March 2005

3/31/05 Palcan Closes Private Placement of $400,000 & is Arranging a $2-Million Financing to Fund Product Manufacturing & Sales
3/31/05 U.S. goal: Fuel cell cars for masses in 2020 Energy department, industry formalize partnership MSNBC
3/31/05 Kyoto Protocol spurs race to develop fuel cells Japan Today
3/31/05 New fuel cell drives around hydrogen economy roadblocks "new solid oxide fuel cell, or SOFC, that converts a liquid transportation fuel -- iso-octane, a high-purity compound similar to gasoline -- into hydrogen which is then used by the fuel cell . . . projected to have a 50 percent fuel efficiency when used in a full-sized fuel cell generator" Northwestern University
3/30/05 Franklin Fuel Cells demonstrate SOFC that can run on gasoline FCT
3/31/05 'Power Engineering' Magazine Reports On-Site Hydrogen Units Cool Generators Better, Producing Large Cost Savings Highlights HOGEN® Proton Exchange Membrane System Usage By Major Utilities Proton Energy Systems, Inc. (DESC)
3/29/05 Arotech Gets 3-Year, $24M Zinc-Air Battery Supply Contract From Army's CECOM AP
3/29/05 Lithium ion battery recharges in one minute "features the short rechargeable time of capacitors and the energy capacity of conventional lithium-ion batteries . . . energy density is 150 to 250 Wh (Watt-hour)/liter, equal to the lower range of energy densities existing lithium ion batteries have. . . It could be used for mobile phones in the future, but we put the priority on applications such as automobiles that require quick recharging time and large cycle time" EE Times
3/31/05 Hanover Trade Fair: Hydrogen Technology made by Fraunhofer - Weather-Resistant Miniature Fuel Cells and Durable SOFC Sta uniprotokolle
3/31/05 Hydrogen Has Its Day The Motley Fool
3/31/05 Hitachi Maxell Develops Innovative Catalyst for Enhancing Fuel Cell Performance "new method synthesizes the catalyst consisting of platinum-ruthenium and phosphor, and reduces the particles to 2mm in diameter" Japan Corporate News
3/31/05 Hydrogen fuel promoter wants bigger test projects More public exposure will increase familiarity with the new energy source, he says. "Jeremy Bentham, chief executive officer of Shell Hydrogen, asked the National Hydrogen Association's 16th annual convention to consider what Shell calls 'lighthouse projects.' . . ." Allentown Morning Call
3/31/05 Power boost in fuel cells "On Friday in Honeoye Falls, GM is scheduled to announce a collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
3/31/05 Report on Japan: The 'ultimate challenge,' the ultimate reward The initial headaches are painful, but worth the payoff for doing business in this lucrative market. Hydrogenics Globe and Mail
3/31/05 Fuel-cell Cars: Canada's First Hit the Streets of British Columbia "Ford Motor Company/Ford of Canada will present five Ford Focus fuel-cell cars to the Vancouver Fuel Cell Vehicle Program" NRCan
3/30/05 QuestAir announces appointment of non-executive Director
3/30/05 National Hydrogen Learning Demonstration Event Talking Points for Secretary Bodman Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC DoE
3/30/05 Ballard expects to supply more than half the fuel cells in U.S. program CP
3/30/05 Secretary of Energy Announces Major Hydrogen Demonstration Programs as Industry Event Opens in Washington NHA
3/30/05 Photos: Fuel cells get a boost CNET
3/30/05 Automakers, U.S. to Develop Fuel Cell Cars "aiming for possible mass marketing of the vehicles within 15 years, Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said" AP
3/30/05 Hydrogen conference convenes in Washington UPI
3/30/05 Energy Dept. signs new fuel-cell deals MarketWatch
3/30/05 The Secret Behind Vestas Motley Fool
3/30/05 DaimlerChrysler Commits Over $70 Million to Fuel Cell Development in the U.S. The United States Department of Energy and DaimlerChrysler Work Together for Further Development of Fuel Cell Vehicles Chrysler Group
3/30/05 Russian hydrogen power development program may be approved this year Bellona
3/30/05 GM, DOE Sign $88-Million Agreement to Advance Fuel Cell Development "five-year, $88-million agreement to build a 40-vehicle fuel cell fleet and further develop the technology . . . GM will spend $44-million to deploy fuel cell vehicle demonstration fleets in Washington D.C., New York, California and Michigan. The DOE will contribute the other half, under an agreement that expires in September 2009. . ." GM
3/30/05 Modine and ChevronTexaco Team Up to Create New Approach for the Distributed Production of Hydrogen "steam methane reforming (SMR)" Modine Manufacturing Company
3/30/05 ChevronTexaco Is Creating New and Better Ways for the Distributed Production of Hydrogen Hydrogen Generation Process Presented at National Hydrogen Association Conference ChevronTexaco
3/30/05 Toshiba develops fast-charging battery techology "can be recharged about 60 times faster than conventional lithium ion batteries, and the technology could be commercialized for portable electronics products in about three years" IT World
3/30/05 Nuvera Announces Sale of New Fuel Cell System
3/30/05 MDTL, MCEL on "Regulation SHO Threshold Security List" nasdaqtrader.com [This means that short sellers are selling these stocks but have failed to deliver the shares they were supposed to have borrowed before selling, i.e. they are engaging in "naked" short selling, i.e. the short sellers are selling shares that don't exist - they are effectively counterfeiting shares. So far the SEC has done nothing to address this widespread "naked shorting" problem.]
3/30/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. Ships Three Systems in March
3/30/05 SatCon to Provide Grid-Tied Inverters for Energy Storage System
3/29/05 Modine driving the technology to power fuel-cell vehicles advanced steam methane reforming Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
3/29/05 Highlights of rising and falling U.S. stocks Millennium Cell (MCEL) shares rose more than 9 percent after the company said Monday it has delivered a 5kW hydrogen fuel cell for testing to the Department of Defense. The U.S. Air Force is evaluating interchangeable power sources for military equipment." IBD
3/29/05 Ballard says fuel cell technology more widely available by 2010 "Ballard's announcement, made to coincide with the National Hydrogen Association's annual conference in Washington, was aimed at skeptics who question whether the technology will be practical and economical in the future." AP via Detroit Free Press
3/29/05 LIPA Dedicates First Combined Fuel Cell & Solar Power System Installation on LI "15 kilowatt (kW) solar power system and 5 k fuel cell unit" Plug Power The Long Island Power Authority
3/29/05 Ballard Power Systems: Commercially Viable Fuel Cell Stack Technology Ready by 2010 "Commercially viable fuel cell stack technology for hydrogen-powered vehicles can be demonstrated by 2010, according to a Technology "Road Map" released today by Ballard"
3/29/05 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. [ENER] Chairman & CEO, and President & Founder to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 at 4:00 p.m. EST
3/29/05 Millennium Cell up; military to test system Reuters
3/29/05 Denmark wants Europe's first hydrogen train Cordis
3/29/05 BOC to Sponsor National Hydrogen Conference
3/29/05 Larson pushes fuel cell investment Middletown Press (CT)
3/29/05 Before the Bell-Arotech, Millennium Cell surge, HCA up Reuters
3/29/05 Arotech Receives New Contract to Supply up to $24 Million in Zinc-Air Batteries to the US Defense Department
3/28/05 Hydrogen or electricity? A nuclear fork in the road "For those who have been wondering why there is a focus on developing energy independence through hydrogen transportation when electricity is obviously already much more capable, efficient and cost effective, here is your answer. "The hydrogen economy" is, at its core, an attempt to integrate renewable energy s desperately needed load leveler into general commerce." IAGS
3/28/05 Nanotechnology could promote hydrogen economy "a finely textured surface of the metal iridium that can be used to extract hydrogen from ammonia, then captured and fed to a fuel cell" Rutgers University via EurekaAlert (AAAS)
3/28/05 Millennium Cell Delivers Stationary Hydrogen Energy System for Military and Industrial Applications "5 kW Hydrogen on Demand® system for testing at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center [under a] subcontract from CTC announced on October 8, 2004"
3/28/05 Hydrogen Expo USA 2005 Begins NHA
3/28/05 DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SYSTEMS CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Entry Material Agreement "On March 22, 2005 the Compensation Committee of the board of directors of Distributed Energy Systems Corp. adopted the 2005 performance incentive plan. Executives of Distributed Energy System Corp. and its subsidiaries are eligible to receive compensation through this plan. . . ."
3/28/05 Obstacles remain for micro fuel cells PolyFuel, MTI, Toshiba "The expectation is that by January 2007 worldwide regulation would be in place for fuel cell cartridges to be used everywhere and anywhere," says [PolyFuels's] Balcom. Toronto Star (free registration required)
3/28/05 Ballard Power Systems "underperform" "Frazer Mackenzie . . . 12-month target price is set to $4" New Ratings
3/28/05 Astris Energi Closes Convertible Debenture Financing "Total net proceeds were CDN$378,000"
3/28/05 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of March 15, 2005 NASDAQ
3/2005 On the Road to Fuel Cell Cars Scientific American (PDF on PLUG web site)
3/27/05 Top Israeli technology transfer chief wooed away by Harvard "Green Fuel Cells (GFC), a Partnership spin-off, is getting ready to demonstrate its first prototype, a fuel cell for mobile electronics devices . . . TAU Chemistry Professor Emanuel Peled, a world renowned authority in fuel cells and energy storage devices, who has developed technology that enables the creation of what is, to date, the smallest, longest operating fuel cell for mobile electronic devices. It will also be the cheapest. It operates on non-diluted fuel and uses a membrane, the heart of the fuel cell, priced 100 times lower than existing membranes. The company plans a second equity investment in the coming months." Israel21c
3/27/05 Hydrogen: feasible fuel or pipe dream? President supports development of nonpolluting car Knight Ridder
3/26/05 Selling fuel cell cars to Asia may be GM's salvation National Post
3/25/05 Nanotubes promise fuel from water "Sandia National Laboratories recently demonstrated that hollow organic nanotubes, married to an inorganic catalyst, can harness sunlight to turn water into pure hydrogen and oxygen." EE Times
3/25/05 Pepperidge Farm to generate on-site electricity FCEL Bloomfield Journal
3/25/05 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN, March 2005 FCDIC
3/25/05 Enel to Help Develop Hydrogen Power Station to Cut Pollution "Enel SpA, Italy's former power monopoly, will help build what it says is the world's-largest hydrogen-fueled power plant to produce electricity without emitting gases that contribute to global warming. . . will have a capacity of 20 megawatts and produce no carbon dioxide emissions" Bloomberg
3/22/05 National Fuel Cell Research Center at UCI sponsors exhibit in U.S. Pavilion at 2005 World's Fair in Japan Nearly 2 million visitors expected to view exhibit between March 25 and Sept. 25 UC Irvine
3/25/05 Hydrogen fuel cells 'great hope' Energy official touts power source Macon Telegraph
3/25/05 Op-Ed: What Happens Once the Oil Runs Out? "The controversy over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a side issue. The problem we need to face is the impending world oil shortage." NY Times
3/25/05 Op-Ed: Coal in a Nice Shade of Green "The combination of gasified coal plants and geologic storage can be our bridge to the clean energy - derived from renewable resources like solar and wind power and perhaps nuclear fusion - of the 22nd century and beyond." NY Times
3/25/05 Op-Ed: Me and My Hybrid "Drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is not only an attack on what little remains of this country's wild places; it makes no sense in terms of numbers. We do not know how much oil lies beneath the refuge - at best, it has been estimated, it will fuel our gas-hungry culture for only a few years - but we can easily calculate what a few simple conservation methods would achieve. . ." NY Times
3/25/05 A New Fuel Cell's Many Positives "A group from the University of Illinois has built the first membrane-free alkaline fuel cell. . ." BusinessWeek
