway, by David Suzuki "To be pollution-free, hydrogen must be made using renewable energy, such as solar or wind. Otherwise, we will simply shift the pollution source from our vehicle tailpipes to smokestacks at hydrogen-production plants." Community Press Online Daily
5/5/04 Prepared Statement by Robert Hickman at a Senate Hearing on Space Shuttle and the Future of Space Launch Vehicles "Electro-mechanical actuators and self-contained hydraulics can eliminate most of the time-consuming activities required to process the Shuttle hydraulic system. Batteries can replace complex fuel cells and auxiliary power units." SpaceRef.com
5/5/04 Distributed Energy Systems Corp. Announces First Quarter Results "Net loss attributable to common stockholders' for the first quarter of 2004 is $6,753,000 or $0.19 per share compared to $4,650,000 or $0.14 per share for the comparable 2003 period. . ."
5/5/04 Medis to present at the Smith Barney Citigroup Small/Mid Cap conference on Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time In Las Vegas live presentation will be webcast, unclear whether playback will be available
5/5/04 MTI amends terms of private stock placement Albany Business Review
5/5/04 MTI MicroFuel receives $3 million DOE contract Albany Business Review
5/5/04 Governor Schwarzenegger Announces the California Dihydrogen Monoxide Network Satire Watley Review
5/5/04 System uses wastewater to create electricity "A microbial fuel cell takes household wastewater destined for the municipal sewage plant, turns it into energy and cleans the water in the process" Waste News
5/5/04 New PEM Brings Goal of High Temp Fuel Cell Closer "to help bring the goal of a micro fuel cell closer to realization using diverse fuels like glucose, methanol, and hydrogen" Sandia National Laboratories
5/5/04 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory Selects Uni-Solar Ovonic to Supply Solar Cells for Satellite First Deployment of Thin-Film Solar Cells to Provide 3 kW of Power to Satellite
5/5/04 Opinion: Wasting energy to save energy? "hydrogen fuel cell technology seems more likely to suggest that pollution and wasting energy are perfectly OK as long as it takes place somewhere else." Sarasota Herald-Tribune
5/5/04 Business Buys Into Fuel Cells Sierra Nevada/FCEL Wired
5/5/04 MTI Micro Receives Multi-Million Dollar Award From U.S. Department of Energy
5/4/04 Richland national lab chosen for hydrogen research "Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive as much as $15 million by the U.S. Department of Energy to research hydrogen storage." AP
5/3/04 Age of hydrogen power dawning Honda, others cooperate to road-test fuel-cell vehicle on rainy island off Kyushu "The small island just south of Kyushu is a little over 100km in circumference, but has mountains 2,000 meters tall. Annual rainfall on the island averages 8,000mm, and thanks to the abundant water resources, all households are powered by hydroelectricity." Nikkei
5/4/04 Fuel-Cell Car Demonstration Gives Orangeburg, South Carolina Students Glimpse of Future Hydrogen Economy DOE
5/4/04 ArvinMeritor and Gillig to Collaborate on Emissions Reducing Technologies "ArvinMeritor Plasma Fuel Reformer: This advanced breakthrough technology that uses on-demand hydrogen gas to help reduce NOx to levels compatible with the U.S. 2010 requirements, when applied to 2004 model diesel engines. The new technology, in the final development phase, does not require a hydrogen tank on-board nor changes to the infrastructure, representing a significantly lower alternative to compressed natural gas."
5/4/04 New power plan on the way "The Binns government's latest plan for alternative energy has stalled. P.E.I.'s "hydrogen village" can't get the proper approval from Industry Canada." CBC Prince Edward Island
5/4/04 Vauxhall/Opel fuel cell marathon under way Auto Industry
5/4/04 USDA Announces $22.8 Mil. for Renewable Energy Initiatives AgWeb.com
5/4/04 FORTUNE Announces Annual List of Cool Companies . . . "PolyFuel" FORTUNE
5/4/04 What will power aquatic center? "Fuel cells are being pitched as a way to save $340,000 in heating costs for the three-pool complex over 20 years. . . The expected cost of a pair of fuel cells for the pool is $2.6 million, but city officials anticipate getting a $500,000 grant from Southern California Gas Company to pick up some of the costs." Probably FCEL Lompoc Record
5/4/04 Beware of streakers; they may disappoint "[Ballard] will receive substantial benefit from the U.S. Department of Energy's initiative to grant $350 million (U.S.) to further develop hydrogen-fuelled vehicles." Toronto Star
5/4/04 Students Put Model Cars to the Test "There will be two classes for the competition -- a hydrogen fuel cell car and a solar car. Vehicles will race only within their own class." Argonne National Laboratory
5/4/04 MTI Amends Agreement for Private Placement of Common Stock
4/27/04 STM Power, Inc. Closes $29.6 Million in Funding from Leading Venture Investors external combustion Stirling engines
5/4/04 AEC Appoints Senior Executive from Electric Utility Industry as Chairman of Advisory Committee Therrell "Sonny" Murphy, Founder and Chairman of the Sterling Companies, to Assist Company in Deployment of Hydrogen Technology
5/4/04 California heatwave triggers power emergency PEi
5/4/04 Hydrogen Hopes Mother Jones
5/4/04 U.S. Department of Energy Launches Phase I of $2.6 Million Program Funding With Quantum to Develop Next Generation Hydrogen Storage Technology
5/4/04 ReliOn [formerly Avista Labs] Successfully Completes NEBS Level 3 Compliance Testing
5/4/04 Multiple Benefits Enable Hybrid Vehicles to Race Ahead of Battery and Fuel Cell Versions The Auto Channel
5/3/04 USC gets $11 million in research grants "$2.5 million for development of sensors and storage for hydrogen fuel cells by John Van Zee and James Ritter." AP
5/3/04 Solid fuel cell technology takes first at UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition UC Berkeley
5/3/04 Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (Australia) Plans June IPO Prospectus (1.6 MB)
5/3/04 Proton Energy Systems Receives Phase II Award of Solar/PEM Fuel Cell Power System Project at China Lake
5/3/04 General Meeting of the California Hydrogen Business Council, May 21, 2004, Boeing Facility, Long Beach
5/3/04 Hydrogen highway? Move aside, Ah-nold Michigan hoping to leave California in the fuel-cell dust Ann Arbor News
5/3/04 Catalysts Industry Booms as Environmental Regulations and Advanced Technologies Drive Demand Frost & Sullivan
5/3/04 CSA International and FuelCell Energy Announce First Ever Certification of Fuel Cell Power Plants to New U.S. Standard
5/3/04 Medis Technologies Schedules First Quarter Financial Results And Conference Call Monday, May 10, 2004
5/3/04 Dana Corporation Fuel-Cell-Powered Scooter A HIT at Hannover Industrial Fair
5/3/04 Zafira Fuel Cell Marathon CARkeys, UK
5/2/04 Hydrogen car is a mighty smooth ride Long Beach Press-Telegram
5/2/04 Hydrogen fuel prepares to play a bigger role "Enthusiastic backers grapple with creating systems to make it work in the real world." Report on NHA conference The Morning Call
5/2/04 Book Review: Two books explore the coming crisis of a world that's running out of oil The Seattle Times
5/2/04 Roadmap for hydrogen cars Times of India
5/2/04 Harry Braun for President web campaign kicks off Author of "The Phoenix Project" The Inquirer
5/2/04 Switch to hydrogen presents challenges Coal-mining states could reap benefits Louisville Courier Journal
5/2/04 PNNL on fast track for hydrogen fuel reformer Microchannel technology furnishes solutions PNNL
