June 2005

6/30/05 Scientists conduct fuel cell reaction study on gold-platinum electrocatalysts Platinum Today (Johnson Matthey)
6/30/05 Quantum Reports Fiscal 2005 Fourth Quarter and Year End Results Record Fiscal 2005 Contract Revenues for Hydrogen-based Development Programs "consolidated net loss of $4.4 million"
6/30/05 Research and Markets: Fuel Cell Components Market Forecast to reach $100 billion in 2013 Price of report: EUR€ 2,996.00
6/30/05 Commentary: Climate changing for alternative fuel stocks "[I]nvesting in alternative energy companies has been a losing proposition for a decade, but that is about to change." FCEL, ENER, DESC MarketWatch
6/30/05 BTU International Joins Rolls Royce in Celebrating the World's First Automated Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Production Line BTU chosen by Rolls Royce as primary contractor for turnkey pilot production line BTU International, Inc.
6/30/05 H2FC Table of Short Positions as of 6/15/05
6/30/05 Coverage initiated on Plug Power by Pacific Growth Equities "equal weight"
6/30/05 Coverage initiated on Hydrogenics by Pacific Growth Equities "equal weight"
6/30/05 MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY INC Files SEC form 8-K "On June 28, 2005, Mr. Dale W. Church, President of Government Systems of Mechanical Technology Incorporated ("MTI" or the "Company") requested that his employment contract, which is due to expire on June 30, 2005, not be extended so that he may pursue other interests. Mr. Church will continue as a member of the Board of Directors of both MTI and MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc . . ." sec.gov
6/30/05 Hitachi Firms Develop Metal Separator For Fuel Cells "Because methanol is so highly corrosive, the separator for these types of fuel cells is typically made using graphite . . . the two Hitachi firms have designed a material that can last for 3,000 hours, which is five times as long as other metal materials and long enough for practical use in a direct-methanol fuel cell . . . hope to have commercial products ready in two years" Nikkei
6/29/05 Honda Leases First Fuel-Cell Vehicle to Individuals "Engineers at Honda and other carmakers estimate fuel-cell vehicles now cost about $1 million to build . . . the automaker [aims] to cut the cost to about $27,500 by 2020" Bloomberg
6/29/05 Volkswagen, Sunlight and Hydrogen "The German state of Lower Saxony’s first filling station for solar energy is about to commence operation at the Volkswagen Technology Center Isenbüttel" Auto Spectator
6/29/05 Honda Delivers FCX Fuel Cell Vehicle to World's First Individual Customer American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
6/29/05 Fuel cell cars face bumpy road despite $60 oil "the dream will only come true if the companies driving the change can make fuel cells better and cheaper, while securing the billions of dollars needed to finance comprehensive hydrogen infrastructure at a time of stretched public coffers" Reuters
6/29/05 GM Survey Finds Americans Support Energy Independence, Hydrogen-Based Economy GM
6/29/05 MTI looks to clear hurdles Fuel-cell maker tells investors it's still ahead of rivals despite missing milestones "the company said it has struggled in developing cells with enough power at the small sizes needed for the commercial market . . . needs more time to figure out just which piece of the $15 billion small-electronics power-supply market it can break into first . . ." Times Union
6/29/05 Porvair pleased with results The Business EDP 24
6/28/05 Department of Energy grants fund work on new hydrogen fuel technologies at UCSC
6/29/05 World's First Fuel Cell Powered Robot I4U
6/29/05 Quantum Schedules Fiscal 2005 Fourth Quarter and Year End Financial Results Conference Call Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time
6/29/05 Southern Fuel Cell Coalition Under Contract with FTA Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE)
6/28/05 President Putin promises support for national hydrogen power engineering Russian Information Agency Novosti
6/28/05 California family giving long-term test drive to hydrogen car Honda FCX AP
6/28/05 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -- ETH Zurich's Hydrogen Powered Vehicle PAC Car Sets New World Record for Fuel Efficiency at the Shell Eco-Marathon "PAC Car operates on a hydrogen-powered fuel cell. Using the lower heating values of hydrogen and gasoline as a conversion basis, this world record now stands at 5385 kilometres per litre of gasoline." swissnex PHOTO
6/27/05 Power And Energy Establishes Branch Office In Japan "hydrogen purifier and separator product lines"
6/28/05 Mechanical Technology shareholders told development challenges will be overcome bizjournals.com