3/25/05 Energy Secretary at Annual Hydrogen Conference Secretary Bodman to Kick-Start Hydrogen Learning Demonstration Projects NHA
3/24/05 The Naked Truth on Illegal Shorting "the commission brokers make on loaning out shares changes depending on how high the demand is for a certain stock. So when a stock goes into naked short territory, where there is potentially more demand than there are shares in existence, brokers stand to make a lot of money by executing short sales & even if they can't get their hands on the borrowed shares right away." Motley Fool
3/24/05 Fuel-cell Zafira goes the full Monte, hopefully GM NewCarNet
3/24/05 BLDP traded at a new 52 week low today 5.13 yahoo
3/24/05 Engineers win contest with laptop fuel cell "The winning design applies newly developed surface-functionalized mesoporous ceramic membrane technology to the concept of laptop batteries. The fuel cell can then be instantly recharged by a chemical cartridge in place of plugging it into an electrical source" The Daily Princetonian
3/24/05 Hydrogenics Signs Agreement with Hitachi Zosen to Collaborate on Fuel Cell Technology Companies will work together to develop and commercialize power systems for the Japanese market
3/24/05 Cosmo Oil To Begin Home Fuel Cell Ops "Cosmo Oil will offer a fuel cell jointly created with Toshiba Fuel Cell Power Systems Corp. It will have an output of about 700 watts, which is enough to cover roughly 60% of the electricity used in an average household with a family of four. The company will likely rent out the fuel cells for a period of three to five years for a fee of about 60,000 yen [US$565] per year." Nikkei
3/23/05 High cost of gasoline may make hydrogen-powered FreedomCAR more practical Knight-Ridder
3/23/05 Maxwell Technologies' Backup Power Modules Recognized By Design News Readers as 'Product of the Year' Award Winner
3/23/05 Parker Hannifin changing focus to innovation "The new focus on smaller endeavors involves setting up new business units in partnership with startup companies dabbling in areas such as fuel cells. . . Parker's fuel cell unit works closely with Protonex" AP
3/23/05 Medis Blames Short Sellers for Stock Drop AP
3/23/05 Florida Hydrogen Business Partnership Finalizes Hydrogen Energy Roadmap
3/23/05 Medis Technologies Releases Letter to Shareholders
3/23/05 ECD Ovonics Chairman & CEO and ECD Ovonics President, CTO & Co-Founder to Close The NASDAQ Stock Market on March 30 Event marks ECD Ovonics' 20-year anniversary on NASDAQ
3/23/05 EcoComposite Announces Successful Test of Breakthrough Fuel Cell Technology - UC Davis Endorses Technical and Economic Viability "cost-effective fuel cell plates can be produced in both large and small quantities"
3/23/05 Fueling Hope "Impracticalities aside, the [Honda] FCX was a hoot to drive." Forbes
3/23/05 Membraneless fuel cell is tiny, versatile Diagram PhysOrg.com
3/23/05 Astris Energi To Exhibit At Premier European Event
3/23/05 SatCon Power Systems Appoints E.L. McDaniel Vice-President of Sales and Marketing
3/23/05 Membraneless Fuel Cell is Tiny, Versatile "A fuel cell designed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign can operate without a solid membrane separating fuel and oxidant, and functions with alkaline chemistry in addition to the more common acidic chemistry." azonano.com
3/22/05 Cheaper Hydrogen Beckons But where will we get the energy to make it? "solid-oxide electrolysis cells" IEEE
3/22/05 First membrane-free alkaline fuel cell built "system exploits a phenomenon known as "laminar flow", where tiny streams of liquid become so viscous they do not mix when squeezed past one another" NewScientist.com
3/2005 Hydrogen Safety Report NHA
3/22/05 Parker Hannifin puts focus on tiny startups Protonex Cleveland Plain Dealer
3/22/05 Jump Start "renewed interest in funding clean energy" PLUG, BLDP Forbes
3/22/05 Florida Hydrogen Initiative Announces Key Energy Projects
3/22/05 Voller Energy Group plc: Interim Results for six months ended 31 December 2004
3/22/05 Fuel Cell Technologies [TSE:FCT] "strong buy" newratings.com
3/22/05 Clean Edge Report Forecasts Solar Photovoltaics, Wind Energy, and Fuel Cells to Exceed $100 Billion Market by 2014
3/21/05 Russia Attends Hydrogen Congress Novosti
3/21/05 Company wants to create fuel cells powered by Florida citrus peel Ener1 AP
3/21/05 Entegris to Acquire Mykrolis in $579.7 Million Stock Deal Dow Jones
3/21/05 MILLENNIUM CELL Proxy Statement "Annual Meeting will be held on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 9:30 a.m., local time, at New York Hilton" sec.gov
3/21/05 MILLENNIUM CELL INC Files SEC form 10-K, Annual Report sec.gov
3/21/05 EDTA Applauds Introduction of Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Act
3/21/05 Millennium Cell Receives Notification of Allowance for Two U.S. Patent Applications
3/21/05 ENER1 to Turn Florida's Tourism Waste and Citrus Peel Waste into Renewable Energy Company to Develop Power Source for Highway Rest Stop with Byproducts of Florida's Two Largest Industries
3/21/05 Startech Environmental Hydrogen Ideally Suited to New Internal Combustion Engine Initiative Senator Byron L. Dorgan and the National Hydrogen Association to Promote Hydrogen Fueled Internal Combustion Engines in the Energy and Water Bill Startech
3/21/05 UK smallcaps edge higher midday "ITM Power attracted buyers after announcing it has successfully launched its first working dual liquid fuelled fuel cell. . . rose 8-1/2 pence to 91" AFX
3/21/05 Lack of commitment now the key barrier to hydrogen economy, industry tells conference "as many as 6.1 million hydrogen powered cars could be on Europe's roads by 2020, being served by 2,800 filling stations, with total infrastructure costs of around 3.5 billion euro" Cordis
3/21/05 Launch of ITM s First Working Dual Liquid Fuelled Fuel Cell PHOTO!
3/18/05 Hydrogen and fuel cell future research strategy revealed "The European hydrogen and fuel cell technology platform is presenting its long-term Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) just weeks before the Commission's official proposal on the 7th Framework Programme." EurActiv.com
3/20/05 Switching Gears Executives at [MCEL] don't really talk anymore about filling up your car with their clean, clear fuel rather than gasoline. Now they want you to think smaller. . . Asbury Park Press
3/20/05 Cutting edge doesn't beat the ordinary over long haul "If you want to invest in the most promising stocks for the next 50 years, you don't need to read up on nanotechnology, fuel cells or genetic engineering. . ." Philadelphia Inquirer
3/18/05 Tiny porphyrin tubes developed by Sandia may lead to new nanodevices "nanotube devices could be suspended in a solution and used for photocatalytic solar hydrogen production." DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
3/18/05 The Robins Group retains its "Buy" rating in MDTL, risk rated "High", with a 12 month price target of $25 [H2FC is in possession of a copy of this report but does not have permission to distribute it.]
3/18/05 Intelligent Energy Demonstrates Utility of its CORE Technology, Unveils World's First Purpose-Built Fuel Cell Motorbike
3/18/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. Installs First Residential Fuel Cell System in Canada
3/18/05 Green campaigners call for sustainability criteria to be applied to hydrogen economy Cordis
3/18/05 Intelligent Energy seeks manufacturing partner for fuel cell motorcycle Auto Industry
3/18/05 US Fuel Cell Council Applauds Significant Bill Introductions
3/18/05 Medis Tech downgraded by Merriman Curhan Ford from "Buy" to "Neutral" Briefing.com via yahoo
3/18/05 H2FC Update: Medis
3/17/05 Xantrex announces management changes
3/17/05 [Ohio] University will get $1.3 million in federal money for auto fuel research The Athens News
3/17/05 Hydrogen fuel station in the works City converting five Priuses L.A. Daily News
3/17/05 [MDTL] fell more than 17 percent after the New York maker of fuel-cell technology products reported fourth-quarter loss of $6.3 million, or 24 cents per share, wider than its year-ago equivalent loss of $2.5 million or 10 cents a share. The latest quarter included a charge of $1.9 million related to stock options and warrants. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson First Call was for a loss of 15 cents a share in the December period. Investor's Business Daily
3/17/05 Fortune to spin off division "The Kensington mouse is about to find a new home." Bloomberg
3/16/05 DEP Marks Hydrogen Energy as Legislative Priority Florida Department of Environmental Protection
3/17/05 Mass market for hydrogen transport by 2020, industry figures predict Cordis
3/17/05 Europeans back hydrogen fuel cells Electronics Weekly
3/17/05 Medis Technologies Reports Year-End and Fourth Quarter Results Report on Power Pack Demonstration "For the year ended December 31, 2004, the net loss attributable to common shareholders was $17,728,000, or $.68 per share"
3/17/05 MTI Micro Lays Out Pathway To Commercialization of Military Products In 2006
3/16/05 Energy for the future - Hydrogen and Fuel Cell industry sets out its blueprint European Commission
3/16/05 Hydride Hurdles on the Hydrogen Highway E/The Environmental Magazine
3/16/05 IdaTech Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement With Rittal for Backup Fuel Cell Products
3/16/05 Revolutionary bike 'too quiet' Manufacturers are working on fitting an artificial engine sound BBC News
3/16/05 First Hydrogen Car for Sale in 2012 - DaimlerChry/05sler "But there are still technical obstacles to overcome such as extending fuel cells' reliability and durability; ensuring that they start at sub-freezing temperatures; reducing costs, and storing enough hydrogen in a small enough space to be workable. The car industry is also waiting for the roll-out of hydrogen filling stations." Reuters
3/16/05 Dynetek reports 2004 fourth quarter and year end results Record twelve months revenue of $26.6 million - up 28%
3/16/05 Environmentally safer catalyst proves more active in hydrogen production Ohio State University
3/16/05 MTI pins hopes on military market Company hopes deal with Army opens door for big potential sales Times Union
3/16/05 DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SYSTEMS CORP Files SEC form 10-K, Annual Report sec.gov
3/15/05 Ceria nanoparticles catalyze reactions for cleaner-fuel future DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory
3/15/05 QuestAir receives Engineering Services Contract from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
3/15/05 Intelligent Energy Holdings Names New Directors, Senior Management
3/15/05 PLUG POWER INC Files SEC form 10-K, Annual Report sec.gov
3/15/05 Fuel Cell Demos Work but it's a Long Road to Your Driveway PLUG-Honda Small Times
3/15/05 Largest Collection of H2 Vehicles Slated for Hydrogen Conference March 30 - April 1 National Hydrogen Association [H2FC will attend]
3/14/05 California Fuel Cell Partnership Welcomes ISE Corporation as New Member "ISE designs, develops and assembles fully integrated hybrid-electric drive systems and components for large buses, trucks and military vehicles."
3/15/05 Intelligent Energy launches the world's first purpose-built fuel-cell motorbike includes specs and performance data Fuel Cell Today
3/15/05 Findings of H2 Expo Sruvey on Low-temperature Fuel Cells Fuel Cell Today
3/15/05 Air Liquide to participate in the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform annual event in Brussels
3/15/05 Distributed Energy Systems' Operating Units to Engineer and Install Hydrogen Fueling Station in Vermont Efficient Hydrogen Production System Demonstrates Renewable Capability
3/15/05 Ceres Power: Interim Results
3/15/05 Hydrogen Bike Revs Up The Scotsman
3/15/05 Nuvera Provides Fuel Cell System to Deere & Company Fuel cell power module delivered to equipment manufacturer for testing and evaluation in off-road applications
3/15/05 Mechanical Technology beats expectations with 4Q profit BizJournals
3/15/05 New Fuel Cell Tech for Portable Power Putting a 'Socket in Your Pocket' ABC News
3/15/05 MTI Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2004 Results
3/15/05 CeBIT: Antig powers notebook with prototype direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) DigiTimes
3/14/05 Hydrogen Economy Inches Forward Utilipoint
3/14/05 Quantum Subsidiary Awarded Major Contract for Expanded OEM Parts Distribution "Tecstar Automotive Group was awarded a contract for expanded parts distribution that will potentially generate up to $60 million in revenues over the next twelve months."