4/29/04 Editorial: Hydrogen power's shortcomings and potential "likely that hydrogen would be generated by breaking down natural gas, perhaps coal later. The disadvantage there is that such refining would still leave the country dependent on finite supplies of fossil fuels. Even if those refineries are meticulously clean, they still would emit large amounts of carbon dioxide." Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
5/1/04 High Schools Win Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge USDOE
5/1/04 FORD, BP PARTNER ON HYDROGEN CAR PROJECT "in several US cities including Sacramento . . . proposal calls for Ford to provide up to 30 hydrogen-powered Ford Focus Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCV). Assembly of the vehicles will begin in the fourth quarter of this year " The CalTrade Report
5/1/04 Stark State gets grant for programs "$780,000 three-year grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will be used to develop fuel cell curricula for area high schools and several two-year engineering programs at Stark State." Akron Beacon Journal
5/1/04 US to aid in fuel research in Chennai "Hyundai will get support from the second largest energy company in the USA, Chevron Texaco and UTC Fuel cells in the development of hydrogen fuel cell for its vehicles, said a company statement issued late on Thursday." Havhind Times, India

April 2004

4/30/04 BMW commits 7-Series car to hydrogen-powered research waitnews.com
4/30/04 'Dr. Hydrogen' backs out of deal "Roger Billings confirmed Friday that he was abandoning his plans to convert the 467-acre plant into a cutting-edge manufacturing facility for hydrogen fuel cells." Lawrence Journal World
4/30/04 UND research center helping with hydrogen fuel cells Grand Forks Herlald
4/30/04 News Advisory: Top Energy Department Official to Introduce Key Concepts of 'Hydrogen Economy' to Orangeburg Students USDOE
4/29/04 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to co-lead Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage PNNL
4/29/04 UND: Nothing runs like a CWV Johne Deere fuel cell-powered commercial work vehicle Grand Forks Herlald
4/30/04 Setra Systems, Inc. Offers New, Low Price Model 209 Industrial Pressure Transducer
For Use In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Development
4/29/04 U.S. Secretary of Energy Abraham Announces Winners of First-Ever Hydrogen Fueling Station Design Competition at the NHA Annual Conference National Hydrogen Association
4/30/04 Proton Energy Systems joins the $350M hydrogen economy project Boston Mass High Tech
4/30/04 Forecourt gas leak fears "BP CONNECT has again insisted the country's first hydrogen recycling plant will be perfectly safe, even though a hydrogen gas leak from a customer's car caused an emergency evacuation." Romford Recorder
4/30/04 The beat of a different Hummer Schwarzenegger's 'Green Hummer' plan sparks cultish following grist magazine
4/30/04 DuPont to add 40 jobs at Fayetteville plant "DuPont's Fayetteville Works makes . . . Nafion, a plastic membrane used to separate fuel cell compartments" Fayetteville Online
4/30/04 Editorial: A hydrogen tomorrow? Sacramento Bee
4/30/04 SunLine OKs short-range transit plan "two more hydrogen buses by 2005" The Desert Sun
4/29/04 UC Davis Awarded Department of Energy Hydrogen Grants "One project includes a state-of-the-art hydrogen fueling station to be constructed on campus by ChevronTexaco." UC Davis
4/29/04 Ballard Power Systems Announces First Quarter 2004 Conference Call Friday, May 7, 2004 at 7:00 a.m. PDT
4/29/04 Millennium Cell Welcomes Edward Gerety as Government Affairs Director
4/29/04 MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY INC Files SEC form 10-K/A, Annual Report
4/29/04 Hydrogenics Announces Reporting Date for First Quarter 2004 Financial Results Thursday, May 6, 2004
4/27/04 Secretary of Energy Abraham Announces NREL, Los Alamos and Sandia Hydrogen Storage 'Centers of Excellence' U.S. Department of Energy
4/27/04 Progress Energy Florida and DEP Selected for Hydrogen Project Partnership With Ford & BP Part of U.S. Dept. of Energy Hydrogen Project Progress Energy, Inc.
4/29/04 Proton Energy Systems Selected for Hydrogen Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project
4/29/04 DTE Energy Purchases Stuart Energy Hydrogen Station for Power Park Project
4/29/04 EBARA BALLARD Introduces Jointly Developed Kerosene Fueled 1 kW Stationary Fuel Cell Generator ET World's First Kerosene Fuel Cell 1 kW System Begins Verification Testing at Nippon Petroleum Refining Company's Yokohama Refinery
4/29/04 Millennium Cell Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for 8:30 am ET today
4/29/04 Hydrogen project goes to Lab "Los Alamos National Laboratory will collaborate with scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to create a new national Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage." Los Alamos Monitor
4/29/04 Plug Power takes aim at production costs Company works to get fuel-cell products down to mass-market prices Albany Times Union
4/29/04 Hydrogen fuel plan for Ohio stations hisses to a stop "AltFuel Solutions, did not receive any more state money after the initial [$45,000] grant because its subsequent proposals were poorly written" Cleveland Plain Dealer
4/29/04 Just say no, to hydrogen "If we're serious about stopping global warming, hybrid cars make a lot more sense than a hydrogen future" Salon
4/28/04 REV: Hydrogen Fantasy AlterNet.org
4/29/04 MTI Micro Executives to Speak at Fuel Cell And Industry Conferences
4/29/04 Delphi in truck fuel cell development Auto Industry
4/29/04 US boost for hydrogen and fuel cell applications Auto Industry
4/29/04 Hyundai and Chevron in hydrogen showcase Auto Industry
4/29/04 Automakers, Energy Companies and Governments Join Hydrogen Infrastructure Project Canadian Auto Press
4/29/04 Quick hydrogen reproduction "breakthrough means a car can have the hydrogen it needs within 12 seconds of start-up" Mid Columbia Tri City Herald
4/29/04 Hoku Scientific puts Asia marketer on its board Pacific Business News
4/29/04 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge Saturday, May 1 at National Science Bowl DOE
4/28/04 CaFCP 1999-2003 Progress Report California Fuel Cell Partnership
4/28/04 A pioneer cruises the streets UPS vehicle in Ann Arbor is 1st commercial fuel-cell vehicle in U.S. Ann Arbor News
4/28/04 LANL wins $40 million hydrogen research grant New Mexico Business Weekly
4/28/03 Feds help Big Three explore hydrogen AP
4/28/04 DTE Energy Announces Hydrogen Project Partnership
4/28/04 Ballard Fuel Cells to Power Fifty Percent of Announced Demonstration Fleets under U.S. Hydrogen Economy Initiative Ballard
4/28/04 Island uses wind, hydrogen to go green MSNBC
4/28/04 Millennium Cell Reports Q1 2004 Results "net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2004 of $3.4 million, or 10 cents per share"
4/28/04 Millennium Cell Selected for Department of Energy Funding
4/28/04 Stuart Energy Receives Order for Hydrogen Fuel Station in California
4/28/04 FuelCell Energy and Alliance Power to Provide Four 250-Kilowatt Power Plants to Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Second Brewery Application Will Be FuelCell Energy's First Food Processing Application in the United States
4/28/04 Plug Power lose $12M in third quarter Albany Business Review
4/28/04 Plug Power Reports Progress Against Key Milestones and Financial Results For 1st Quarter
4/28/04 Plug Power Earnings Call scheduled for 10:00 am ET today
4/28/04 First fuel cell submarine for export launched at HDW Epicos S.A.