6/28/05 MTI Discusses Company Progress at Shareholder Meeting
6/28/05 American Honda to Announce Major Developments in Its Fuel Cell Program and FCX Fuel Cell Vehicle
6/28/05 F-Cell cars may go on sale here in 10 years TODAYonline (Singapore)
6/28/05 Quantum Added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 Indexes
6/28/05 MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY INC Files SEC form 8-K, Regulation FD Disclosure "On June 24, 2005, Fletcher notified MTI (the "Company") of Fletcher's election to exercise in full its right to purchase from the Company certain shares of common stock of Plug Power Inc. ("Plug Power"). As a result of this election, Fletcher will purchase 1,799,791 shares of Plug Power common stock from the Company at a price of $0.7226 per share, with proceeds to the Company of approximately $1.3 million. . ." sec.gov
6/28/05 DaimlerChrysler and Southern California Edison Use a Different Kind of Energy - Fuel Cells
6/28/05 CFCL announces field trial deal with German utility EWE
6/27/05 Adsorbent materials for hydrogen storage Public University of Navarra
6/27/05 LRM Industries LLC Announces Development Contract for Hydrogen Energy Component "development contract purchase order from Hydrogenics"
6/27/05 QuestAir Technologies signs agreement with HyRadix Inc. for supply of hydrogen purification systems
6/27/05 A hot source of energy planar SOFCs Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
6/27/05 DaimlerChysler aims to sell 100,000 fuel cell powered cars per year by 2015 AFX
6/27/05 Oil over $60 on robust demand, Iran worries Reuters
6/27/05 Short interests in H2FC stocks as of 6/15/05 NASDAQ
6/25/05 Vehicle with the highest fuel efficiency: "PAC-Car" sets new world record "5134 kilometres per litre of petrol. The world-record holding PAC-Car operates on a hydrogen powered fuel cell" uniprotokolle
6/25/05 MTI delays major contract Fuel-cell maker says it, Gillette will re-examine how and where to enter hand-held market Albany Times Union
6/24/05 VIASPACE Announces Research Report by Cohen Independent Research Group
6/22/05 VIASPACE Inc. Presents Business Overview and Unveils Its New Website as Company Commences Trading on the OTC Exchange "three subsidiaries -- Arroyo Sciences, Ionfinity, and Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corporation (DMFCC)"
6/21/05 Global Wide Publication Ltd. complete merger "effective June 22, 2005 it will complete the previously announced merger (the "Merger") with ViaSpace Technologies"
6/24/05 DOE to Establish National Center for Hydrogen Technology Center at University of North Dakota to Drive U.S. Conversion to Hydrogen Economy DOE
6/24/05 Citizens Against Government Waste Presents: Worst of the Energy Bill "The Senate bill allocates $3.8 billion over five years toward development of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and has set a pipe-dream goal of 100,000 such cars on the road by 2010 and 2.5 million by 2020."
6/24/05 MTI hopeful on meeting Army contract delivery deadline "contract date of Sept. 30" BizJournals
6/24/05 Group concocts fuel cell notebook guideline "While fuel cells for consumer electronic devices may come in the next few years, it may not be until the turn of the decade when they come out for notebooks, and then they may only complement, rather than replace, batteries." CNET
6/23/05 More than 600 fuel cell vehicles by the end of 2005 energieportal24
6/24/05 Regulatory Announcement: ITM Power "will be announcing its final results for the year ended 30 April 2005 on Friday 1 July 2005"
6/24/05 Getting Juiced At Energy ENER BusinessWeek Online
6/24/05 The Ballard Power Ballet "This deal is a good news/bad news situation for Ballard. . . " Motley Fool
6/24/05 Ballard, Ford and DaimlerChrysler agree to fuel cell deal AP
6/24/05 Heading to a hydrogen economy Researchers say fossil fuels could be bridge to future Houston Chronicle
6/24/05 Officials to unveil hydrogen plant today Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, Hydrogenics Citrus County Chronicle
6/24/05 Honda Aims to Eliminate Price Premium on Fuel Cell Cars by 2020 "Honda wants to cut the price of its fuel cell vehicles to between 3 million yen ($27,500) and 4 million yen, about the same as its Accord sedan . . . Honda's FCX fuel-cell vehicle costs more than 10 million yen now, though the company wouldn't give an exact price." Bloomberg.com
6/24/05 Study shows advantages of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles People's Daily (China)
6/23/05 PA Energy Development Authority Awards $10 Million For Clean Energy Projects "Franklin Fuel Cells Inc. will receive $460,000 to research ongoing development of solid oxide fuel cell technology."