3/14/05 New CalCEF $30 Million Fund Poised to Fuel California's Clean Energy Industry Diverse Board and Matching Funds from Leading Venture Capital Firms Provide Economic and Environmental Benefits for State California Clean Energy Fund
3/14/05 Hydrogen Fuel ScienCentralNews
3/14/05 One of McCook's own in forefront of fuel cell development Alliance Power McCook County Gazette
3/14/05 Wind Turbine to Stir Up Renewable Energy Research University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
3/14/05 Toshiba shows fuel cell prototype ARNnet (AU)
3/14/05 FUELCELL ENERGY INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
3/14/05 USFCC Launches Effort to Develop Standardized SOFC Testing Procedures and Data Reporting Guidelines Fuel Cell Community Invited to be Surveyed on Options
3/14/05 Dynetek Industries announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2004 Financial Results conference call Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 8:00 a.m. MST
3/14/05 Ener1 Raises $14.2 Million in Private Placement Funding for Commercialization of Technologies
3/12/05 Unveiled: the clean queen of the sea "It is the ship of the future - powered by the sun, wind and waves. . ." Telegraph
3/12/05 Hevesi links renewable energy, jobs "New York state could gain 43,000 jobs if it can boost the amount of energy it uses from renewable sources, Comptroller Alan Hevesi said in a new report." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
3/11/05 First filler for hydrogen raises future fuel mix issue Energy Business Review
3/11/05 Toshiba shows fuel cell prototype Technology won't become available for 3 years "The company previously said that it intended to have its direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) for notebook PCs ready for the market in 2004, but the schedule has slipped several times." IDG News
3/11/05 Make way for hydrogen Demonstrator hybrid bus gives 'Peg taste of future Winnipeg Sun
3/11/05 Roh Pledges Aid for Development of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars Yonhap News (Korea)
3/11/05 Mitsubishi LPG Develops Way To Prolong LPG Fuel Cell Life new desulfurizer Asia Pulse
3/11/05 Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide "strong buy," estimates reduced First Albany newratings.com
3/11/05 Coverage initiated on Energy Conversion by Jefferies & Co "Hold"
3/10/05 Q&A: GM's Burns plans fuel cell sales in 2010 "I'd be very, very disappointed if you couldn't buy a Chevrolet fuel-cell powered vehicle by 2015. Not necessarily from a Chevy dealer in America, though. It could happen somewhere else first. . ." Detroit Free Press
3/10/05 Activists and auto buffs hold vigil to save EV1s from GM crusher Washington Post
3/9/05 Driving without guilt gets one step nearer "Honda's chief engineer at its research and development department, says it's going to be at least 15 to 20 years before zero emission fuel cells become mainstream . . . We'll have been driven demented by the time fuel cells finally arrive on our forecourts. Besides, the weight of newsprint expended on the subject before the first regular car goes on the sale must affect the benefits to be accrued when it's finally introduced." Irish Times
3/10/05 Major Fuel Cell Bus R&D Funding Included in House Version of Tea Bill WestStart-CALSTART Hails Supporters of National Fuel Cell Bus Technology Initiative (NFCBTI) Which Jumpstarts Advanced Hydrogen Systems in Transit "House voted to provide $65 million in funding for the research and development of technologies that will make fuel cell buses commercially viable." WestStart-CALSTART
3/10/05 Distributed Energy Systems Corp. Announces Fourth Quarter, Year End Results "Reported record revenue for the fourth quarter of $11.4 million and for the year of $22.5 million. . . The Company will host a conference call tomorrow, Friday, March 11, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. ET"
3/10/05 Fuel cell holds notebook promise "Taiwanese company Antig Technology has developed a compact prototype fuel cell integrated into a notebook PC. . . Commercial versions of the prototypes for notebooks and mobile handheld devices are expected to be available by late 2005." CNET
3/10/05 Notebook fuel cell a reality this year? "Another fuel cell prototype has been launched but this time it comes with a firm commitment to launching a finished product this year" Antig ZDNet
3/10/05 SHEC Labs applies for new patent for Heat Valve
3/10/05 MILLENNIUM CELL INC Files SEC form 8-K, Entry Material Agreement, Sale of Equity " . . . Pine Ridge agreed to immediately exercise a warrant of the Company (the “Warrant ) held by Pine Ridge. The Warrant was issued to Pine Ridge by the Company on January 30, 2003, and was exercisable for 589,376 shares of common stock, par value $.001 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock ). In consideration for the immediate exercise of the Warrant, the Company agreed to reset the exercise price of the Warrant to $1.50 per share. . ." sec.gov
3/10/05 Tech Stocks in Motion MCEL TheStreet.com (MCEL volume over 9M shares today)
3/10/05 Toshiba Readies Diverse, Cutting-Edge Technologies for CeBIT 2005 "Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFC) for Notebook PCs"
3/9/05 Take a look at the gas station of the future Independent Online
3/9/05 Quantum Technologies Reports Fiscal 2005 Third Quarter Financial Results
3/10/05 Kyoto Protocol Spurs Race to Develop Fuel Cells Kyodo news via ENN
3/10/05 Fuel cell fuels promise Honda's FCX performs like a conventional car, but hydrogen storage, availability are hurdles Detroit Free Press
3/10/05 Distributed Energy Systems Announces Its Fourth Quarter & Full Year 2004 Financial Results Conference Call Webcast March 11, 2005 @ 11:00 AM Eastern
3/10/04 Medis Technologies Schedules Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results and Conference Call Thursday, March 17, 2005
3/10/05 FuelCell Energy to Provide Direct FuelCell Power Plant for Pepperidge Farm Bakery in Connecticut Equipment Sale Through PPL EnergyPlus Will Be Their Seventh DFC300A Customer
3/10/05 When the Outlet's Out, a Way to Recharge Ravenous Devices Medis New York Times ("Circuits" section)
3/9/05 Protonex and Millennium Cell Deliver 'Industry First' to U.S. Air Force Millennium Cell
3/9/05 Protonex and Millennium Cell Deliver 'Industry First' to U.S. Air Force Protonex
3/9/05 Forklifts now run on fuel cells and hydrogen PHOTOS! Machine Design
3/9/05 LG Chem Sets Up Fuel Cell R&D Center in Korea University Korea Times
3/9/05 GM touts fuel cell storage advance Research partners bridge key obstacle in efforts to store the fuel in a solid state."The automaker and HRL Laboratories said Tuesday a class of chemicals called metal hydrides is capable of holding plentiful supplies of hydrogen in a solid state. . . Now we have a route to attack the temperature problem, which has never been done before . . ." Detroit News
3/9/05 Group sees hurdles to hydrogen power Albany Times Union
3/9/05 Merc B-class takes huge step in fuel-cell quest "fuel cell, Mercedes says, is now twice as efficient as an internal combustion engine" Motoring & Independent Online
3/8/05 FuelCell's Energy Enigma "this Fool believes that the company needs to try to do more on the engineering front to improve both its systems and its operations." Motley Fool
3/8/05 UK DTI report on Hydrogen Energy not negative Fuel Cell Today
3/8/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for 10:00 am ET today
3/7/05 FuelCell Energy Reports First Quarter 2005 Results and Accomplishments "net loss to common shareholders for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 of $19.4 million"
3/7/05 QuestAir H-3200 hydrogen purifier installed at Chevron Hydrogen Energy Station
3/7/05 Hydrogen cars approaching General Motors reports a breakthrough in hydrogen storage technology, although other obstacles remain. Red Herring
3/7/05 General Motors gives progress report on hydrogen fuel technology AP
3/7/05 Quantum Schedules Fiscal 2005 Third Quarter Financial Results Conference Call Wednesday, March 9, 2005, at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
3/7/05 Guest opinion: A lesson in hydrogen Montana Standard
3/7/05 WallSt.net Airing Exclusive Audio Interviews With WYSK, MCEL, ISON and ALTI
3/7/05 QuestAir and FuelCell Energy to evaluate production of pure hydrogen from Direct FuelCell® power plants
3/4/05 Capex studies US$19bn, 16GW wind-to-hydrogen plans - Argentina BNamericas.com
3/4/05 MTI to Discuss 2004 Fourth Quarter Results and Activities During Conference Call on March 15, 2005
3/4/05 Nokia denies reports that it has dropped fuel-cell battery plans "we haven't had, nor currently have, any plans for commercialization" RCR Wireless News
2/25/05 German technology leader widens the gap SFC again shows innovative power - breakthrough in fuel cell cost reduction "A new membrane allows substitution of at least 50 percent of the expensive catalytic platinum."
3/4/05 Quantum Technologies Completes Acquisition of Starcraft Corporation
3/4/05 AEC Announces Completion of $1.5 Million Private Financing
3/4/05 Alcohol-powered computing unlikely before 2008 "another three years to wait before methanol pumps, the successor to current lithium polymer batteries, become commercially available, notebook giant Toshiba s head technology strategist said yesterday." ZDNet
3/2005 The Latest Fuel Cell News In Japan, February 2005 FCDIC
3/3/05 Fuel cell breakthrough Smart Fuel Cell claims it can significantly reduce the cost of fuel cells by using half the platinum. Red Herring
3/3/05 Clean Energy ETF debuts on Amex MarketWatch PBW Quote
3/3/05 Quantum Stockholders Vote in Favor of Merger
3/3/05 Nokia Drops Plans To Develop Fuel-Cell Battery Handsets "The world's largest handset maker, which only eight months ago signaled its commitment to fuel cell-powered phones, said the technology isn't yet mature enough for the company to develop handsets." Dow Jones
3/3/05 Low Battery Blues "A recent online survey commissioned by [Medis] finds that 67% of 1,018 respondents have experienced running out of power while using an electronic device." Wall Street Journal
3/2/05 American Stock Exchange to Trade Options on Seven PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio (PBW) The American Stock Exchange
3/3/05 Hydrogen Economy Policy to be Set in 2005 "South Korea will lay the foundations for a hydrogen-based economy that will revolutionize the country's energy use, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said Thursday." Yonhap News
2/28/05 NHA Annual Hydrogen Conference 2005 Conference Highlights National Hydrogen Association
2/28/05 Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Investor Begins 6th Year of Publication
2/28/05 NTT develops mobile-phone hydrogen fuel cell "The prototype works by combining hydrogen with oxygen, generating electricity and water. It is more powerful than the DMFCs (direct methanol fuel cells) currently being developed by many companies, said a spokesperson. . . “DMFCs can't do it. There isn't enough power" IDG News via PC Advisor
3/2/05 Nuvera Fuel Cells' company newsletter, Elettrizzare Volume 2, No. 1, 2005 (500k)
3/2/05 Fuel Cell Industry Applauds Transportation and Infrastructure Legislation Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Program Faces House Vote "legislation includes the Fuel Cell Bus Technology Demonstration Program, a $64.8 million, cost-shared, competitively awarded grant with a maximum of four projects to be selected from geographically diverse areas of the country" USFCC
3/2/05 Sporty Mercedes fuel cell car unveiled Range reaches 250 miles, and a third more power MSNBC
3/2/05 Fuel cell firm Hydrogenics' Q4 loss widens to US$10.3 million from US$7.3M CP
3/2/05 Hydrogen: The next fuel for laptops? "Millennium Cell's product is unusual in that it uses hydrogen and sodium borohydride. In its current state, the Millennium Cell battery looks a bit like a science project. . ." Mercury News
3/2/05 Firefighters Train For Hydrogen Fuel Fires Experts Expect Hydrogen Fuel To Become Popular Gas Replacement WESH NewsChannel2000.com (Florida)
3/1/05 Westport Awarded $567,000 by National Research Council of Canada
3/2/05 Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights the Following Stocks: Kinder Morgan Management, Medis Technologies, AT&T, and Bank of America
3/2/05 Photo of Millennium Cell Demonstration at Intel Developer Forum CNET
3/2/05 Notebooks squeeze juice out of fuel cells "Millennium Cell gets around the hydrogen production and storage problem with a plastic box . . . that sits alongside the notebook" CNET
3/2/05 Genesis Fueltech Completes 10,000 Hour Fuel Processor Test
3/1/05 Carmakers Look For Alternative Fuel Voice of America
3/2/05 Plug Power Receives U.S. GSA Listing Enables Federal Agencies to Purchase GenCore(R) Backup Fuel Cell Systems
3/2/05 Hydrogenics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2004 Results Rapid Integration of Stuart Energy On-Track "While 2004 proved to be a challenging year, we begin 2005 poised for significantly improved financial performance" "Hydrogenics' full year revenues for 2004 were $16.7 million, compared with $26.7 million for 2003. Net loss for 2004 was $33.5 million, or $0.53 per share, compared with a net loss of $22.1 million, or $0.42 per share, for 2003. . . The Company will hold a conference call with senior management to discuss the financial results in detail at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time / 7:30 a.m. Pacific Time on March 2, 2005."
3/1/05 Idemitsu Readies Push Into Market For Household Fuel Cells "starting in fiscal 2006. The company will start by marketing fuel cells that run off LPG (liquefied petroleum gas), but in fiscal 2008 it also intends to release fuel cells that run off kerosene. . . will feature an energy efficiency of better than 30% and rent for 60,000 yen to 100,000 yen [$955] a year" Nikkei
3/1/05 EU funds hydrogen research "'The vision is to develop novel, as yet unproven or even non-existing routes for H2 production from solar energy and water" Cordis
3/1/05 DC/AC efficiency hits 97% Electronics Weekly
3/1/05 The Hydrogen Economy - Energy and Economic Black Hole EnergyPulse
3/1/05 RTI Institute receives $1.6M federal grant "storage technology recycles a material called aminoborane" The Herald-Sun
3/1/05 Millennium Cell announces partnership with Dow Asbury Park Press
3/1/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. Announces the Engagement of Patent and Trademark Agents, Kirby Eades Gale Baker
3/1/05 Dow Recharges Millennium Cell "This [deal with Dow] doesn't look like a very attractive deal for Millennium's current shareholders, but on the other hand, it's probably better than watching their company go broke." Motley Fool
3/1/05 Progress Energy, Stuart Energy to Construct 'Green' Electrical System for Homosassa Springs State Wildlife Park Progress Energy, Inc.
3/1/05 DaimlerChrysler Unveils New Fuel Cell Vehicle in Geneva
3/1/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Invites You To Hear First Quarter Results on Its Web Broadcast Conference Call on Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at 10:00 a.m. EST
3/1/05 WilderHill Clean Energy Index ETF to Begin Trading on Amex March 3, 2005

February 2005

2/28/05 Florida's Fire Marshals To Receive Hydrogen Energy Training
2/28/05 Quantum Adjourns Special Stockholders' Meeting Until March 3, 2005 to Vote on Merger With Starcraft Starcraft Shareholders Approve Merger
2/28/05 Fuel Cell Technology Hires Christensen as Investor Relations Firm
2/28/05 Millennium Cell 4Q Loss Narrows AP
2/28/05 Tech Stocks in Motion MCEL TheStreet.com
2/28/05 Take Energy Tech Back From the Day Traders ACPW, BCON, CPST, ESLR, PLUG . . . Motley Fool
2/28/05 Fuel cells for mobiles and laptops a step closer MCEL Forbes
2/28/05 Millennium bcp launch a hostile takeover to buy Millennium Cell Inc Millennium bcp - Investors Relation Division [H2FC has NO independent verification that this is real. Might be, might not be.]
2/28/05 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 2/15/05 NASDAQ
2/28/05 Dow Chemical to buy up to 19.9% of Millennium Cell marketwatch
2/28/05 Rep. Cox Obtains Federal Support for Quantum's U.S. Army Hydrogen Infrastructure Program Congressman Cox (R-CA)
2/28/05 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Delivers Certified 700bar (10000psi) Hydrogen Storage System to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
2/28/05 Personal Power Outage Fuels Frustration in a Wireless World Market Research Study Medis
2/28/05 Millennium Cell Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for 11:00 am ET today
2/28/05 Millennium Cell Reports Fourth Quarter Results "net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2004 of $2.2 million"
2/28/05 MILLENNIUM CELL INC Files SEC form 8-K, Entry Material Agreement, Results of Operations, Financial Statements and Exhibits sec.gov
2/28/05 Millennium Cell and the Dow Chemical Company Announce Joint Development Program Collaboration to Accelerate Commercialization of Portable Fuel Cell Systems "keys to unlocking longer run times and greater functionality are breakthroughs in new materials, chemistry and engineering . . . three-year, milestone-driven program . . ."