4/28/04 IFC/GEF Fuel Cell Financing Initiative
4/28/04 Hyundai chosen for fuel-cell car project Asia Times Online
4/28/04 USA: Dozens of fuel cell test cars heading for the road within a year just-auto.com
4/28/04 AC Transit expands hydrogen fuel trial ChevronTexaco says it will build station near Coliseum Alameda Times-Star
4/28/04 Big fuel cell research project Environment-Centre The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has awarded £3.2 million in funding for the development of fuel cell technology to Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells Ltd.
4/28/04 Hydrogen power gets a $575 million boost "Private investment will put another $225 million into research over the next five years, bringing the total amount announced by Abraham to $575 million. " Knight Ridder
4/28/04 Grants to aid fuel cell studies $350 million in help from government announced in Detroit; private sector chips in $225 million Detroit Free Press
4/28/04 Marathon will test limits of fuel cells Detroit Free Press
4/28/04 Norway Testing New Clean Energy System "Oslo-based Norsk Hydro ASA . . . built two 600-kilowatt wind turbines to use with a hydrogen generator and a fuel cell in providing all the electricity for 10 homes" AP
4/28/04 Moving Towards Hydrogen CARkeys
4/27/08 Sandia Selected By DOE As Center Of Excellence for Metal Hydride-Based Hydrogen Storage Azom.com
4/27/04 California to get $50 million for hydrogen fuel cell research "The grants will go to three University of California campuses - Berkeley, Davis and Santa Barbara - as well as Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore and PolyFuel, Inc." San Jose Mercury News
4/27/04 Photo: Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham talks during a news conference at the National Renewable Energy Lab AP
4/27/04 Ford, BP to test 10 fuel-cell hybrids here Sacramento Business Journal
4/27/04 Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham Announces $350 Million in Hydrogen Research Projects DOE
4/27/04 U.S. Department of Energy Awards California Hydrogen-Based Transportation Infrastructure Project to Comprehensive Team Air Products
4/27/04 Abraham announces $350 million in research grants for hydrogen fuel technology AP
4/27/04 Ford, BP to test hydrogen vehicles UPI
4/27/04 Ford & BP to Build Hydrogen Fleets & Fueling Stations in California, Florida, & Michigan Ford Motor Company; BP plc
4/27/04 BMW to Participate in Research Project With Hydrogen-Powered 7 Series Cars US Department of Energy approves Hydrogen fuel demonstration project BMW of North America, LLC
4/27/04 United Technologies' Fuel Cell Company Chosen for U.S. Hydrogen Research Initiative "among 100 partner companies teamed with 30 lead organizations that will receive a total of $350 million to develop hydrogen and fuel cell technology needed to usher in the hydrogen economy"
4/27/04 ChevronTexaco, Hyundai Motor Company and UTC Fuel Cells Selected to Participate in U.S. Department of Energy Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project
4/27/04 Hydrogen Energy Station of the Future to Become a Reality with Innovative Public/Private Partnership ChevronTexaco
4/27/04 ChevronTexaco, AC Transit to build hydrogen fuel station San Francisco Business
4/27/04 U.S. Department of Energy Selects Delphi to Help Address Heavy-Duty Truck Idling Issue
4/27/04 DaimlerChrysler, EPA and UPS Collaboration is First Real-World Application of Fuel Cell Delivery Vehicle in North America F-Cell vehicle used for daily UPS express package delivery DaimlerChrysler; Environmental Protection Agency; UPS
4/27/04 DaimlerChrysler, BP to Partner with U.S. Department of Energy to Bring Hydrogen-Powered Cars to US Highways Project to Provide Real-World Experience for Emerging Fuel Cell Technology DaimlerChrysler; BP plc
4/27/04 Pacific Northwest National Lab on Fast Track for Hydrogen Fuel Reformer AScribe Newswire
4/27/04 Millennium Cell and PSA Peugeot Citroën Announce Partnership With Gaz de France
4/27/04 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 4/15/04 NASDAQ
4/27/04 Glance at GOP draft of energy bill "Construction of a $1 billion reactor in Idaho to produce hydrogen and tax breaks to help development of six, next-generation commercial power reactors." AP
4/27/04 Ford to test fuel-cell vehicles around Orlando BP and Progress Energy will team up to build a hydrogen-refueling station in Central Florida. Sun-Sentinel
4/27/04 Grants help fuel hydrogen-powered cars Automakers, Delphi, WSU awarded money from Energy Dept Detroit News
4/27/04 Medis Technologies Announces Upcoming Presentations at Several Conferences and Demonstrations of Power Pack Products
4/27/04 Pursuing vision with a tighter focus [PLUG], which reports earnings Wednesday, concentrates on market that's available now Albany Times Union
4/27/04 MTI Micro Receives Contract for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Systems From the Army Research Laboratory
4/27/04 Fuel cell research receives a boost with DTI grant "The Department for Trade and Industry has unveiled detail of a £3.2 million funding initiative designed to boost fuel cell technology. Johnson Matthey will be the beneficiary of the grant" Platinum Today
4/26/04 Energy Secretary Abraham Visits Detroit to Announce $350 Million for Major Hydrogen Research Projects "will announce recipients of over $350 million in hydrogen research projects to support President Bush's hydrogen economy initiative. Participants at the Wayne State University Tech Center event will include Daimler-Chrysler, Ford and General Motors." DOE
4/26/04 Remarks by the President at American Association of Community Colleges Annual Convention, Minneapolis Convention Center "We are making progress on hydrogen fuel cells, and that's positive. Private companies, including auto makers -- see, auto makers are beginning to see what the future is going to be like. They're beginning to see the need for diversification away from the current energy policy. They've already spent a billion dollars of their own money to develop hydrogen fuel powered cars and the infrastructure necessary to deliver hydrogen fuel. . . " whitehouse.gov
4/26/04 Bush Pushes Internet Use, Electronic Health Records "Bush also said automakers are making progress on development of cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The Department of Energy has chosen 28 private-sector partners to help develop hydrogen as an alternative fuel source, a program that would cost $350 million and must be approved by Congress. That amount is included in a $1.2 billion budget proposal to help make hydrogen fuel cells more affordable. "We need a different energy strategy,'' Bush said. ``You can't be an innovative society if you're stuck on foreign sources of oil.''" Bloomberg
4/26/04 BP and Ford Brings Hydrogen Future to Detroit "On Tuesday 27th of April, Ford Motor Company and BP plc are announcing a major initiative aimed at moving the United States closer to a hydrogen economy. Hydrogen-powered vehicles, and the fueling stations to support them will be operated in the Detroit area. The automotive company and the energy provider will provide details of the plan, and show the prototype vehicle and fueling station.