6/23/05 Hydrogen cars will save lives Cleaner vehicles would be better for people, as well as the planet. Nature
6/21/05 Merrill Lynch, World Resources Institute Analyze Climate Change Investment Opportunities "breaks new ground by issuing stock recommendations" SocialFunds.com
6/23/05 Fuel Cell Guidelines for Mobile PCs Now Available Document Will Serve as a Reference for Fuel Cell Developers Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Working Group (Intel)
6/23/05 MTI Micro Update On Milestones for 2005 "MTI Micro has decided not to pursue an OEM agreement within this calendar year but remains committed to leading the adoption of Mobion™ technology for consumer market products."
6/23/05 Ballard Signs Agreement to Sell German Subsidiary to DaimlerChrysler and Ford Transaction Reduces Cash Consumption and Paves the Way for Next Generation Automotive Program Development Funding
6/23/05 Army prepares to test hydrogen fuel cells "The overall goal of the Army's exploration of FCVs is to cut mpg ratings by 75 percent. If a successful FCV platform is accepted by the Army, a significant part of its 246,000 non-tactical vehicle fleet could be replaced, resulting in major fuel savings." Aftermarket Business
6/23/05 Florida Hydrogen Initiative Seeks Proposals for Hydrogen Energy Projects
6/23/05 FuelCell Energy 'Ultra-Clean' Power Plant Selected to Improve Security, Reliability and Power Flexibility for Critical Federal Training Facility First DFC300MA(TM) Power Plant Sale Through LOGANEnergy to Assure U.S. Government Training Center in California Maintains Essential Power for Continued Readiness
6/22/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. [FCEL] CEO Rings The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell PHOTOS NASDAQ
June 2005 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Safety NHA
6/22/05 Acumentrics SOFC System Operated On Diesel Reformate "Scientists and engineers at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) have tested and successfully demonstrated, for the first time, the technical feasibility of directly connecting a catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) diesel reformer to an Acumentrics 5 kilowatt SOFC electric generating system."
6/22/05 Green Tinge Is Attracting Seed Money to Ventures NY Times
6/23/05 CFC goes the hard cell in green power generation The Australian
6/22/05 Bush Buzzwords Work for the Nimble "James J. Cramer can't help noticing that there's a Pavlovian certainty to what happens in certain stocks when President Bush tosses out buzzwords like 'nuclear' (or 'nucular'), 'hydrogen fuel cell,' and so on. . ." TheStreet.com
6/22/05 Grant aids RPI fuel-cell push Doctoral program aims to speed concepts to the marketplace Albany Times Union
6/22/05 Introducing the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technology Fuel Cell Today
6/22/05 Neah Power Systems Named as a 2005 Venture All Stars™ Top 25 Emerging Growth Company
6/22/05 $3.5 Million in Federal Funding Included for Neah Power Systems' Porous Silicon-Based Direct Methanol Fuel Cell in the House-Passed Fiscal Year 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill
6/22/05 Zongshen PEM Power Systems announces CFO and Investor Relations appointments
6/22/05 Voller Energy Group Plc: First Portable Fuel Cell System to Achieve CE Certification
6/21/05 Columbia moving forward to become hydro fuel cell research hub WIS-TV Columbia
6/21/05 SatCon Technology to Report on Business Focus
6/21/05 National Science Foundation Awards Rensselaer First-of-Its-Kind Grant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, as part of its continued expansion of energy research, today announced a $4.8 million novel interdisciplinary program to train doctoral students in fuel cell science and engineering.
6/21/05 Medis Technologies Releases Letter to Shareholders Outlining Enterprise Market Strategy
6/21/05 First Albany dumps MTI stock "First Albany said last year that MTI was acting as a drag on earnings, and so would begin divesting itself of the company once an agreement expired in December that prevented it from selling any shares. . . " Albany Times Union
6/21/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. [FCEL] CEO to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005 at 9:30 a.m. EDT
6/20/05 NextCell Advanced Electrolyte Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cells — Supplier Data by NexTech Materials Azom.com
6/20/05 Denver Regional Transportation District Selects Cobasys for its Hybrid Fleet Application
6/20/05 A Wireless World, Bound To Sockets Consumers Crave Better Batteries for Gadgets Washington Post
6/20/05 Opinion: Create the hydrogen economy right here " In the not-too-distant future, the carbon-based energy model will fall away and be replaced by a hydrogen-based model. The only questions are: When? How? Where? Who?" Crains Detroit
6/20/05 Milestone Week for Fuel Cell Generator "Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (CFCL; ASX code CFU) is pleased to announce that its fuel cell powered micro-CHP unit has been certified by the Victorian Office of Gas Safety under Australian Standards."