2/28/05 Air Liquide 2nd-Half Net Rises 5%, Helped by Hydrogen "benefiting from demand for hydrogen, which refiners use to remove sulfur from fuels." Bloomberg
2/28/05 EV1, 9, dies " The cause of death, according to [GM], was a lack of interest from the car-buying public . . . But EV1 enthusiasts from coast to coast suspect the vehicle was the victim of foul play on the part of the Detroit auto giant." Boston Herald
2/28/05 H2-leak detector for gas stations "Hitachi Ltd. has worked with Okayama University to develop a highly efficient wireless network system to detect and respond to leaks of hydrogen gas." Nikkei
2/28/05 Micro fuel cells power mobile devices "Japan's fuel cell manufacturers and mobile phone companies will soon conduct large-scale tests to verify the performance of micro fuel cells that are being developed to power handheld electronic devices. The companies hope to commercialize a compact fuel cell by 2007 because the United Nations subcommittee of experts on the transport of dangerous goods recently voted effectively in favor of easing international regulations to allow passengers to carry methanol fuel cartridges onto civilian aircraft that year." Nikkei
2/27/05 Toshiba's fuel cell certified as world's smallest by Guinness Japan Today
2/26/05 President George W. Bush Tops National Hydrogen Association's 2005 List of Honorary Members
2/25/05 Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change NPR
2/25/05 Schools seek fuel-cell OK E. Rochester voters to decide on power generation project Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
2/26/05 Air Products builds fuel station to help San Jose buses run clean The California city will use hydrogen to power three vehicles over three years. Morning Call
2/26/05 Intel's `platform' will be center stage at conference "Millennium Cell . . . will demonstrate a laptop that runs on a battery powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The fuel cell . . . will fit in a normal-size battery pack and power an IBM ThinkPad." Mercury News
2/25/05 Pollution-free buses aren't blowing smoke SamTrans enters partnership to test hydrogen-fuel-cell technology San Mateo County Times
2/25/05 QuestAir announces Director dealings
2/24/05 Losing less leaves Plug feeling positive Company leader says deals made in 2004 will bear fruit in 2005 Times Union
2/25/05 Hydrogen car filling network in Europe is feasible, study finds Reuters
2/24/05 UND students switch alternative energies University's new hydrogen fuel-cell car gets final part needed for rollout "Hydrogenics Corp. and John Deere are donating a $150,000, 12-kilowatt fuel-cell stack to UND's Society for Energy Alternatives" Grand Forks Herald
2/25/05Millennium Cell To Host Fourth Quarter and Year-End Conference Call Monday, February 28, 2005, conference call and live Webcast will begin at 11:00 a.m. ET
2/25/05 NTT Develops Micro Hydrogen Gas Fuel Cell for Mobile Devices Nikkei
2/25/05 Florida Lends California Advice on Hydrogen Energy DEP Deputy Secretary Bedwell addresses California Hydrogen Business Council Florida Department of Environmental Protection
2/25/05 ZERO-EMISSION BUSES TO BEGIN RUNNING IN SANTA CLARA CO. Bay City News Wire
2/25/05 SATCON TECHNOLOGY CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Results of Operations, Financial Statements and Exhibits
2/25/05 It's down to wire for electric car's fans ""God love these people," said Dave Barthmuss a spokesman for General Motors, of the EV1 champions. "But it's time to move on to other technology." L.A.Daily News
2/25/05 Fuel cell will power new Foothills center IdaTech IdahoStatesman.com
2/25/05 Sulzer Hexis: one million operating hours of fuel cell systems ECOreporter.de
2/25/05 Stock soars on news at Millennium Analysts see overreaction, however AP/Dow Jones
2/25/05 ReliOn Appoints Gary Flood as Chief Executive Officer Internal Appointment Builds on Strengths
2/25/05NOK Develops Better Separator For Fuel Cells "integrates the separator with the seal" Nikkei
2/24/05 Ford Power Products Introduces Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines To Industrial Marketplace "Target industrial applications for prototype hydrogen engines include airline ground support equipment (GSE) and power generation (gen-sets). Production timing and volumes will be dictated by market demand."
2/23/05 NTT Develops Small Direct-Hydrogen Fuel Cell For Cell Phones "NTT has built a prototype that weights 104 grams, measures 4.2 x 8cm and is only 1.3cm thick. The device is larger than the lithium-ion battery typically built into a cell phone, but it can power nine hours of talk time, compared to the normal two hours. NTT plans to have a practical version of its new fuel cell ready in two to three years." Nikkei
2/24/05 Air Products' Fueling Station Technology to Provide Hydrogen in California for VTA Zero-Emission Buses Fueling Advances Feature Faster Hydrogen Fills for Fleet Buses
2/24/05 Linde study shows: Cost is not a big obstacle to hydrogen car infrastructure
2/24/05 "International Hydrogen Day" is paving the way for a hydrogen society Linde
2/24/05 Linde initiative: A hydrogen highway through Germany
2/24/05 Hydrogen Valley to put Wales on green map Western Mail
2/24/05 University of North Carolina researchers study fuel cells, focus on portable possibilities
2/24/05 Millennium Cell up; company to show fuel cell prototype AP
2/24/05 Plasma Environmental Technologies Inc.: Tests Planned for Fuel Cells Powered by Hydrogen Produced From Industrial Waste with Astris
2/24/05 Astris Energi Signs Co-Venture Agreement With Plasma Environmental Technologies
2/24/05 Shell appoints Graeme Sweeney CEO Shell Renewables and President Shell Hydrogen La Société
2/24/05 Hydrogen car filling network in Europe is feasible, study finds Reuters via Detroit News
2/24/05 IdaTech Opens European Office
2/24/05 Fuel Cell Infrastructure To Cost Europe EUR3.5 Billion - Linde Dow Jones
2/24/05 Cellex Power Products, Inc. Completes Successful Field Trial with $2 Million (CDN) Contribution from Sustainable Development Technology Canada Cellex demonstrates hydrogen fuel cell products in rider pallet fork-lifts
2/24/05 Fuel test run comes to Tahoe $1M secured for hydrogen car research The Union
2/23/05 H2FC Update: Millennium Cell
2/23/05 Linde plans to build network of hydrogen gas stations in Germany AFX
2/23/05 UND student group receives fuel cell donation "John Deere e-Power Technologies has donated a fuel cell power module valued at $150,000" Grand Forks Herald
2/23/05 How nanocubes can run your laptop "A canister filled with newly developed "nanocubes" is able to hold several times more gas than an empty one." Telegraph (UK)
2/23/05 Santa Barbara Hosts Dedication for Clean Renewable Fuel Cell Power at Its El Estero Wastewater Treatment Facility Fuel Cell Power Plants Provide 500 Kilowatts of 'Ultra-Clean' Power and Continues City's Commitment to Environmental Leadership FuelCell Energy
2/23/05 Millennium Cell to Power Laptop with Hydrogen Energy System at Intel Developer Forum First Hydrogen Energy System That Can Fit inside the Device
2/23/05 Hydrogen fuel to be tested at Tahoe: Tests funded with $1 million federal grant Tahoe Daily Tribune
2/24/05 Improving hydrogen storage The storage of hydrogen using magnesium powder could be a very interesting option. The Hindu
2/23/05 Germany, US Agree to Work Together to Reduce Climate Change "the two countries will work together on projects to promote the commercial use of the greenhouse gas methane, on making heat and power production from coal and natural gas cleaner and more efficient and on research into hydrogen and fuel-cell technologies, as well as promoting greater use of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. They didn't commit to any numerical targets." Bloomberg
2/23/05 Plug Power matches estimates for quarter Albany Business Review
2/23/05 The show "Hydrogen Hopes" premieres February 23rd, 2005 Hydrogen Myths, Hydrogen Power, Meet the Ovshinskys PBS
2/23/05 Medis versus Arotech Globes (Israel)
2/23/05 Plug Power Announces Year-End Financial Results and Summarizes 2004 Accomplishments Shipped 150 systems in 2004 "Net loss for 2004 was $46.7 million"
2/23/05 Distributed Energy Systems Corp. Announces its Northern Power Systems Unit Wins Contract to Provide Advanced CHP System for United States Postal Service Facility in San Diego
2/23/05 Ceres receives major government backing through £1.9 million contract
2/23/05 Honda to introduce hybrid scooters in Viet Nam "powered by fuel cells and gasoline-electric engines" Vietnam Economic Times
2/23/05 NexTech Awarded $3 Million Towards Development of SOFCs for Transportation APU Applications
2/21/05 BC SUPPORTS HYDROGEN FUEL LEADERSHIP WITH $2 MILLION British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines
2/22/05 U.S. stocks drop as oil surges and dollar slides "concerns that other central banks would follow South Korea's lead in diversifying reserves out of U.S. assets . . . Dow Jones industrial average closed down 174.02 points, or 1.61 percent, at 10,611.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 17.43 points, or 1.45 percent . . . Nasdaq Composite Index was down 28.30 points, or 1.37 percent" Reuters
2/22/05 Time to Check the Plug "When it reports on its earnings tomorrow, hydrogen fuel cell pioneer Plug Power (Nasdaq: PLUG) will almost certainly tell us that 2004 has been a tough year. . ." The Motley Fool
2/22/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Reports Fourth Quarter 2004 Results
2/22/05 Distributed Energy Systems Schedules Conference Call to Discuss Fourth Quarter Results Friday, March 11th, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern
2/22/05 ECD's Central Analytical Laboratory Achieves ISO Certification
2/22/05 Harvest Energy Technology, Inc. Provides the Core Technology for Natural Gas-Based Hydrogen Refueling Demonstration Projects in 2005 "HET will supply its proprietary high pressure SMR fuel processor to Hydrogenics Corporation under contract to ChevronTexaco for testing in mid-2005."
2/22/05 Ztek to Showcase Demonstration Projects at Hydrogen Expo USA Company projects include hydrogen refueling station in California and SOFC generator in Connecticut.
2/22/05 A Prototype Next-generation Fuel Cell-with High Output Power and Compact Size-for Directly Mounting in a Mobile Phone NTT
2/21/05 Hydrogen energy project achieves breakthrough The University of Queensland spin-off company, Hydrexia Pty Ltd "Current hydrogen storage methods are expensive and suffer from performance disadvantages but we’ve developed a range of magnesium alloys which has the potential to overcome these problems"
2/21/05 Astris Energi Hires Investment Banker Fraser Mackenzie
2/21/05 Donaldson Ships First Fuel Cell Filters Manufactured in Japan
2/21/05 Big Oil Steps Aside in Battle Over Arctic "if Mr. Bush's drilling plan passes in Congress after what is expected to be a fierce fight, it may prove to be a triumph of politics over geology . . . The major oil companies are largely uninterested in drilling in the refuge, skeptical about the potential there. Even the plan's most optimistic backers agree that any oil from the refuge would meet only a tiny fraction of America's needs. . . If the government gave them the leases for free they wouldn't take them . . ." NY Times
2/21/05 Chemistry Seems Right for Alexandria Firm H2Gen Innovations Inc Washington Post
2/21/05 Ceres’ system integration programme enters key second phase with Dunlop Aerospace
2/21/05 Fuel cell technology drives new degree program’s approval The South End (student newspaper of Wayne State University, Detroit)
2/21/05 Nissan Develops First In-House Fuel Cell Stack and High-Pressure Hydrogen Storage System Nissan press release
2/21/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp.-'HTC' or 'the Corporation'-Announces The Opening Of Its Hydrogen Membrane Reactor
2/21/05 Hyundai Unveils First Hydrogen-Powered Tucson SUV Energieportal24
2/21/05 Hydrogenics Announces Appointment of New CFO
2/21/05 UTC Fuel Cells car fills up at first hydrogen fueling station Mass High Tech
2/22/05 Nissan Develops High-Performance Fuel Cell Stack "succeeded in making the stack 40% smaller than conventional models that have the same power output by integrating interior pipes. The life of the stack was also more than doubled by improving the materials used for the electrodes. In addition, by using stronger materials, Nissan's high-pressure hydrogen fuel tank is able to store about 30% more fuel than conventional tanks of the same size. With these improvements, its fuel cell vehicle can run about 500km on a single filling of fuel" Nikkei
2/2005 Hydrogen Safety Report National Hydrogen Association
2/20/05 UK to shun ‘clean’ hydrogen energy "report argues that the production of grid electricity is “the most CO2-effective use of limited renewable resources”, and adds that “it is not currently possible to assess whether hydrogen could enable the exploitation of remote renewables”." Sunday Herald
2/19/05 Hydrogen Bus Arrives Ahead of Its Fuel Supply "Florida doesn't have its first hydrogen fueling station yet, but it's got a hydrogenpowered bus ready to fill up.' Lakeland Ledger
2/19/05 It ain't easy being green when you're an investor The Globe and Mail
2/19/05 'Hydrogen highway' starts clean-fuel push Daytona Beach News
2/17/05 Energy and the cost of doing nothing Montana Standard
2/19/05 Hydrogen fuel research station opens in Chino Whittier Daily news
2/18/05 Hydrogen prospectors gather in Santa Fe Los Alamos Monitor
2/18/05 Does Ballard Have Any Juice Left? "the company consumed $85 million in cash during 2004 and expects even more in 2005. With about $280 million in cash, the company is clearly running out of time before a major financing event is needed" Motley Fool
2/18/05 Construction begins on state's first hydrogen energy station Orlando Business Journal
2/18/05 First Chevron Hydrogen Energy Station Unveiled ChevronTexaco, Hyundai Motor Co., and UTC Fuel Cells Launch Department of Energy Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Demonstration and Validation Project ChevronTexaco Corp.