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4/26/04 CRIEPI Develops All-Ceramic Solid Oxide Fuel Cell "an all-ceramic cell that can operate at a temperature of 1000 C and generate 1 watt per square centimeter of electrolyte, which is five times as much as a conventional cell of its type can manage. Moreover, the new fuel cell can operate for 2,000 continuous hours, a 50-fold increase, because cracking due to the different thermal expansion coefficients of metals and ceramics is not a factor." Nikkei
4/26/04 Small Companies Notebook Heads up for you on a couple of interesting flotations. ITM Power . . . Independent
4/26/04 Hy-Drive announces initial sales of Hydrogen Generating Systems to North American school bus dealers Leeds Transit Sales
4/26/04 MTI to Discuss 2004 First Quarter Results and Activites at a Conference Call on May 12, 2004
4/26/04 Bush to Push High-Speed Internet Access Agenda "After a week focused on environmental policy, Bush will use a speech in Minneapolis to promote his high-tech agenda . . . Bush will also tout new government partners for hydrogen research projects worth $350 million as part of a five-year, $1.2 billion research initiative aimed at reducing dependence on foreign oil and putting fuel cell cars on the road by 2020. He has sought a 43 percent increase in federal spending to develop fuel cell cars and related service stations." Reuters
4/23/04 "Opel Fuel Cell Marathon": Tough Endurance Run For Fuel Cell From Hammerfest to Lisbon: 10,000 km across Europe Starts May 3 GM/Opel
4/20/04 EXECUTIVE ORDER S-7-04 by the Governor of the State of California governor.ca.gov
4/24/04 Venture capitalists like it clean "Still, some venture capitalists remain wary about investing in environmentally friendly companies after getting burned in the 1980s, when solar and wind energy startups raked in venture dollars, and in the 1990s, when hydrogen fuel cells were hot." AP
4/24/04 Interest growing in blimps to help with homeland security, defense "Georgia Institute of Technology researchers will develop a propulsion system, possibly using solar panels and fuel cells, to power the propellers during missions of a year or more at 65,000 feet." AP
4/24/04 Transport future driven by hydrogen "The chinese Ministry of Science and Technology set aside more than 400 million yuan (US$48.2 million) for research on hydrogen cell-driven automobiles in the first five years of this century" ShanghaiDaily
4/24/04 Letter from Spencer Abraham: "hydrogen fuel technologies designed to replace gasoline with pollution-free hydrogen" NY Times
4/24/04 Pataki calls for new policies to end reliance on foreign oil "time for a national effort akin to the Manhattan Project or the space program to develop clean sources of energy, such as fuel cells" The Journal News
4/23/04 IFC Announces the release of a Request for Proposals under its Fuel Cells Financing Initiative for Distributed Generation Applications International Finance Corporation (IFC) - World Bank Group
4/24/04 Groups pan using reactors for clean hydrogen fuel "watchdog groups warn pollution-free hydrogen fuel should be made with power from renewables like wind or the sun, not in a nuclear reactor with a radioactive waste problem that remains unresolved . . . " AP
4/24/04 Ebara Ballard Delivers Advanced 1 kW Stationary Fuel Cell Generator for Field Trials, Announce Industry Leading 93% Efficiency Japan Corporate News Network
4/23/04 BOC and Hydrogen Safety, LLC to conduct hydrogen safety training program at NHA hydrogen conference
4/23/04 Schwarzenegger hits gas pedal on Hydrogen Highways plan Financial Times
4/21/04 Hydrogen research shows promise Univ. of Kentucky-led work aims to help turn coal into fuel of future The Courier-Journal
4/21/04 Advanced fuel cell being developed Japan Today
4/23/04 Protonex Awarded U.S. Air Force Contract for Portable Soldier Power Millennium Cell Major Subcontractor
4/23/04 EBARA BALLARD Delivers Advanced 1 kW Stationary Fuel Cell Generator for Field Trials Industry Leading 93% Efficient Advanced Pre-Commercial Fuel Cell Generator in Field Trials at 17 Sites Across
4/23/04 UNI-SOLAR® PV System Powers Habitat for Humanity Home in Sacramento
4/23/04 Hydrogen listed into energy development strategy "China has listed rational use of hydrogen into its energy development strategy and will hike up investment for research of automobiles powered by hydrogen cells. " People's Daily
4/23/04 One-of-a-kind truck on road "world's first hydrogen-diesel pickup truck" Ecce Energy Saskatchewan News Network
4/22/04 What to use when the oil runs out BBC
4/22/04 Grand Valley State University dedicates renewable energy center FCEL - Photos! WOODTV
4/22/04 Op-Ed: Losing Our Edge? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN ". . . what is the Bush strategy? Let's go to Mars. Hello? Right now we should have a Manhattan Project to develop a hydrogen-based energy economy  it's within reach and would serve our economy, our environment and our foreign policy by diminishing our dependence on foreign oil. Instead, the Bush team says let's go to Mars. Where is Congress? Out to lunch . . ." NY Times
4/22/04 MORNING UPDATE: Man Securities Issues "The steady progression into the 'Hydrogen Powered Era' continues with news that Proton Energy Systems, a division of [DESC], will develop groundbreaking fueling technology for California's so-called "Hydrogen Highway." Man Securities ["Man Financial Inc is one of the world's major futures and options brokers and has been recognized as a leading option order execution firm for individuals and institutions."]
4/21/04 AN "OFF THE WALL" IDEA: Military Looks to Northeastern Professor for a Future Powered by Fuel Cells "young firms, Protonics Corp and Integrated Fuel Cell Inc., are working with Mukerjee to create different kinds of fuel cells, including the much-vaunted hydrogen fueled car" News from Northeastern
4/22/04 Opinion: Research, infrastructure key to hydrogen future Pensacola News Journal
4/22/04 CSA America spearheads development of 15 new fuel cell standards Stationary Fuel Cells Standard is First for U.S. Market
4/22/04 New Jersey Natural Gas Partners with Ocean County College on Fuel Cell Project FCEL, PPL New Jersey Natural Gas
4/22/04 Fuel-Cell Car Demo Gives Bronx Students Glimpse of Future Hydrogen Economy; DOE Official Explains New Technologies DOE
4/22/04 Distributed Energy Systems Schedules Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter Results Thursday, May 6th, 2004 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
4/22/04 PPL Completes Fuel Cell Installation at Ocean County College PPL Corporation
4/22/04 FuelCell Energy and PPL Complete Fuel Cell Installation at Ocean County College FuelCell Energy, Inc.; PPL Corporation
4/21/04 Military Looks to Indian American for Fuel Cell Future INDOlink
4/22/04 Ottawa firm releases first shipment of cellulose ethanol fuel from waste CP
4/22/04 Fuel Cells Weigh Anchor "On April 8, Mississauga, Ontario-based Hydrogenics, which designs and builds fuel-cell systems, announced an agreement to supply a 10-kilowatt power module to HaveBlue . . . " Wired
4/22/04 First Albany Sets Record, Distribution Dates for Special Dividend of PLUG - "payable on May 18, 2004 to shareholders of record as of May 4, 2004"
4/22/04 Plug Power Presents at International Trade and Financial Events
4/21/04 Governor's plan to retrofit Hummer pushed 'down on priority list' "We would never do a Hummer on any energy source that would not perform like a Hummer is supposed to perform" AP
4/21/04 Governor touts promise of hydrogen-powered cars Alameda Times-Star
4/20/04 PHOTO: Governator fueling H2 FCV AP
4/19/04 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN, April 2004 FCDIC
4/21/04 Saskatchewan Premier Unveills World's First Prototype Hydrogen/Diesel Pickup Truck Saskatchewan Research Council
4/21/04 Top Energy Department Official to Introduce Bronx Students to Key Concepts of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology DOE
4/21/04 Millennium Cell Schedules Release Of First Quarter Financials And Conference Call To Review Results Thursday, April 29, 2004
4/21/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Working with Texaco Ovonic Hydrogen Systems to deliver Hydrogen Storage Vessels
4/21/04 Quantum Participates in Governor Schwarzenegger's Hydrogen Highway Executive Order Event
4/21/04 Uni-Solar Ovonic and Solar Integrated Technologies Expand Strategic Alliance
4/21/04 Hydro Environmental Resources, Inc. Receives Contract and Sale for Electrical Chemical Hydrogen Fuel Reactor at Terra Nova Nurseries
4/20/04 Schwarzenegger Proposes 'Hydrogen Highways' Plan Governor: This Starts A New Era For Clean California Transportation KCRA-TV
4/18/04 Tax credit suspension stalling wind energy "Congress has effectively pulled the plug on the wind energy industry by failing to extend a crucial tax credit, leaving $2 billion worth of projects on hold across the country." AP
4/20/04 Schwarzenegger Seeks 200 Hydrogen Fuel Stations by Decade's End Bloomberg
4/20/04 LADWP Honored by EPA for Fuel Cell Program 2004 Environmental Achievement Award Recognizes Significant Contributions Toward Enhancing and Protecting the Environment
4/20/04 Stocks Sink, Greenspan Fans Rate Fears Reuters
4/20/04 Schwarzenegger Seeks to Boost Hydrogen-Fueled Cars Reuters
4/20/04 Hy-Drive Technologies Ltd. announces the appointment of David Butler as Chairman of the Board "Hy-Drive is an energy technology firm that has developed a patented Hydrogen Generating System ("HGS"). The HGS generates, on-demand, and injects small amounts of hydrogen gas into the combustion chamber of a regular internal combustion engine . . ."