6/19/05 State to test hydrogen cars, stations The demonstration project is designed to show the future value of the technology. Orlando Sentinel
6/19/05 Hybrids may propel fuel cells Production may put area on cutting edge Louisville Courier-Journal
6/19/05 Morgan engages eco-overdrive "Morgan, the classic car maker, is to build what it claims will be the world’s first environmentally friendly sports car, intended to produce zero emissions while matching petrol-driven rivals for speed and handling. The vehicle, powered by a fuel cell which converts hydrogen into electricity, would produce nothing but water vapour and would be ultra-quiet." The Sunday Times
6/18/05 Toyota, GM plan for hydrogen "There are discussions within Toyota about whether a high-priced, low-volume hydrogen car aimed at the super-rich -- dubbed the ''Ferrari of hydrogen'' internally -- could be launched earlier than 2015. But Katsuhiko Hirose, project general manager for fuel cell development, said he believed the lack of ease in refueling blocked such a launch, and it was better to concentrate on the $50,000 goal." Financial Times
6/17/05 FuelCell Energy: Registration Statement for 1,900,000 New Shares of Common Stock Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share: $8.63 sec.gov
6/17/05 Portable fuel cell from Voller Energy... is expensive. 200W, $7,600 Engadget
6/17/05 Oil Prices Hit New High Above $58 Mark Oil Prices Hit a New High Above $58 a Barrel on Supply Fears, Rising Demand AP
6/17/05 Toyota's Hydrogen Prediction Motley Fool
6/17/05 Fuel-cell deal a spark for Plug Power stock Good news comes from Florida purchase of units, Schumer bill Albany Times Union
6/17/05 Toyota, Honda fuel-cell vehicles given type certification in Japan Kyodo
6/17/05 Nano Cluster Devices Unveils Hydrogen Sensor Prototype
6/17/05 Honda FCX Becomes Japan's First Fuel Cell Vehicle to Receive Motor Vehicle Type Certification from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport IBD
6/16/05 Cemtrex to Develop PEM Fuel Cells in Joint Venture with Ducon Technologies Inc.
6/16/05 Toyota aims to cut fuel-cell car price 95% by 2015 MarketWatch
6/16/05 Street Chatter: Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Ballard Power Systems "The feet on the Street are running from BLDP. Of nine analysts who express a preference, only one would advise you to buy it, and the stock appeared on Thomson First Call's list of lowest-rated stocks on June 7 and June 14" Schaeffers Research
6/16/05 Senate panel OKs $14B energy tax bill Includes credits for nuclear, clean coal, appliances "The bill would extend for 10 years the so-called section 45 tax credits for facilities that produce electricity from such renewable sources as wind and biomass. Facilities that use fuel cells to meet their energy needs would also be eligible for the credit for the first time." MarketWatch
6/16/05 Hydrogen prototype A-Class is a total gas USA Today
6/15/05 EDTA Capital Hill Briefing: Transforming Transportation; Opportunities in Energy Policy and Mobility Technology The Auto Channel
6/16/05 Plug Power Announces Sale of 12 GenCore(R) Fuel Cell Systems to Florida Department of Environmental Protection First commercial purchase from state agency represents largest single GenCore order to date
6/16/05 Hebrides could pioneer energy research hydrogen from wind farm electricity The Scotsman
6/16/05 'In 50 years' time no one will be using oil any more' Gwladys Fouché visits pioneers of wind and hydrogen power The Guardian
6/16/05 Jamie Bakos, Manager of Environmental Services of Giffels/Ingenium joins SHECs Board of Directors
6/15/05 Researchers study waste as electricity "Intestinal bacteria feasting on wastewater could power homes one day . . ." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
6/14/05 Startup SiGNa Chemistry Solves Alkali Metals Volatility To Revolutionize Modern Industrial Processes Sets sights on $10 billion micro fuel cell market, pharmaceuticals, and petrochemicals
6/15/05 Kettering opens fuel cell center doors New research facility brings attention WJRT-TV
6/15/05 Can fuel cells rush in where VRLA batteries fear to tread? Eoin Connolly, Director of Product Marketing for Plug Power Telephony Online
6/15/05 Energy Independence Through Hydrogen "We believe fuel cell stocks are best bought low and then sold into the strength provided by any major media buzz, and we recommend you set stops and respect them." Kenneth Reid, Spear's Security Industry Analyst. HYGS, QTWW Forbes
6/15/05 Starwood to install fuel cells at Sheraton San Diego FCEL San Diego Daily Transcript