2/18/05 UTC Fuel Cells-Powered Car Fills Up at Nation's First ChevronTexaco Hydrogen Fueling Station UTC Fuel Cells
2/18/05 InPlay: FuelCell Energy recently catches a bid intrady as it breaks above its morning high near 10.50 "currently testing its 200-day simple moving average at 10.64"
2/18/05 Hyundai Fuel Cell Vehicle Fleet Testing Launches at Unveiling of Hydrogen Energy Station Hyundai Motor Co., UTC Fuel Cells and ChevronTexaco Launch Hydrogen Fleet and Infrastructure Project at Ceremony in Chino Hyundai Motor Co.
2/18/05 Hydrogen and fuel cell technology platform - annual event Cordis
2/18/05 Skittish institutional investors send Ballard shares to nine-year low "A lot of institutional investors have decided that the way to play the alternative energy sector is through wind farms" Globe and Mail
2/17/05 New data point to man-made global warming, severe climate change "The debate is no longer whether there is a global warming signal . . . The debate is what are we going to do about it." Knight Ridder
2/17/05 Hydrogenics Corporation De-lists Stuart Energy Systems Corporation
2/17/05 Ballard's Power Drain Motley Fool
2/17/05 Governor Bush to Unveil Plan for Clean Energy and Launch Florida's Hydrogen Highway
2/17/05 Battelle works on fuel cell for military BizJournals
2/17/05 Ballard Power Systems shares fall after reporting $55M US loss in Q4 CP
2/16/05 Ballard Power quarterly loss bigger on charges Reuters
2/16/05 Energy Official to Open Hydrogen Fueling Station in Chino,California U.S. DOE
2/16/05 Clemson research could help turn hydrogen hype into 'hy'ways "The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Clemson University a three-year, $856,000 grant to develop more efficient methods for producing hydrogen."
2/16/05 Ballard Ballard Power shares fall to 9-year low as loss widens CBC
3/2005 On the Road to Fuel-Cell Cars Scientific American
2/16/05 University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Institute Business Development Programs "DuraPower...Plans to bring to market the DuraPower "Expedition," the first market-ready [SOFC] that is truly portable, affordable and compatible with widely-available one pound propane tanks."
2/16/05 Starwood will power hotel with fuel cell energy plant Dow Jones
2/16/05 Ballard Power Systems Announces Significant Advances in Fuel Cell Stack Technology
2/16/05 Ballard Power Systems Announces 2004 Financial Results, Corporate Achievements and 2005 Outlook
2/9/05 New model clues into hydrogen production A new computational modeling tool could make the production of hydrogen cheaper as companies throughout the U.S. seek alternative energy supplies. The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society (ISA)
2/16/05 Energy Conversion Devices Announces Completion of $87.8 Million Private Placement of Common Stock
2/16/05 FuelCell shares rise on Starwood Hotels deal Reuters
2/16/05 $2 Billion Investment Needed for Hydrogen Infrastructure by 2012, Says ABI Research
2/16/05 MIT kicks off clean-energy business contest Boston Business Journal
2/16/05 TARDEC Displays Commitment to Joint Expeditionary Army at AUSA Winter Symposium "will showcase a fuel-cell battery hybrid Alternative Mobility Vehicle developed in concert with Quantum Technologies"
2/16/05 United Defense, Battelle Demonstrate Prototype Fuel Cell Power Unit for Bradley Fighting Vehicle "This fuel cell technology was developed at Battelle's laboratories in Columbus, Ohio and Richland, Washington, with funding support from the U.S. Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC)"
2/16/05 Japan's Mazda opens hydrogen filling station for environment-friendly car "in Mazda's global headquarters in Hiroshima prefecture" AFX
2/16/05 Mazda's Hydrogen Filling Station Given The Green Light Japan Corporate News
2/16/05 ZAP to Display With Fuel Cell Partner Anuvu at Hydrogen Conference in Santa Fe, February 17-18
2/16/05 Glimpse into the future SMC students designing hydrogen-fueled motorcycle. South Bend Tribune
2/16/05 Starwood Enters into Agreement with FuelCell Energy and Alliance Power Joint Venture for Hotel Fuel Cell Power Plants One-Megawatt Project for Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina Will Be the First Executed Under the Agreement
2/16/05 Hydrogenics Announces Departure of CFO "to pursue other career opportunities"
2/15/05 ChevronTexaco Warns of Global Bidding War "The rapid growth in energy demand from Asia coupled with difficulties in accessing oil reserves has also resulted in a new energy equation where the days of cheap oil and gas are numbered, Dave O'Reilly, chief executive of ChevronTexaco, told a . . . conference" Reuters
2/15/05 New York City taps tide for electricity Project is one of several worldwide to harness marine power Reuters
2/15/04 EMTEC gets state money "A research center in Kettering has landed a state grant to help drive expansion in the fuel cell industry." Dayton Business Journal
2/15/04 Hydrogen fuel pioneer recalls the early days Los Alamos Monitor
2/15/04 Quantum Awarded U.S. Patent for Transportable Hydrogen Refueling Stations
2/15/05 Plug Power to Announce Year-End and Fourth Quarter Results Wednesday, February 23; live conference call and Webcast at 10:00 a.m. (ET) 2/14/05 First Closing: Chrysalix Energy II Focused on Fuel Cell, Hydrogen and Related Energy Technologies
2/14/05 Chrysalix Energy Draws Banks, Ontario. Teachers To 2nd Fund "Managers will look at alternative energy technologies beyond just pure fuel cell and hydrogen applications. For example, investments in interesting early-stage solar or wind technology plays may be considered" Dow Jones
2/14/05 Honda's fuel cell-powered car on display at Union College Albany Business Review
2/14/05 Paint Power "Ford's new solution captures the volatile organic compounds from paint waste and concentrates them into a rich mixture of hydrocarbons. That mixture is then fed into a fuel reformer that turns it into a hydrogen-rich gas. . . Ford modified the system for the Wayne plant, substituting a Stirling engine for the fuel cell . . . Ford hasn't given up on the fuel cell idea. . . " Forbes
2/14/05 Nokia wants holistic approach to security "Nokia's Pertti, said that battery life was an issue, but that it would be solved by focusing on lowering power consumption rather than waiting for dramatic improvements in battery or fuel-cell technology." ZDNet UK
2/14/05 High Power Supercapacitors From Carbon Nanotubes "developed a method to deposit the nanotubes on nickel foil so that the nanotubes were aligned and packed closely together" UC Davis
2/14/05 Hydrogen fuel cell project at Princeton farm called world's first hydrogen from cow manure HometownSource.com
2/14/05 Franklin Fuel Cells brings in more money BizJournals
2/14/05 QuestAir to supply H-3200 hydrogen purifier to AC Transit Hydrogen Energy Station
2/14/05 FuelCell Energy Promotes R. Daniel Brdar to Chief Operating Officer Christopher R. Bentley Assumes Responsibility for Strategic Manufacturing Development and Government R&D Operations
2/9/05 California Fuel Cell Partnership Develops New Tool for Sampling Quality of Hydrogen Fuel at Station Dispensers
2/14/05 Nokia Sees Big Demand for HSDPA Phones After 2005 "Handsets utilizing fuel cell power sources are some way off, Korhonen said. The company is running trials on fuel cells, which allow for better power consumption." Dow Jones
2/14/05 Ferndale to consider privately financed transit system "The high-tech system would include solar panels generating electricity used to break down water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen would supply energy for stainless-steel train cars that could be powered by fuel cells . . ." Detroit Free Press
2/14/05 Ener1 Nanotech Unit Prepares to Commercialize Revolutionary Battery Electrodes Will produce high discharge rate lithium-ion battery electrodes for hybrid electric vehicles, other uses
2/14/05 U.S. cities eye ocean waves for power Reuters
2/14/05 SatCon Appoints David E. O'Neil Vice President of Finance and Treasurer
2/13/05 Trying Out a Power Source of the Future LIPA 10 MW proposal NY Times
2/13/05 COUNTDOWN TO KYOTO PROTOCOL No magic wand to make eco-woes disappear Daily Yomiuri
2/13/05 Canadian alternative energy companies see opportunity in Kyoto agreement Ballard CP
2/11/05 PNNL Lands Member in Prestigious National Academy; Fuel Cell Pioneer Subhash Singhal Elected to National Academy of Engineering "a leader in solid oxide fuel cell technology . . . leads the technical, managerial and commercialization efforts for PNNL's extensive fuel cell program"
2/11/05 Nuvera joins with Italy’s Uhdenora to bring fuel cell power to chemical plants Mass High Tech
2/11/05 Astris Energi Appoints Danziger & Hochman As Auditors
2/11/05 New Electronic Technology Advances Fuel Cell Development Science Daily
2/11/05 Lincoln Composites Provide Fuel Tanks for Hydrogen Fuelling Stations "selected by Gas Technology Institute (GTI) to provide high pressure storage tanks for two hydrogen fuelling applications."
2/11/05 Nature Points the way to a sustainable hydrogen economy John Innes Centre
2/11/05 Medis Technologies to Present at Roth Capital Partners 17th Annual Growth Stock Conference February 22, 2005 at 5:00 pm Eastern
2/10/05 Energy Conversion Plans Stock Sale AP
2/10/05 UHDENORA, Nuvera to Develop Advanced Energy Saving Systems for the Electrochemical Industry "Firms agree to engage in the development of modular fuel cellsystem aimed at increasing chlor alkali plant eco- efficiency"
2/10/05 Altair Nanotechnologies Achieves Breakthrough in Battery Materials "Three times the power of existing Lithium Ion batteries at the same price and with recharge times measured in a few minutes rather than hours"
2/10/05 Ballard Power Systems Announces 2004 Year End Conference Call February 17, 2005 at 7:00 a.m. PST
2/10/05 Cobasys Announces Organizational Changes ECD
2/9/05 White House Budget Boosts Funding for Hydrogen "includes $260 million for the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative, an increase of $35 million over 2005 funding levels" DOE
2/9/05 House Committee on Energy and Commerce Oral Testimony of Secretary Samuel W. Bodman "the high-volume cost of automotive fuel cells has been reduced from $275 per kilowatt in 2002 to $200 per kilowatt in 2004 using innovative processes developed by the national laboratories and fuel cell developers. Achieving a cost of $50 per kilowatt is a technological advance required to help make fuel cell vehicles cost competitive with today’s vehicles."