4/20/04 Stuart Energy Unveils Next Generation Hydrogen Station "simultaneously unveiled its small Stuart Energy Station (SES) product at Governor Schwarzenegger's Hydrogen Highway announcement in California as well as at the Hannover Fair in Germany . . . The SES product line is a modular system that consists of Hydrogen Generation, Compression, Storage, Power and Fuel Dispenser modules."
4/20/04 Proton Energy Systems Offers Fueling Infrastructure Technology for California's Hydrogen Highway Company's Proven Industrial Hydrogen Generation Systems Represent Bridge to Future Transportation Applications
4/20/04 ECD Ovonics Strengthens its Board with Election of Additional Independent Directors Board membership increases to 10, 7 of whom are independent directors
4/20/04ECD Ovonics' Hydrogen Storage Technology Provides a Bridge to Future Fuel Cell Vehicles
4/20/04 US Department of Transportation Approves Transport of Hydrogen in Metal Hydride Storage Systems Approval Represents Significant Step in the Advancement of the Hydrogen Economy Texaco Ovonic Hydrogen Systems LLC
4/20/04 FuelCell To Sell Thermoelec Generator Line For C$22.75M Dow Jones
4/20/04 FuelCell Energy Announces Definitive Agreement for the Sale of Its Thermoelectric Generator Product Line
4/20/04 Plug Power to Announce First Quarter Results Wednesday, April 28, 2004
4/20/04 Plug Power Earnings Call scheduled for Wed, Apr 28
4/20/04 Ener1 CEO Interviewed on CEOCast Highlights Strategy to Penetrate Hybrid and Electric Car Market and New Nanotechnology Subsidiary Ener1, Inc.
4/20/04 Ballard Signs Distribution Agreement with Heliocentris Energy Systems Educational Fuel Cell Package Distribution Deal Worth US$1.25M "Heliocentris, located in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany and Vancouver, Canada produces educational equipment and training material on fuel cells."
4/20/04 Powered by the sun and hydrogen Solar-Hydrogen Eco-house The Star, Malaysia
4/19/04 Schwarzenegger to visit campus Tuesday Governor to fuel hydrogen vehicle, event is invitation only The California Aggie
4/19/04 Secretary Abraham Announces Agreement with Brazil on Hydrogen Energy Research; Supports President Bush's Hydrogen Initiative, International Partnersh
May 2004 Do Fuel Cells Make Environmental Sense? Questions about a Hydrogen Economy Scientific American
4/19/04 Hydrogen output for fuel cells saves on space and cost "Mitsubishi Corp. plans to commercialize by the end of 2005 a proprietary electrolysis hydrogen production system that is more compact and lower-priced than conventional systems. The new system can be built 50-90% smaller and 20-30% less expensive than existing systems based on electrolyzers and compressors, or city-gas-based hydrogen production systems." Nikkei
4/19/04 Comment: Fuel cells go beyond cars Pierre Rivard, CEO of Hydrogenics Financial Post
4/19/04 IdaTech Attends the 2004 Hannover Fair "unveiled its latest portfolio of products and services, including its new back-up power module, fueled with stored hydrogen and aimed at replacing traditional long duration battery back-up systems"
4/19/04 Fuel Cell Power System Improves TV Station Operations Jadoo Power Systems
4/19/04 Stuart Energy Announces Global Integrated Branding Strategy
4/19/04 Hydrogen fuel faces hurdles Environmentally friendly power source called panacea; cost still prohibitive to widespread use Long Beach Press Telegram
4/19/04 Concerned About Costs of Gasoline and Utilities? Actor Dennis Weaver Has Your Solutions
4/19/04 MTI to Present at Smith Barney Citigroup Small-Mid Cap Conference May 5
4/19/04 Hydrogenics Builds on Leadership in Fuel Cell Test Equipment Sector Greenlight Subsidiary Expands Product Line, Wins Contract to Supply Five G50 Test Stations to Automotive Client
4/18/04 Fuel-Cell Stocks Cooking As Oil Prices Rise BLDP, MCEL, FCEL, UQM New York Post
4/18/04 Plug Power looks to the future as it regroups AP
4/18/04 Alliance rolls out fuel-cell vehicles California Fuel Cell Partnership Sacramento Bee
4/18/04 Opinion: Hydrogen without the hype by Joseph J. Romm Sacramento Bee
4/18/04 Heavy Fords won't go hybrid High efficiency compromises performance The Courier-Journal [good discussion of hybrid design issues]
4/18/04 Maruti displays Suzuki vehicles "Motor Corporation has recently developed fuel cell technology for small cars in Japan." News Today
4/18/04 Fuel Cell Dealership "The system being trialled, with heating technology company Valliant as a partner, produces 4.6kW of electrical output and 7kW of heating per hour" CARkeys
4/16/04 Fuel-Cell Hype vs. Economic Reality NPR
4/17/04 Driving the future: GM's hydrogen-powered Hy-wire Boston Globe
4/17/04 Column: Green energy's potential is slowly being realized Toronto Star
4/16/04 Talk Of Senate Vote Next Wk Boosts Alternative Fuel Stks "[FCEL] . . . led the rally" Dow Jones
4/16/04 PEMEAS Fuel Cell Technologies, provider of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) for high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, marketed under the brand name Celtec, has received $21.7 million in financing . . . vcbuzz.com
4/15/04 Energy Bill Illusions "Today's political energy fads -- be they "clean coal" technology, hydrogen powered fuel cells, or whatever -- are no different than yesterday's. . . ." CATO Institute
4/12/04 Commemorate Earth Week By Attending Public Open House at California Fuel Cell Partnership's Headquarters
4/16/04 Fuel Cell Technologies - Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders 10:00 a.m. Monday, May 10, 2004
4/16/04 Rowland Office Linked to Costly Fuel Cell Deal at Youth Center "bidders were informed by the state in March 2000 that their submissions had to include a proposal incorporating fuel cells manufactured by a subsidiary of United Technologies" NY Times
4/16/04 Diving into uncharted waters "The world's first fuel cell-powered submarine is currently undergoing deep-water trials and will enter service with the German navy in August."  e4engineering.com
4/16/04 Overview of NHA Activities in the Development of Consensus Standards for Hydrogen Energy H2 Safety Report - National Hydrogen Association
4/16/04 Future is now: Muskegon's cutting edge energy producer is on line FCEL fuel cells at Grand Valley state U. Muskegon Chronicle
4/16/04 ITM Power IPO Within 2 Months , To Raise GBP15M - Sources "If ITM succeeds in floating, it will be the first U.K. fuel cell company to go public - but it could be closely followed by Intelligent Energy" Dow Jones
4/16/04 The Fuel of the Future: Hydrogen Vehicles Ride and Drive at Hydrogen Expo in Hollywood Free admission for the public - Schwarzenegger invited to speak at conference - exhibition sold out Freesen & Partner GmbH
4/15/04 HydrogenHighway.Com(SM) to Fuel the Public Vision of the Future
4/15/04 MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS INC Files SEC form 10KSB, Annual Report sec.gov
4/15/04 Korea and China open Joint Hydrogen Fuel Research Center Asia Pulse via FCT
4/14/04 Lights Out! The End of the Oil Age "trying to imagine life after fossil fuels isn't easy" book reviews AlterNet
4/15/04 Cellex lands federal fuel-cell funding $2 million "for a project to develop hydrogen fuel cells to power forklift trucks" Business Edge