2/9/05 ECD Announces $87.8 Million Private Placement of Common Stock
2/9/05 Bacteria batteries for mobile phones Daily Telegraph
2/9/05 New Electronic Technology Advances Fuel Cell Development "University Seeks Patent, Shares Technology With Partners in DOE's SECA Program" DOE
2/9/05 Fuel cells: iron is the new platinum "iron–sulphur framework functions as an electrocatalyst for proton reduction, a potentially important step towards new materials to replace platinum in the anodes of fuel cells" Nature.com
2/9/05 Clash over policies on energy, pollution "Pivotal environmental battles of second Bush term may hinge on quest for more energy, and for cleaner skies." The Christian Science Monitor
2/9/05 AEC Completes Final Testing of its Demonstration Hydrogen Production Unit
2/9/05 Form 10-Q for ENERGY CONVERSION DEVICES INC
2/9/05 Voller buys KAT-Chem assets, Appoints New Chief Technology Officer
2/8/05 President Proposes $322 Million for Department of Energy Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Programs USFCC US Fuel Cell Council
2/8/05 Canadian fuel-cell producer takes over Astris Czech Business Weekly
2/8/05 Japanese Institute Succeeds in Continuous Hydrogen Production from Woodchips Japan for Sustainability "system has a throughput of 10 kg/day, based on a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption gasification technology" EarthVision
2/8/05 ECD has a surge in earnings AP via Detroit Free Press
2/8/05 Form 8-K/A for SATCON TECHNOLOGY CORP - Change in Directors
2/8/05 The Revolution That Wasn't--Yet "Fuel cells are still too expensive to displace traditional energy sources" Forbes
2/8/05 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces Second-Quarter 2005 Financial Results Conference Call and Webcast February 8, 2005 at 12:00 p.m. ET
2/8/05 Hydrogenics Announces Reporting Date for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2004 Financial Results Wednesday, March 2, 2005
2/7/05 ASU researchers seek way to harness hydrogen power Speeding up natural process part of project Arizona State University
2/7/05 Hydrogen Storage Project Moves Ahead as BOC Invests in HERA BOC
2/7/05 Bush's budget boosts coal, hydrogen, nuclear funding CBS Market Watch
2/7/05 Fuel Cells Move From Batteries To Battery Chargers InformationWeek
2/7/05 Form 8-K for SATCON TECHNOLOGY CORP finalized and executed a Loan and Security Agreement with Silicon Valley Bank
2/7/05 Energy Conversion Devices Posts 2Q Profit AP
2/7/05 Mitsubishi Motors, Heavy eye joint development of fuel-cell car Kyodo
2/7/05 ABI Research Ranks Companies in Its First Annual Automotive Fuel Cell Vendor Analysis
2/7/05 Medis Technologies Announces March 16th Demonstration of Fuel Cell Power Pack Products
2/7/05 Energy Conversion Devices Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2005 Operating Results
2/5/04 Viva Hydrogen! Honda Leases Fuel Cell Vehicles to Las Vegas PHOTO! American International Automobile Dealers Association
2/5/04 North students 'Fueling the Future' model hydrogen car Salisbury Post
2/4/05 A Tiny Engine That Could "a microengine that is essentially a fuel tank. About the size of two dimes, it could potentially deliver enough juice to power a notebook." PC Magazine
2/3/05 Evergreen Solar Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering
2/2/05 Portable Power Developer’s Conference Program Finalized Darnell Group
2/5/05 Fuel-cell forklift shows hydrogen's advance Hydrogenics and GM Toronto Star
2/4/05 Intelligent Energy receives conditional 111.8 mln usd all-share takeover bid AFX
2/4/05 Hydrogen in Your Future? "In fact, hydrogen may be the answer to our energy needs, and the first stop along the hydrogen highway is the automobile." Kiplinger.com
2/3/05 Shell cuts reserves by another 10% "has now been forced to cut its proved oil and gas reserves by almost a third in 12 months. The news overshadowed its reporting yesterday of record net income of $18.5bn (£9.82bn) in 2004, on the back of high crude prices." Financial Times
2/3/05 Hybrids To Top Out At 3% Of Market "Automakers have said gas-electric engines largely are a transitional technology that eventually will be replaced by hydrogen-powered fuel cells, but experts say a marketable hydrogen vehicle is at least a decade or two away." CBS News
2/3/05 "Carbon storage" option under microscope at global warming confab "The CO2 would be captured in the plant's pipes as the fossil fuel is burned, then pumped out, sometimes over hundreds of kilometers (miles), to underground sedimentary basins and stored." AFP
2/4/05 Hydrogen powers futuristic car Swiss researchers say hydrogen as a fuel is slowly coming of age, but warn that it is not yet ready to take to the road. Swissinfo
2/4/05 Fuel-Cell Cars Quietly Race to the Future American International Automobile Dealers Association
2/4/05 ECD Announces Ovonyx and Elpida Sign Technology Licensing and Support Agreement for Phase-Change Memory
2/3/05 Dickie Walker In Reverse Merger Pact With Fuel Cell Co Dow Jones
2/3/05 Dickie Walker Marine, Inc. Announces Proposed Recommended Offer to Acquire Intelligent Energy Holdings Plc
2/3/05 City evaluates cost sharing proposal with IdaTech "to incorporate an Etagen5 fuel cell generator unit into the new downtown Bend parking structure" Bend.com
2/3/05 Honda Introduces City of Las Vegas as Next Fuel Cell Customer Honda FCX Fuel Cell Car is First Fuel Cell Vehicle in Nevada
2/2/05 Haldor Topsøe reaches milestone in development of fuel cell SOFC Copenhagen Capacity
2/3/05 Apollo Resources International Changes Ticker Symbol from PWBL to AOOR
2/3/05 Dynetek supplies storage solution for hydrogen-powered forklift "to Hydrogenics Corporation"
2/3/05 Acker to Discuss MTI Progress at Citigroup Small and Mid-Cap Conference
2/2/05 State of the Union Address "To keep our economy growing, we also need reliable supplies of affordable, environmentally responsible energy. (Applause.) . . . my budget provides strong funding for leading-edge technology -- from hydrogen-fueled cars, to clean coal, to renewable sources such as ethanol. (Applause.) Four years of debate is enough: I urge Congress to pass legislation that makes America more secure and less dependent on foreign energy. (Applause.)" whitehouse.gov
2/2/05 AccelRate Announces Key Management Addition "Debby Harris to the position of Vice-President, Corporate and Market Development. Ms. Harris joins AccelRate with a 25-year background in communications, marketing and business development. Prior to joining AccelRate, Ms. Harris was with Ballard Power Systems"
2/2/05 QuestAir Directors purchase shares
2/2/05 Go with the Flow: Tidal Power "the U.K. just announced it could host its first large-scale ocean power project—one that could be operational within three years . . . South Korea, for example, says that construction of the world's largest tidal and wave power plant is expected to begin in November of this year. It would be able to generate 254 megawatts per hour when it is eventually completed" UtiliPoint IssueAlert
2/2/05 Contango Capital Closes $8.25 Million Energy Technology Venture Fund "focused on the development of hydrogen generation technologies and fuel cell products"
2/2/05 Fuel cell federal funding unlikely "the city's chances of receiving federal funding for a $2 million fuel cell at the new Woburn Memorial High School" Woburn Daily Times Chronicle
2/2/05 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces Second-Quarter 2005 Financial Results Conference Call and Webcast 12:00 p.m. ET on February 8, 2005
2/2/05 LIPA plans new type of generator Newsday
2/2/05 Hydrogen Energy Conference Attracts National Attention New Mexico Hydrogen Business Council
2/2/05 Fideris Inc. Opens EMEA Office Fideris Inc. (formerly Lynntech)
2/1/05 LIPA Issues RFP for Fuel Cell Power Plant Seeking Facility Capable of Generating 10 Megawatts of Electricity for Summer 2006 LIPA Press Release
2/2/05 University of St Andrews Receives £600K Grant from BOC to Develop Fuel Cell Technology Azom.com
2/1/05 Sask. truck runs on hydrogen-gasoline fuel CBC
2/1/05 The Sun Fuel in Volkswagen's Future Transcript of keynote address to the Motor Press Guild at the opening of 2005 Los Angeles Auto Show by Volkswagen Chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder "Hydrogen fuel cells are not a realistic solution at the moment. There is no efficient way of storing hydrogen in the car or of transportation." EV World
2/1/05 Two Socially Responsible Investment Exchange Traded Funds Launch "the PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio ETF invests in renewable energy companies" SocialFunds.com
2/1/05 Request For Proposals: To Develop a Ten Megawatt Fuel Cell Generation Project "The Authority may select one project for development pursuant to this solicitation, or may decline to accept any or all proposals. . . Proposers’ Conference for this RFP on March 1, 2005" Long Island Power Authority H2FC Update
2/1/05 LIPA eyeing fuel-cell project "looking for a firm to install and operate fuel cells that would produce up to 10 megawatts . . . The RFP states that the authority would like to have the fuel cells up and running between April 1 and July 1 of next year." Long Island Business News
2/1/05 GM, Hydrogenics Demonstrate No-emission, No-compromise Hydrogen-powered Forklift Hydrogenics PHOTO!
2/1/05 Voller generates £10 million of interest CityWire.co.uk VLR Quote
2/1/05 Martinrea invests in Hy-Drive as companies sign deal to develop hydrogen station CP
2/1/05 Ministry to finance fuel-cell research "The ministry has set a target of 2.1 million kilowatts of fuel-cell power for household and corporate use by 2010." The Asahi Shimbun
2/2005 Mobile Phones Drive Fuel Cell Development "If mobile phones start offering functions like digital broadcast reception and WLAN support, existing batteries will be too weak. Could fuel cells provide the answer? . . . Most engineers in the fuel cell field seem to agree that the power source will not achieve commercial use until 2007, when regulations are relaxed to allow fuel cartridges to be carried onto aircraft. . ." NE Asia Online (Nikkei)

January 2005

1/31/05 DaimlerChrysler Rises as Dubai Buys $1 Billion Stake "Dubai becomes Stuttgart, Germany- based DaimlerChrysler's third-biggest shareholder with the purchase announced yesterday by government-owned Dubai Holding. Deutsche Bank AG and Kuwait are the two largest investors." Bloomberg
1/31/05 Auto majors betting big on hydrogen Financial Express
1/27/05 THE LATEST FUEL CELL NEWS IN JAPAN,JANUARY 2005 FCDIC
1/31/05 Ford to Use an E.P.A. Engine in Effort to Develop Diesel Cars NY Times
1/31/05 Nuclear Backers Modify Stance on Waste "The problem we now face is largely a product of industry's own making . . . If the industry simply shut up about Yucca Mountain, instead of dishonestly claiming that on-site spent fuel storage is an unacceptable hazard, the issue could have been largely defused" NY Times
1/31/05 Energize Your Portfolio BLDP, FCEL HYGS PLUG Motley Fool
1/31/05 GE Commercial Finance Launches Initiative to Serve Companies Focused on Clean Energy and Related Technologies Linking Expertise/Capabilities of Technology Lending and Energy Financial Services Businesses
1/31/05 Acumentrics Ships Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System to Sumitomo of Japan for Testing
1/31/05 Hydrogen fuel-cell fans seek converts "Burns has picked up a zealous apostle for the hydrogen economy. He's Metaldyne Co. Chairman Tim Leuliette, a plain-speaking, John-the-Baptist sort of guy, who says the whole country is headed for Hades unless we kick our oil habit." Ann Arbor News
1/31/05 Toyota unveils hydrogen-powered fuel cell hybrid bus before expo Kyodo
1/31/05 United Solar Ovonic Signs Two-Year Agreement With Conergy AG for 1.5 MW of Photovoltaic Products Agreement to expand sale of UNI-SOLAR® products in France, Greece, Spain and Switzerland
1/31/05 Astris Energi Completes Czech Affiliate Purchase
1/31/05 Bush, Iraq and the hydrogen economy "The hydrogen economy is really a nuclear economy. Investors and the rest of corporate America may not realise how close the country is to making a gigantic bet on a nuclear future. . ." Financial Times
1/31/05 Genoil Hopes Hydrogen to Boost Energy from Oil "believes improving hydrogen use at conventional oil refineries can increase yields of oil products from heavy oil by as much as 25 percent." Reuters
1/30/05 Batteries turn digital nation on Medis Cox News Service
1/29/05 Another hydrogen pump: is this the future of motoring? "Jeremy Bentham, who heads Shell's hydrogen divsion, says the technology and infrastructure are where cell phones were in the 1980s." WXXA, NY
1/29/05 Nissan Chief: Hybrid Cars Make No Sense "He also poured cold water on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, which many automakers see as the industry's next big technological breakthrough."The cost to build one fuel cell car is about $800,000. Do the math and you figure out that we will have to reduce the cost of that car by more than 95 percent in order to gain widespread marketplace acceptance," Ghosn said." ABC News
1/28/05 The New Color of Oil Our entrepreneurs are at it again. This time they're finding fresh ways to help the U.S. kick its oil habit. "In Silicon Valley hydrogen, solar, and wind power are being talked about as if they were the next Internet." Fortune
1/28/05 ETFs going socially responsible First clean-energy fund set to launch next week "The ETF, which will be managed by PowerShares Capital Management, will track the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, a benchmark calculated by the Amex that was launched in August. The Amex collaborated with index provider WilderShares, LLC in developing the index. . . As of Jan. 27, the top companies in the index were Distributed Energy (DESC) , Evergreen Solar (ESLR) and Zoltek Companies (ZOLT), according to the Amex" MarketWatch
1/27/05 Reuters Photo: simulated Shell Hydrogen fueling station
1/28/05 Hydrogen project charges up students at Lawrence Tech Research conducted at Southfield center to help pave way for a new fuel source. Detroit News
1/28/05 Honda Leases FC Stack-equipped FCX Featuring Sub-freezing Temperature Start-up Capability to Hokkaido Prefectural Japan Corporate News
1/27/05 Coming, but not too soon: fuel cell-powered vehicles "reporter Nelson Antosh talked to Pierre Dufour, president and chief executive of Air Liquide America. . ." Houston Chronicle
1/27/05 Apollo Resources International Forms Alternative Fuels Subsidiary "subsidiary, called DeCarb LLC, is focused solely on producing, marketing, and distributing a low-cost, high efficiency propane fuel substitute that involves cutting edge hydrogen fuel technologies . . . DeCarb is committed to the work that was initiated in the former Powerball entity"
1/27/05 NETL and Carnegie Mellon team up to create new paradigms for hydrogen production "new computational modeling tool that could make the production of hydrogen cheaper . . . predicts hydrogen flux through metal alloy separation membranes that could be used to produce pure hydrogen" National Energy Technology Lab
1/27/05 Catacel builds fuel cell part "received a contract worth $234,352 to show the feasibility of a fuel cell replacement part . . . ovel Spiral Stackable Reactor for low-cost stationary hydrogen production . . . In another contract, the Edison center said it awarded a $360,287 deal to Faraday Technology Inc. of Clayton to develop low-cost, mass production fabrication technology for membrane electrode assemblies for" PEM-FCs Tribune Chronicle (Warren, Ohio)
1/27/05 Northern Power Systems to Supply Solar Power Systems for North American Earthquake Monitoring Experiment Stand-Alone Systems Will Power Seismometer Sites Across United States As Part of National Science Foundation EarthScope Experiment
1/27/05 Hydrogen Future Drives Into The Big Apple GM and Shell announce fuel cell vehicle fleet and refueling station; NY to be critical link in 'East Coast Corridor' General Motors Corporation
1/27/05 GM launches fuel-cell push with more vehicles Automaker teams with Shell to put up refueling stations along the East Coast. "The automaker hopes to operate a fleet of 40 fuel cell vehicles, powered by hydrogen, by 2008." Detroit News
1/27/05 Hydrogen storage can be improved Innovations-Report (Germany)
1/27/05 Short Positions in Selected H2FC Stocks as of 1/14/05 NASDAQ
1/27/05 Protonex and Millennium Cell to Demonstrate Portable Power System at the Tactical Power Sources Summit in Virginia
1/27/05 Kawasaki Heavy Develops Improved Liquid Hydrogen Tank "To demonstrate the feasibility of the new container, the company used it to ship liquid hydrogen 600km from a base in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, to a fuel cell vehicle filling station in Tokyo over public roads." Nikkei
1/26/05 Media Invite - General Motors Canada and Hydrogenics demonstrate next step to hydrogen commercialization "will demonstrate a hydrogen fuel cell-powered Class I forklift as well as refueling of this vehicle at an onsite hydrogen station"
1/26/05 Toyo Ink Develops Way To Make Hydrogen Sensors Using Cheap Pigment "a way to formulate an auto paint pigment into an electrode material that can be used to make hydrogen-gas sensors for fuel cell cars . . . Because the pigment is inexpensive and readily available, hydrogen sensors made this way promise to cost just around 10% of conventional devices" Nikkei
1/25/05 Tepco, Osaka Gas To Invest In Towa Real Estate "Tepco aims to sign on more condominiums that meet all their power needs with electricity, while Osaka Gas hopes to have more households use city-gas-powered fuel cells for their power needs." Nikkei
1/25/05 Joining forces to promote hydrogen technology "The European Hydrogen Association (EHA), an organisation that promotes the use of hydrogen technology, has decided to step up its activities and has launched an ambitious program for the coming years. . ." Hydro (formerly Norsk Hydro)
1/26/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. 'HTC' or 'the Corporation' Announces the Granting of Stock Options to Current Capital Corp.
1/26/05 PROTONEX DEMOS AN INDUSTRY FIRST "the industry's first 30 Watt portable fuel cell power system that is fully integrated with a chemical hydride fuel cartridge . . . compact, portable 150 Watt fuel cell system suitable for charging batteries in the field" Protonex
1/26/05 Fuel Cells Rally Developers of proton-exchange membranes for fuel cells predict an automotive revolution - GM Sequel Chemical & Engineering News
1/25/04 QuestAir Reports First Quarter 2005 Results
1/25/04 QuestAir Announces 2004 Results and 2005 Milestones
1/25/04 GenCell Corporation delivers 40 kW fuel cell system molten carbonate fuel cell operating on pipeline natural gas
1/25/04 Greenhouse Gas Technology Center Completes Verification of UTC Fuel Cells PC25C Power Plant Cell operating on renewable biogas provides on-site power and heat generation Southern Research Institute
1/25/04 DaimlerChrysler Fuel Cell Vehicles Operate in Freezing Temperatures DaimlerChrysler
1/25/04 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Announces Significant CNG System Orders for European Bus Market
1/24/05 GM Unveils State Of New York Fuel Cell Vehicle Initiative "will supply the state of New York with about a dozen fuel-cell-powered minivans and sport- utility vehicles, while Shell will supply the hydrogen refueling capabilities" Dow Jones
1/24/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. (formerly Westrange Corp.) Announces Name and Symbol Change and Completion of Acquisition of HTC Hydrogen Thermochem Corp.
1/24/05 Quantum Awarded Fuel System Production Contract for General Motors' 2006 Natural Gas Sierra and Silverado Pick-Up Trucks
1/24/05 ITM POWER PLC: Interim Results for the six months ended 31 October 2004
1/24/05 In 2005, how to align your money with your values "Hydrogen cars will become viable investments. . ." Christian Science Monitor
1/24/05 Gov't Investment in Eco-friendly Energies Up 66 Pct this Year "The ministry said research and development funds will be focused on developing hydrogen fuel cells and the harnessing of solar and wind energies. " Yonhap News (Korea)
1/24/05 Energy Crisis 1: Why batteries aren't good enough Moore's Law doesn't work for power supplies... "government and private research and development dollars have poured into fuel-cell research rather than into basic battery designs. The direction of investment away from batteries has contributed to today's power gap, contends Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials engineering at MIT. "They put all of their eggs in one basket. Here we are, seven or eight years later, and fuel-cell applications are nowhere near to realisation" . . ." TechWorld (UK)
1/23/05 Field to fuel Farmers have a new option for turning crops into cash: processing corn into ethanol "Ethanol derived from the cellulose, such as corn stalks and wood residue, has energy researchers excited about future possibilities. . . “Ethanol suffers from the fact, especially the grain ethanol story, that the subsidies that are on ethanol are not justified,” Sheehan said. The government, he added, has “encouraged us to stay with grain ethanol technology instead of really pushing and developing cellulosic ethanol technology.”" Columbia Missourian
1/23/05 Lutz: GM wary on hybrids "While hybrids help conserve fuel, GM as well as most automakers, insist the power source of the future has to be hydrogen, which is converted to electricity to power the vehicle." Chicago Tribune
1/23/05 Fill it up - with hydrogen Local firms and colleges working to develop hydrogen as fuel of future Buffalo News
1/22/05 Hydrogen Fuel May Not Be So 'Clean' Fox News
1/22/05 Scientists charge up weapons for their final assault on batteries Hitachi The Times, UK
1/22/05 Virent process converts sugar into electricity Wisconsin State Journal
1/22/05 Bozeman researcher looks into high-tech world of fuel cells Billings Gazette
1/21/05 EPOD International Converts Gas Motor to Hydrogen
1/21/05 Hydrogenics and Stuart Energy cut 58 jobs, 15% of merged workforce CP
1/21/05 A vision of the future "How far off is the hydrogen fuel cell? At last week’s Detroit Motor Show, GM’s Larry Burns spoke frankly . . ." Telegraph
1/21/05 Heating up the fuel-cell market "PEMEAS’ Celtec-brand membrane is made of polybenzimidazole, a heat-resistant polymer, as well as conductive materials. It can withstand temperatures of up to 200 degrees Celsius, rendering nearly a third of current fuel cell components unnecessary." Red Herring
1/21/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Financials for quarter ended 10/31/04 Edgar via yahoo
1/21/05 Hydrogenics Cuts 15% of Workers "The company said Stuart Energy employees have started to relocate to their new workplace, and full relocation is expected by the end of February." AP
1/21/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. Announces Second Generation 5kw System Achieves Targeted Output
1/21/05 Photos from the International Fuel Cell Expo in Tokyo: Hitachi 1 | Hitachi 2 | Aprilia-WL Gore | Sumitomo Reuters
1/21/05 Hydrogenics and Stuart Energy Reduce Combined Workforce by 15% Company is on track to Meet Cost Synergy Targets
1/20/05 PEMEAS Fuel Cell Technologies receives Innovation Award of the German Industry Fuel Cell Today
1/20/05 Supercapacitors: Novel High Octane -- High Protein Elements in Electric Energy Storage Energy Pulse
1/20/05 Honda's hydrogen cars to run in LV Las Vegas Sun
1/20/05 ASU researcher gets grant to explore new methods of hydrogen generation "research will focus on the development of new catalysts – materials that facilitate chemical conversion processes – for converting water to hydrogen" EurekAlert! (AAAS)
1/20/05 Hydrogenics Corporation Completes Acquisition of Stuart Energy Systems Corporation "Hydrogenics will now exercise its statutory rights under the Canada Business Corporations Act to compulsorily acquire the remaining Stuart Energy common shares that have not been deposited to the offer. Following the compulsory acquisition, Hydrogenics will de-list the Stuart Energy common shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange."
1/20/05 FUELCELL ENERGY INC Files SEC form 8-K, Sale of Equity "On January 14, 2005, FuelCell Energy, Inc. sold for $5,875 million an additional 5,875 shares of 5% Series B Cumulative Convertible Perpetual Preferred Stock (Liquidation Preference $1,000) ("Series B Preferred Stock") as part of an over-allotment option." sec.gov
1/20/05 Toyota expert says high-volume, hydrogen-powered fuel cell cars at least 25 years away "Even General Motors, which had been pushing for fuel cell vehicles by decade end, seems to be backing off from its goal of mass production of fuel cell vehicles by 2010. GM just aims to have a fuel cell powertrain designed and validated by 2010" AutoWeek
1/20/05 Astris Energi to Unveil New E7-Powered Golf Car at Vancouver Investment Conference
1/20/05 Akzo Nobel Successful Start-Up Pilot Hydrogen Power Plant azom.com
1/20/05 Supplier: Future is hydrogen-based Metaldyne exec wants 80% of cars sold in U.S. to use the fuel by 2020. Detroit News
1/19/05 Infectech, Inc. Signs Deal With Gannon University to Build Hydrogen Bioreactor for Affordable Alternative Energy Source "to develop a bioreactor which utilizes Infectech's patented bacterial culturing methods in order to produce hydrogen inexpensively"
1/19/05 Metaldyne chief calls for hydrogen-powered cars, gas tax Crain's Detroit Business
1/19/05 Hybrid, fuel cells upstage old-school fuel in Detroit CBS MarketWatch
1/19/05 Reading General Motors and Toyota’s Lips in Fuel Cell Race While Toyota distances itself from a fuel cell commercialization timetable, GM is sticking to its 2010 target ABI Research via EV World
1/19/05 Alternative Energy Cos Go Mainstream Dow Jones
1/2005 Hydrogen Safety Report NHA
1/19/05 Report on "Hydrogen Fueling Incident" at Ballard last August Fuel Cell Summit
1/19/05 Vegas may become hydrogen-fueled vehicle testing ground "City Council is due to consider a contract Wednesday to lease two prototype Honda FCX hydrogen fuel cell cars, at a total cost of $14,400" KRNV
1/19/05 Distributed Energy Systems Ends 2004 With Strong Fourth Quarter Revenues and Solid Backlog; Summarizes Progress on Business Development
1/19/05 UCD researchers brief US Senate on future of hydrogen economy The California Aggie
1/19/05 Hosokawa Micron Group Firm Develops Composite Material For SOFCs "more than doubles electricity generating performance. SOFCs made with the new material can generate 0.8 watts per square centimeter, compared with the standard 0.3 watts." Nikkei
1/18/05 Hydrogenics to Supply 10kW Fuel Cell Power Module and Test Equipment to Japan Automobile Research Institute
1/18/05 Astris Energi Delivers First E8 Fuel Cell Generator to Alternate Energy Astris
1/18/05 AEC Takes Delivery of First E8 Fuel Cell Generator From Astris Energi AEC
1/18/05 New way of making fuel cells using microfabrication lowers costs PhysOrg
1/18/05 Long-life batteries and organic technology are set to revolutionise mobile computing Computer Weekly
1/18/05 Hydrogenics Announces Changes to Board of Directors Upon Acquisition of Stuart Energy "Effective immediately, the Hydrogenics Board of Directors has accepted the resignations of Boyd Taylor, Joseph Cargnelli and Carolyn Hansson. Pursuant to the acquisition agreement, these board seats have been filled by three Stuart Energy nominees - Dr. Hugo Vandenborre, Peter C. Johnson, and Andrew T.B. Stuart."
1/18/05 Successful first year for CUTE fuel cell buses Cordis
1/18/05 Nanosys and Sharp to Collaborate on Nanotechnology-Enabled Fuel Cells " to help develop high performance fuel cells for use in portable consumer electronics such as laptop computers, cell phones and cameras"
1/18/05 General Motors and Weekly Reader Drive Students to Explore Fuel Cell Technology New Curriculum Distributed to millions of students nationwide
1/18/05 UK's First Fuel Cell Powered Home. Green Building Press
1/18/05 SatCon Announces Certification from United States Defense Supply Center to Produce Space Level Products Company joins an elite group of only 13 hybrid manufacturers qualified to produce space level products
1/18/05 QuestAir Announces Fiscal 2004 Year End Conference Call Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at 8:00 a.m. PST
1/18/05 Hydrogen fuel not just hot air GM's Larry Burns The Australian
1/18/05 FuelCell Energy Announces Exercise of Over-Allotment Option Of Convertible Preferred Stock
1/18/05 Plug Power to Install GenSite™ Hydrogen Generators Under Recently Awarded NYSERDA Programs
1/18/05 Seikoh Giken To Manufacture Fuel Cell Separators "Working with a chemical company in Shizuoka Prefecture, Seikoh Giken has developed a way to manufacture high-performance separators for as little as one-tenth the normal cost." Nikkei
1/18/05 Island sand could power vehicles "He believes his firm will be in full commercial production turning silicon to hydrogen to be used to power cars." BBC [Sounds like alchemy.]