4/15/04 Rowland Probe Eyes Fuel Cell Project "A $19 million project billed as the largest fuel-cell energy center in America has come under scrutiny by federal authorities investigating corruption in Gov. John G. Rowland's administration." AP [FCEL was the fuel cell vendor, but is in no way implicated in this investigation]
4/15/04 Hydrogenics Wins Contract With SunLine Services Group For Auxiliary Power System Will Provide Power Modules for Highway Transportation Truck Under U.S. Army Program
4/15/04 Hydrogen-powered cars show great market potential in China: experts Xinhua News Agency
4/15/04 Department of Energy Continues Hydrogen Education Series in Austin DOE
4/15/04 AXANE, Tomorrow's Energy Today AXANE, an Air liquide company specialized in hydrogen fuel cell systems, announces its new product line developed from its proprietary EVOPACTM technology at the Hannover Fair, Germany from April 19  24, 2004
4/15/04 Energy Secretary Looks Forward to Brazil Meetings Aimed at Expanding Energy Cooperation "broad, bilateral energy partnership focusing on hydrogen energy, energy sector investment, carbon sequestration, electricity modernization, and offshore drilling project safety" DOE
4/15/04 AEC Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire Majority Interest In Subsidiary of Leading Renewable Energy Firm Sterling Technologies Offers Immediate Distribution for AEC's Hydrogen Production Unit to the Electric Utility Industry and Its Customers
4/15/04 GVSU tests fuel cell tech FCEL Grand Valley Lanthorn
4/15/04 Fuel-cell maker bids for Farmland 'Dr. Hydrogen' [Roger Billings] wants to begin manufacturing in idled Lawrence plant Lawrence Journal-World
4/14/04 GM "Road to Hydrogen" Tech Tour Spotlights Hybrids, Fuel Cells MIT and Harvard Students Join Discussion on the Future of Transportation gmability.com
4/15/04 The hydrogen revolution Quieter, cleaner and greener. The petrol-driven car as we know it, is on borrowed time.The Age, Australia
4/13/04 Renewable energy promotes US job growth better than investment in fossil fuels Study released 4/13 at New Apollo Forum in Seattle AAAS
4/13/04 RBC Capital Markets raises target price on FCEL from $17 to $20 time span 12 months Wall Street Journal
4/13/04 U.S. risks lagging behind in fuel cell race "It's a little too early to tell on the U.S.," said Roger Saillant, chief executive officer of fuel cell developer Plug Power, based in Latham, outside Albany. "There is a risk we're becoming a laggard." AP
4/13/04 Fuel cell firms' shares gain as oil prices rise Bloomberg
4/14/04 Ballard Introduces Ecostar Power Converter to Photovoltaic Market "The Only 75kW Grid-Tie Utility Interactive Power Inverter Available Today"
4/14/04 Plug Power initiated with "equal weight" by Stephens Inc New Ratings
4/14/04 Indian Oil Corporation to roll out buses run on hydrogen-CNG mix Rediff, India
4/14/04 MIT pupils juice up fuel-cell ads for GM Boston Herald
4/2004 Recent News from the Fuel Cells Bulletin "lead story covers Mitsubishi Electric's progress in the development of a cogen PEM system. Other articles include BC Partner's investment in Baxi, the Vaillant/Plug Power European field trial, David Fuel Cells new Sterion membrane and RWE's commitment to install various IdaTech fuel cells across Germany"
4/13/04 MGE UPS SYSTEMS Introduces Industry's First Fuel Cell Powered Online UPS for Mission-Critical Applications Requiring Long Duration Backup Power New Pulsar EX RT is MGE's Second Generation UPS System to Incorporate Ballard Power Systems' Nexa® RM Series Fuel Cell Modules
4/13/04 City of San Francisco Takes Delivery of Two Honda FCX Fuel Cell Vehicles World's Most Advanced Fuel Cell Vehicle Hits the Streets of San Francisco
4/13/04 Longer-term view still favors upside Technical analysis: BLDP, FCEL CBSMW
4/13/04 FuelCell Energy Receives New Order for 4 Megawatts of Its Direct FuelCell® (DFC®) Power Plants from Marubeni Corporation
4/13/04 Oil price rise, Iraq conflict heat up Ballard Buying sparks fuel-cell stocks Globe and Mail
4/13/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Delivers Hydrogen and Natural Gas Fuel Storage Systems to Toyota
4/13/04 Ener1 Forms Nanotechnology Subsidiary
4/13/04 MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS INC Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2003 sec.gov
4/13/04 Mitsubishi to sell affordable hydrogen system for fuel cell cars "new system is 50% to 90% smaller than existing systems based on electrolyzers and compressors" Japan Today
4/13/04 Going to the limits "FDT Associates already provides design, construction, inspection and maintenance services to more than 14,000 mobile telecom sites for both Orange and 3UK . . . Now it has agreed a four-way alliance with US fuel cell specialist Plugpower, the BOC Group and Derbyshire-based Harrington Generators to provide fuel cell and gas generator technology to Orange." Manchester Evening News
4/13/04 Dennis Weaver's International Hydrogen Drive 2004 to Tour Three Countries to Promote Energy Independence 4/12/04 Several H2FC stocks up sharply Monday e.g. MCEL up 22.8%
4/12/04 SATC up 17.5% Monday on heavy volume
4/12/04 Fuel for thought: Need to know extended discussion of Japanese, Australian DMFC developers APC Mag, Australia
4/12/04 Is 'nanotech' label overused? "On Thursday, Asensio, an investment firm, faxed a letter to Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, charging that misuse of the nano label has become a favorite tactic for fraudulent stock promotion." NY Times via CNET
4/12/04 [London] Mayor publishes plan for a quieter capital "A vision for a more placid London with sound proof buildings, quieter roads surfaces free from potholes and ramps, no planes in the night sky and peaceful fuel cell vehicles rather than the chugging engines of diesel driven ones" Edie
4/8/04 BMW Plans to Offer Hydrogen-Powered Car Within 4 Years "a car that runs on both gasoline and hydrogen . . . Panke said BMW plans to use hydrogen fuel with internal combustion engines, rather than fuel cells . . . 'The experience of driving will not be possible with fuel cell cars'" Dow Jones Newswires
4/12/04 Fiber Spun from Nanotube Smoke "Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have developed a relatively simple way to manufacture continuous fibers of carbon nanotubes." MIT Technology Review
4/12/04 'Hydrogen highway' proposed for Illinois "Skinner proposes a 'corridor of hydrogen energy demonstration projects situated around I-90.' Depending on location, the price tag is 'between $600,000 and $2 million per station'" Chicago Sun-Times
4/11/04 Genesee river current has a new spark "The city has applied for a New York State Energy Research and Development Authority grant to study the feasibility of using the river and the 96-foot-high waterfalls downtown as a hydrogen source to power fuel cells." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
4/12/04 Two local companies win Third Frontier grants "NexTech Materials Ltd., a Lewis Center-based company that is developing components for fuel cells, will receive a pair of $175,000 grants to bring its products to market." Columbus Business First
4/12/04 Fuel Cell Vehicles Hit the Streets of San Francisco American Honda Motor Co.