1/18/05 UK, China unite in hi-tech research "Under the memorandum, BP will provide experience for the development of hydrogen energy and fuel cell-powered vehicles to China." People's Daily Online
1/17/05 Plug Power Earnings Call scheduled for Wed, Feb 23
1/14/05 Are Hydrogen Cars Ready for Primetime? 35:10 National Public Radio
1/17/05 Voller Energy Group announces intention to float on AIM with john Brown as non-executive Chairman Voller
1/17/05 Japan, U.S., Others To Study Hydrogen Production In Nuke Reactor "The governments of participating countries will sign, possibly by the end of January, an agreement on the study as part of a broader project to develop an advanced nuclear reactor." Nikkei
1/17/05 UK's Voller seeks IPO to fund fuel cell production "to finance further production of its portable generators . . . hopes to start shipping its environmentally-friendly generators to Speedy Hire within six months" SABC News
1/17/05 Company seeks £10m to build new source of portable power "The current generation of fuel cells use metal hydrides as a source of hydrogen but they are expensive. Voller is working on a range of cells using cheaper propane or butane gas as a source of hydrogen." Guardian
1/17/05 Scientists Make Chargers Wearable "infrared material that could be painted on to a surface (like clothes) and turn solar power into electrical energy" techtree.com
1/17/05 Hydrogen fuelled vehicle in 2 months "by IOC. Stating this at the Petrotech-2005 conference on Sunday, Petroleum Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to test drive the vehicle to signify the importance of using alternative fuel for transport" Indian Express
1/15/04 As hybrid cars move ahead, more energy efficient cars fall behind AP
1/15/04 RV1 emission-free bus trial "a great success" London SE1
1/15/05 Hybrids and hydrogen rule GM Sequel moves fuel cells ahead Ford fields a slick diesel-electric Toronto Star
1/14/05 Company to continue hydrogen fuel project Proton Energy Systems Record-Journal, CT
1/14/05 Hydrogen Cars Are Almost Here, But... BusinessWeek
1/14/05 Presentation by Medis Technologies CEO Robert Lifton at Seventh Annual Needham Growth Conference
1/12/05 Presentation by MTI MicroFuel Cells CEO William Acker at Seventh Annual Needham Growth Conference
1/14/05 Ontario to boost fuel cell industry Ottawa Business Journal
1/14/05 SatCon Issues Statement Regarding 2004 Year-End Results "independent auditors maintained their "going concern" opinion in the most recently filed Form 10K"
1/14/05 FuelCell Energy Files Annual Report on Form 10-K sec.gov
1/14/05 Burning issue "Tiny fibre-optic temperature sensors inside fuel cells could stop burnout failure and allow designers to improve power efficiency, according to their US inventors." e4engineering
1/14/05 Green hydrogen buses are a 'hit' "very popular with passengers" BBC News
1/12/05 E-Vision closes 6 million euro investment deal
1/14/05 Ontario races to top of innovation economy New Fuel Cell Innovation Program To Spur Good Jobs, Foster Healthier Communities Ministry of Economic Development and Trade
1/14/05 Ontario set to boost fuel cell development Initial investment to be $3 million a year, source says Minister expected to announce Toronto Star
1/14/05 Toyota May License Hybrid System to More Carmakers Bloomberg
1/14/05 FUELCELL ENERGY INC Files SEC form 8-K/A, Results of Operations "The purpose of this filing is to update the presentation of discontinued operations of FuelCell Energy, Inc. (the “Company”) in its consolidated statements of operations for the three months and fiscal year ended October 31, 2004. There have been no adjustments to total net loss or net loss per share for these periods." sec.gov
1/14/05 BP Cooperates JTC to Build Second Hydrogen Refuelling Station "The MOU marks BP's second hydrogen refuelling station in Singapore." Chemie.de, Germany
1/13/05 ATI Allegheny Ludlum Receives Fuel Cell Material Development Contract "aimed at creating critical interconnect materials for solid oxide fuel cells"
1/13/05 Proton Receives University of Nevada, Las Vegas Research Foundation Phase II Contract Award for Hydrogen Filling Station
1/13/05 MEDC, auto execs focus on fuel cells Granholm says new technology is crucial Detroit Free Press
1/13/05 Michigan can help with fuel-cell revolution, auto execs say Booth Newspapers via MLive.com
1/13/05 GM: Hydrogen fuel cells clearly industry's driving force Automaker faces cost factor and some PR hurdles Lansing State Journal
1/13/05 BMW H2R concept Photo Detroit Free Press
1/13/05 Nanomix Receives Additional U.S. Patent in Alternative Energy Storage Hydrogen Storage for Vehicle and Fuel Cell Power
1/13/05 DaimlerChrysler and Ford Invest CDN $55 Million in Ballard Power Systems see H2FC Update
1/13/05 Material promises cheaper water treatment "Bac2 Electrode Materials . . . produces conductive salts in place during the polymerisation reaction, making it more conductive than other plastics" Ferret
1/12/05 More Details on GM’s Sequel H2 Vehicle Green Car Congress
1/12/05 Medis: Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities "On January 10, 2005, we sold in a private placement to an accredited investor 50,000 shares of our common stock for proceeds of $700,000. [$14/share]" sec.gov
1/12/05 Firm to oversee hydrogen-power buses for the city Yale Daily News
1/12/05 Toyota chief sees future for hybrids after fuel cell vehicles go on sale just-auto.com
1/12/05 Report: Hydrogen Policy in the U.S. Not Enough to Prevent Collision Course with China and India Over Use of the World's Oil INFORM
1/12/05 Fuel cell maker gets management tuneup Sacramento Bee
1/12/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. and TOTO Ltd. Sign Memorandum of Understanding for Development of a 2-3 kW Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System
1/11/05 Electronic Products Magazine Recognizes Maxwell Technologies' Backup-Power Modules With 'Product of the Year' Award POWERCACHE® Products Feature NEBS-Compliant Design and Construction, Provide Maintenance-Free, Space-Saving Alternative to Batteries for Short-Term 'Bridge' Power
1/11/05 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Announces Delivery of Hydrogen Storage Systems to Ford Motor Company
1/11/05 Honda President and CEO Takeo Fukui Announces New Safety and Environmental Initiatives "introduction of a fuel cell vehicle to an individual customer"
1/11/05 COMMENT: GM faces a long road to its hydrogen future Datamonitor Commentwire via just-auto.com
1/11/05 A Briefing on US Hydrogen Policy at the NPC on Jan. 12 INFORM
1/11/05 Hydrogenics initiated with "underperform" "12-month target price is set to $3.25" newratings.com
1/11/05 Ener1 to Acquire Giner Electrochemical's Fuel Cell Business Signs Letters of Intent with Giner, Inc. and General Motors Corp. for Purchase of Their Interests
1/10/05 Photos: Fill 'er up with hydrogen CNET
1/9/05 GM launches latest stage of its hydrogen 'moonshot' Sequel concept is a five-seat SUV with a 300-mile range Detroit News
1/10/05 Starcraft Sets Date for Special Meeting of Shareholders to Vote on Previously Announced Merger With Quantum
1/10/05 Volume fuel cell cars at least 25 years away, Toyota says "Even General Motors, which had been pushing for fuel cell vehicles by decade end, seems to be backing off from its goal of mass production of fuel cell vehicles by 2010. GM just aims to have a fuel cell powertrain designed and validated by 2010." Automotive News
1/10/05 Next-Generation Fuel Cell System Propels GM's Sequel
1/10/05 ITM fuel cells may be force for the future Daily Mail
1/9/05 A New Energy silicon valley players are on the hunt for breakthroughs in alternative-power technology -- and venture capitalists are taking notice San Jose Mercury News
1/10/05 GM's fuel-cell cars still face obstacles Cost too high, no refueling sites Chicago Tribune
1/4/05 Fuel cell executive to lead national laboratory's energy programs PNNL
1/10/05 Micro Fuel Cells: A Coming-Out Party in 2005 Portable products will be the first to use this highly efficient energy source of the future Design News
1/10/04 Medis Technologies Announces Public Demonstrations of Commercial Power Pack Products and Upcoming Presentations at Several Conferences
1/9/05 GM: Sequel fuel cell vehicle not ready for mass production "GM officials said they have broken through the industry standard cost of $500 per kilowatt generated by a fuel cell power module. But they still are not at the $50 goal." Automotive News
1/9/05 Orlando to get 8 hydrogen buses "V-10-powered Ford E-450 shuttle buses" Orlando Sentinel
1/9/05 Automakers Put Hydrogen Power On the Fast Track "for all the exotic gizmos on the Sequel, an experimental hydrogen-powered car to be shown today by General Motors Corp., the biggest breakthrough is that it is designed to drive as far and accelerate as quickly as the cars in most driveways" The Washington Post
1/9/05 Is There A Fuel Cell In Your Future? "We won't know for at least another five to ten years whether General Motors' Larry Burns is a visionary who is leading GM and the automotive world to a new millennium or just doing a good public relations job for a doomed mission." GM Sequel Forbes
1/9/05 2005 Detroit: GM says Sequel concept takes fuel cells to the next stage "The AUTOnomy and Hy-wire showcased advanced technology, but they were one-off, futuristic concepts that were never meant for production. Though on the same platform, the Sequel is closer to a realistic production model. But it is not an affordable car. . . With a 25 percent more powerful fuel cell stack, GM's next-generation fuel cell power system helps the Sequel achieve a 300-mile range." Photo AutoWeek
1/9/05 George Jetson, Meet the Sequel New York Times
1/9/05 Staying Charged Up Portable batteries are the power lines of our gadget-filled digital nation. Medis Cox News
1/9/05 Iceland's hydrogen buses zip to oil-free economy Reuters
1/8/05 Sekisui House To Sell Fuel-Cell-Equipped Homes In March "the charge of leasing the fuel cell -- 1 million yen for 10 years -- will be included in the price of the home" Nikkei
1/7/05 GM, Sandia in $10M fuel cell partnership American City Business Journals
1/8/05 Peugeot's Quark fuel-cell four-wheeler for the road Gizmo, Australia
1/8/05 Isle startup displays worldwide potential Hoku Scientific Honolulu Star-Bulletin
1/7/05 New honeycomb type SOFC for quick start operation Fuel Cell Today
1/5/05 UL and CSA Develop Standard for Micro Fuel Cells PETech
1/6/05 Gadgets can make you power-hungry NY Times via International Herald Tribune
1/6/05 Volkswagen Chairman: Diesel is the Best Hope for the Future "While admitting hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are technologically fascinating, 'they are not a real solution or a viable one,' Pischetsrieder said." American International Automobile Dealers - AIADA
1/6/05 Fueling a $430m dream With investors like Robert Lifton and Israel Aircraft Industries, fuel cell developer Medis Technologies has every reason to succeed Globes (Israel)
1/6/05 Deka Batteries Teams with Nuvera Fuel Cells to Develop Advanced Power Options for Industrial Trucks Nuvera
1/6/05 GM Joins with U.S. National Lab to Advance Hydrogen Storage Partnership with Sandia National Laboratories focuses on solid-state storage (metal hydrides) GM
1/6/05 MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY INC filed a form S-3 on Jan 6 2005 for shares recently sold to Fletcher sec.gov
1/6/05 First Hybrid Fuel Cell Vehicle Goes on Sale from ZAP Now on Display at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas "ZAP's fuel cell technology partner, Anuvu Incorporated, converted the Nissan Frontier 4-door pick-up truck" ZAP
1/6/05 Companies Scramble To Begin Mass Production Of Ionic Liquds "electrolyte substances in fuel cells and the capacitors storing electric charge in hybrid vehicles " Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., Stella Chemifa Corp., Koei Chemical Co. Nikkei
1/6/05 Hydrogenics Corporation Succeeds In Bid for Stuart Energy Systems Corporation
1/5/05 BMW stresses hydrogen as performance fuel Detroit News
1/2005 Warning: The Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant Than It Appears Nine myths and misconceptions, and the truth about why hydrogen-powered cars aren’t just around the corner Popular Science
1/5/05 Hyundai Unveils First Hydrogen-Powered Tucson SUV at Greater Los Angeles Auto Show Tucson Fuel Cell Vehicle Will Initiate Fleet Testing Program
1/5/05 Acker to Discuss MTI Progress at Needham & Company's Seventh Annual Growth Conference MTI
1/5/05 Platinum galore: remote island of Unst gets ready for a boom in precious metals The Independent
1/5/05 Indian scientists develop hydrogen motorcycle Sun Network
1/5/05 Nested metal-organic frameworks as possible novel hydrogen storage materials Chemie.de
1/5/05 Distributed Energy Systems Corp. Announces Its Northern Power Systems Unit Is Awarded a Multi-Million Dollar NYPA Master Implementation Contract Recognizes Distributed Generation Systems Engineering Excellence, Expertise
1/4/05 A powerhouse in the making Hydrogen proving to be a versatile power source. Hydrogenics. Mississauga News
1/5/05 SHEC Labs Applies for New Patent for Solar Receiver
1/5/05 Making New Energy Sources An Easier 'Cell' Polyfuel MIT Technology Review
1/2005 Funding to Promote Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicle Development New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
1/4/05 U.S. announces breakthrough in fuel cell production UPI
1/3/05 Major Milestone Met in Government-Industry Drive to Develop Affordable Fuel Cell "Delphi Corp., a partner in the [DOE]’s advanced fuel cell development program, has reported that it has exceeded the power density level required to meet the government’s $400 per kilowatt cost goal for fuel cells. . . test cells produced an initial power density of 575 milliwatts per square centimeter at 0.7 volts nominal in full-size stacks" US DOE
1/4/05 2005 NAIAS: Fuel Cell Technology Leader Ballard Power Systems at Detroit Auto Show
1/4/05 DaimlerChrysler Hits 100 Fuel Cell Vehicles Goal DaimlerChrysler
1/4/05 NANO-PROPRIETARY PARTNERS WITH KRI ON FUEL CELLS Small Times
1/2/05 Military bases test fuel-cell technology "Fuel cells, each with a capacity to produce 5 kilowatts of power, were installed at the bases earlier this month by a Hawaii company, Energy Industries LLC. The estimated $150,000 system will produce power, and heat released as a result will be used to heat water." Pacific Business News
1/4/05 Arnold's Hydrogen Hummer Forbes
1/3/05 Alcohol fuel cell goes micro "The biofuel cell showed an electrical potential of 0.34 volts and current density of 53 microamps per square centimeter" TRN via Always On
1/3/05 Medis Files SEC form 8-K, Sale of Equity "On December 27, 2004, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, our President and a corporation owned by them exercised outstanding warrants to acquire an aggregate of 312,397 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $5.00 per share and an aggregate of 50,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $5.75, for aggregate proceeds of approximately $1,850,000. On December 31, 2004, we sold in a private placement to an accredited investor 220,000 shares of our common stock for proceeds of approximately $3,080,000 [$14.00/share]." sec.gov
1/3/05 Medis: Chairman's Letter to Shareholders
1/3/05 IEEE Spectrum Predicts Winning and Losing Technologies for 2005 "Ultracapacitors are superior to batteries in many respects and are expected to be used increasingly to improve the performance of hybrid-electric and fuel-cell cars."
1/1/05 Manhattan Scientifics: Letter to Shareholders from CEO Marvin Maslow
1/1/05 Toagosei Develops Low-Cost Electrolytic Membrane For Fuel Cells ". . . for direct-methanol fuel cells. . . Made from polyolefin with a multiporous structure, the new electrolytic membrane costs just one-half to one-third as much as membranes made from fluororesin materials." Nikkei
1/1/05 Retiring president wants to leave fuel cell legacy "Even as John plans to leave the school, he's working to help get Kettering's new Fuel Cell Systems & Powertrain Integration Center on its feet. . ." Flint Journal