4/12/04 New program 'fuels' job opportunities "This fall, Lamar Institute of Technology (LIT) will become one of only a handful of technical colleges in the state of Texas, and the only college in Southeast Texas, to offer training in fuel cell technology." The Orange Leader
4/9/04 Private investment increasingly important to energy industry "$263 million, or 7.7 percent of all of 2003's venture investing, fell under the Industrial/Energy category." New Mexico Business Weekly
4/11/04 Samsung develops direct methanol fuel cell IDG News Service
4/2004 Renewables Still Need R&D "Molecular and metabolic engineering is improving yields of hydrogen from water through a natural process involving green algae and sunlight. Photoelectrochemical systems, integrating photovoltaic semiconductors, produce hydrogen directly from water using sunlight . . ." Power Engineering
4/2004 Renewable Energy Enters Commercial Era Power Engineering
4/11/04 Point/Counterpoint: Alternative energy in eye of the beholder "It is time to look at the oil industry as a public utility like electricity and natural gas. It doesn't make sense that power plants are considered public utilities when they could not operate, with the exception of hydroelectric, without oil, gas or coal. Bush's hydrogen energy economy is right up there with his talk about going to Mars." The Salt Lake Tribune
4/11/04 The 'future is now' for alternatively powered vehicles on base "The Air Force's first battery dominant, hydrogen fuel cell bus was placed into service two months ago in Hawaii." Macon Telegraph
4/7/04 Letter from the Chairman Medis Technologies Ltd.
4/10/04 Nippon Steel, Others To Build Hydrogen Gas Station At Aichi Expo Nikkei
4/10/04 Ebara, Others To Set Up Waste Recycling System Joint Venture "In an urban area, a recycling system will be designed to take hydrogen out of garbage to make fuel cells." Nikkei
4/10/04 Aquatic Center - energy use a key factor "energy consultants hired by the city recommended the fuel cell technology after studying alternative energy sources, including solar power, turbines and photovoltaics" Lompoc Record
4/9/04 Bill Ford: Steeper gas taxes would fuel hybrid demand Detroit News
4/5/04 Plug Power Proxy Statement 2004 Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 10:00 a.m., local time, at the Albany Marriott, Albany, New York
4/8/04 Multiple benefits enable hybrid vehicles to race ahead of battery and fuel cell versions AAAS
4/8/04 SOMETHING VENTURED : Clean Energy Powers VC Interest Wall Street Journal
4/8/04 Honda to Test Fuel-Cell Car in Unique Hydrogen Project Kyodo News
4/8/04 ‘Hydrogen highway’ plan earns praise Whistler Question
4/8/04 Oman's Oil Yield Long in Decline, Shell Data Show "While Oman represents a small part of Shell's reserves, oil industry experts say the company's experience there highlights broader questions about the future role of Western oil companies and their technology in the Persian Gulf, which has most of the world's oil reserves. . . . the failure of Shell's horizontal drilling technology in Oman suggested that even advanced extraction techniques 'won't bring back the good old days.'" NY Times
4/8/04 China, as Summer Nears, Braces for Power Shortages "the country faced a shortfall of 20 million kilowatts this year - twice last year's shortfall, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Tuesday" NY Times
4/8/04 In Ford's Tomorrow, Fuel-Saving Hybrids and a Luxury Lincoln "Mr. Ford also reiterated Detroit's past support for substantially higher gas taxes - a notion recently pilloried on the campaign trail - as well as incentives for consumers buying vehicles like hybrids" NY Times
3/1 /04 Fuel Cells "Motorola will not manufacture fuel cells; instead, it will seek partners that can develop its technologies into fuel-cell products." Detailed discussion of the issues faced by DMFCs as consumer and military products Reed Electonics Group
4/8/04 Hydrogenics Sells Fuel Cell Power Module to HaveBlue for Marine Application HyPM will Provide Auxiliary Propulsion and Onboard Power as Part of Sailing Yacht's Unique Regenerative System
4/8/04 Assistant Energy Secretary Dedicates North Point High School Fuel Cell Installation and Hydrogen Curriculum in Florida DOE
4/8/04 FPL Helps Unveil Fuel Cell at North Port High School FPL and Others Study Fuel Cells as Next Generation Energy Source - PLUG fuel cell
4/8/04 Enova Systems Reports Year End Results
4/8/04 AEC Opens Oak Ridge Division for Product Development and Demonstration Facility to Be Site of First Product Shipments in September 2004 and Product Demonstrations for Electric Utilities [Careful!]
4/8/04 Honda to test fuel-cell vehicle on public roads in US "FCX testing program will begin this month in California, followed by testing in New York in the fall" Japan Today
4/7/04 Biofuels and their use in fuel cells Sylvia Baron, Imperial College via FCT
4/7/04 Monthly Status Report: USCG Air Station Cape Cod Fuel Cell Project Report Period: 01– 31 March 2004 FCEL USCG
4/6/04 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Promotes B.C. Technology "Mercedes-Benz Citaro hydrogen fuel cell bus, powered with a Ballard â fuel cell engine, will showcase B.C.’s leading technology to the world beginning with HYFORUM, an international hydrogen energy forum in Beijing, China in May 2004" B.C. Ministry of Energy and Mines
4/5/04 Independent Power Technologies Ltd (IPT) And E-Vision BVBA Filed A Joint Patent On Manufacturing Process For Alkaline Fuel Cell (AFC) Electrodes (click "news" in top banner on IPT site)
4/7/04 Assistant Energy Secretary to Dedicate Hydrogen Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Curriculum at North Point, Fla. High School DOE
4/7/04 Honda Announces Further Advancements in Industry Leading Fuel Cell Program Breakthrough Honda FC Stack to Be Tested in California and New York; City of San Francisco Takes Delivery of Two Honda FCX Fuel Cell Vehicles
4/7/04 havePOWER to Install ReliOn Fuel Cells for State of Ohio Ohio Communications System Third Installation in Partnership
4/7/04 Hyundai Unveils Hydrogen-Powered Tucson SUV at New York International Auto Show
4/6/04 Samsung presents new 10 hour Fuel Cell Notebook Photo, technical details, nothing on costs Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) via Fuel Cell Today
4/6/04 Fuel Cell Company P21 Gets $7.3 Million First Round vcbuzz.com
4/3/04 John Deere Green Part one of interview with Bruce Wood, the head of John Deere's E-Drive development group [Hydrogenics is Deere's FC partner] EV World (paid registration required for access to full interview)
4/2/04 The new wild west of voltage rustling "accessible power outlets are like clean public toilets in New York City: you take advantage of them when you can. Topping up your laptop batteries when you have the opportunity is just something you do." samizdata.net
4/6/04 Fuel Cell Vehicles and Fuel Cell Power: The Future is Now—if Not Yesterday UtiliPoint IssueAlert
4/6/04 Cheney Tax Plan From '86 Would Have Raised Gas Prices ""Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States," Mr. Cheney, who is now vice president, said shortly after introducing the legislation." NY Times
4/6/04 POWERBALL INTERNATIONAL INC filed a form 10KSB sec.gov
4/6/04 Northern Power Systems to Negotiate on $8.3 Million NREL Contract to Develop an Advanced, Direct-Drive Wind Turbine for Low-Wind Speed Sites Funding Is Catalyst for Developing New Power Generating Turbines for Widespread Use DESC
4/6/04 Celanese AG Forms Venture for Commercialization of Fuel Cell Technology "formed the venture PEMEAS Fuel Cell Technologies with a consortium of investors led by Conduit Ventures . . . has raised total financing of approximately EUR 18 million . . . PEMEAS is the world's sole supplier of membrane electrode assemblies for high-temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells"
4/6/04 Golfers to Drive the Hydrogen Highway; Developer WCI Communities Embarks on One-Year Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research Project at Venetian Golf & River Club "hydrogen fuel cell manufactured by [PLUG] installed adjacent to the Venetian's golf cart barn in late March." WCI Communities
4/6/04 Samsung Readies Portable Fuel Cell "Samsung says its fuel cell uses a new membrane that halts more than 90 percent of methanol crossover and also uses a catalyst made of mesoporous carbon, cutting by half the amount of catalyst required." PC World
4/6/04 Shell Hydrogen and Howard University Partner to Advance Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology "Shell will sponsor the Shell Hydrogen Scholars Program at Howard University to provide financial aid to undergraduate students in the engineering program."
4/5/04 Los Angeles Airport to Have Nation's First Commercial Compressed Hydrogen Fueling Demonstration Station "lease calls for Praxair. . . to design, engineer, equip, construct and operate a 600-square-foot facility that will be a prototype of a commercial automobile fueling station. The $1,580,048 state-of-the-art fueling station will be the first facility in the United States to showcase the generation, compression, storage and dispensing of compressed-hydrogen fuel in a limited-production capacity, retail-friendly environment." Los Angeles World Airports
4/5/04 Canada Taps Xantrex for Distributed Gen. "Xantrex Technology received a CDN$7.2 million (US$5.4 million) multi-year commitment from Industry Canada's Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC) program to contribute part of the cost of development of advanced power electronics technology for sustainable energy systems." SolarAcess.com
4/2/04 siGEN announces signing of non-exclusive UK wide distribution agreement with Plug Power for GenCore®
4/5/04 Titania nanotube hydrogen sensors clean themselves Nanotechwire.com
4/5/04 TV Actor, Racing Star See Possibilities in Hydrogen "Weaver and Shelby want you to continue driving SUVs, buses, pickup trucks and fast cars. They simply want you to use different fuels, preferably hydrogen." Washington Post
4/5/04 Honda to test fuel-cell car in unique hydrogen project "vehicle equipped with a next-generation fuel-cell power generator as part of a project to create an energy system free of fossil fuels" Japan Today
4/5/04 Hydrogen just won't fly A little research that should make Ballard investors think twice "initiated coverage of Ballard a "sector perform" rating and no price target because the industry is likely to never emerge and therefore does not lend itself to financial analysis or valuation" Financial Post, Canada
4/5/04 Bellona leads in the EU hydrogen debate "If we take the greenhouse effect seriously, there are no other solutions than to produce larger amounts of hydrogen from oil, gas and coal with carbon dioxide handling" Bellona
4/5/04 Toyota's expo preparations move into top gear "Hydrogen-powered fuel-cell buses developed by Toyota Motor also will be used to ferry visitors" Daily Yomiuri
4/5/04 Japan testing non-polluting output of hydrogen for fuel cells hydro-electricity TerraDaily
4/5/04 Local fuel cell project in the testing phase DOE grant helping Honeywell position itself for hydrogen market The Journal-Standard, NW Illinois
4/5/04 Op-Ed: Hydrogen-powered vehicles aren't a clean answer, professors say "While hydrogen combustion is not polluting, hydrogen production is." Sarasota Herald-Tribune
4/5/04 Quantum Receives $1.0 Million Military Contract to Develop Transportable Hydrogen Refueler to Support Fuel Cell Vehicles
4/5/04 Trial To Use Hydroelectricity To Make Hydrogen For Fuel Cells "An industrial-academic alliance will begin an experiment this month in which hydrogen used to power fuel-cell vehicles will be produced through hydroelectricity, offering the world's first fuel-cell energy system that is completely independent of global-warming fossil fuels. Honda Motor Co., Taiheiyo Cement Corp., Showa Denko KK, Kagoshima University and United Nations University are participating in the project. . ." Nikkei
4/4/04 A Toxic Cover-up? " . . . what he calls a government cover-up of an investigation into a disaster 25 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill. It happened in October of 2000, when 300 million gallons of coal slurry - thick pudding-like waste from mining operations - flooded land, polluted rivers and destroyed property in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia." CBS 60 Minutes
4/1/04 SEC Sues William W. Freise, Former President and Director of Powerball International Inc., for Altering Company Bank Statements to Conceal Fraud Former Powerball auditors denied privilege of appearing or practicing before SEC for two years for improper professional conduct.
4/2/04 FuelCell Energy, Inc. [FCEL] Opens The NASDAQ Stock Market NASDAQ
4/2/04 For Americans, Gas Guzzlers Are Again Kings of the Road "Maintaining a trend that dates back more than a decade, American buyers continued to shift from passenger cars to the largest and least fuel-efficient new vehicles that auto manufacturers offer, even as gasoline prices soar" NY Times
4/2/04 When a Phone Isn't Simply a Phone "With the mounting demands on cellphones these days, power is increasingly critical — especially if no electrical outlet is available for a quick charge." Cellboost, power hungry accessories NY Times
4/2/04 Dynetek shares race higher on government funding Reuters
3-4/2004 Fuel Cells: State of the Industry IAEI
4/2/04 Hydrogenics Receives $1.56 Million (CND) Contribution from Sustainable Development Technology Canada at Globe 2004 Hydrogenics to Develop Hydrogen Fuel Cell Class I Forklifts And Refueling Station
4/2/04 Cellex Power Products, Inc. Confirms $2 Million (CDN) Contribution from Sustainable Development Technology Canada at GLOBE 2004. Cellex to develop hydrogen fuel cell solutions for rider pallet fork-lifts
4/2/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Receives Government Funding for Hydrogen High Pressure Valve Development
4/1/04 Prime Minister commits $6 million worth of new projects for hydrogen highway Canoe.ca
4/1/04 Government of Canada Gears Up to Put Fuel-Cell Technologies on the Road "funding for the world's first Hydrogen Highway™ to be built between Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia" Government of Canada
4/1/04 Ballard Power Systems Supports Canada's Hydrogen Highway Initiative in British Columbia
4/1/04 FuelCell Energy, Inc. [FCEL] Chairman, President and CEO to Open The NASDAQ Stock Market Friday, April 2, 2004 at 9:30 a.m. EST
4/1/04 SatCon Electronics Announces over $3.0 Million in New Contracts "the division's backlog is approximately $5 million, the highest it has been at quarter-end in the two years"
4/1/04 Fuel Cell Market Survey: Military Applications Fuel Cell Today (Johnson Matthey)