6/15/05 United Solar Ovonic Announces Selection of Site for its Second State-of-the-Art Solar Panel Manufacturing Facility
6/15/05 White House criticizes cost of Senate energy bill "the White House criticized its $10.9 billion pricetag and also blasted attempts by Democrats to boost renewable energy use and mandate cuts in oil imports" Reuters
6/15/05 $6,000 fuel cell motorcycle planned by 2006 Intelligent Energy MSNBC
6/15/05 Dynetek Industries Ltd. Appoints New Director
6/15/05 Alternative Energy: Time To Invest? PS Wilderhill Clear Energy ETF ETFZone.com
6/15/05 The Power of Fuel Cells PHOTO Hotel interactive
6/14/05 Nuclear, Renewables Spending Up in Senate Budget Bill "While the subcommittee raised funding for renewable energy, hydrogen technology and nuclear power above the President's request, the budget for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada was slashed." Environment News Service
6/14/05 Ministers to spend £40m on plan to store waste gas under sea The Scotsman
6/14/05 APC debuts fuel cell backup power The fuel cell system runs on bottled hydrogen gas Computerworld
6/14/05 H2FC Stocks Mostly Up Today QTWW reportedly mentioned on CNBC
6/14/05 DTI outlines £40m carbon abatement plan and £15m hydrogen and fuel cell development programme Auto Industry, UK
6/14/05 PPL Completes Fuel Cell Installation at Starwood's Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers; First of Its Kind for Manhattan PPL Corporation
6/14/05 Servatron to build Relion's I-1000™ Fuel Cell EMSNow
6/14/05 All Systems Are Go... Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers Becomes First Hotel in Manhattan to Use Environmentally-Friendly High Temperature Fuel Cell Technology Brand's Flagship is Third Sheraton Hotel To Embrace Clean, Reliable Fuel Cell Technology Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
6/14/05 FuelCell Energy Dedicates Manhattan's First High Temperature Fuel Cell at Starwood's Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
6/14/05 Millennium Cell Receives Formal Nasdaq Approval of Compliance Plan Investors Agree to Participate in Compliance Plan expects no change to its listing status and no interruption in the trading of its stock on the SmallCap Market
6/13/05 Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition To Unveil Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Initiatives to Capture Future $46 Billion Industry Initiatives Introduced at Hydrogen Generation Symposium on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at 6:00 PM in Waltham, Massachusetts
6/13/05 Truck maker eyes fuel cells for idling Units would cut CO2, nitrogen oxide emissions MSNBC
6/13/05 ADVISORY/Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, Will Be First Hotel in Manhattan to Power up with Fuel Cell Technology FuelCell Energy
6/13/05 Solid (State) Progress Hydrogen-fuel storage for cars gets a materials boost - HRL Laboratories Scientific American
6/13/05 OPEN FORUM: POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Romancing the hydrogen highway "The sin is in the omissions; so much is left unsaid. What renewable energy? What water? What car?" San Francisco Chronicle
6/13/05 Hybrid Vigor As battlefield electronic equipment increases power demands, researchers are exploring fuel cell hybrids and other alternatives to conventional batteries. Protonex, MCell, MTI Micro Military Information Technology
6/13/05 Hydrogenics Supplying Fuel Cell Power Modules for American Power Conversion's New InfraStruXure'TM' with Integrated Fuel Cells System "In November 2004, Hydrogenics announced that it had received a follow-on order for 25 fuel cell power modules to be incorporated into back-up power products from one single OEM customer. Hydrogenics now reports that APC is the previously undisclosed customer for this order for 25 HyPM™ XR back-up power units - the largest commercial order for fuel cell products in Hydrogenics' history."
6/12/05 Kettering inviting public to see new fuel cell center Flint Journal
6/13/05 Honda continues work on cold start, range issues with its FC vehicles AutoWeek
6/13/05 Volvo Invests in Fuel Cell Technology to Solve Environmental Problems Linked to Idling Engines "The new company, Powercell, is owned jointly by Volvo Technology (VTEC) and Statoil. Powercell holds the patent on an improved fuel cell technology that makes it possible to produce such small and effective power units that they can be mounted in trucks and other vehicles to replace the current that is normally generated through operating the engine at idle. The fuel cell is powered by hydrogen gas that is produced from the diesel onboard. . ." Volvo
6/13/05 American Power Conversion Introduces InfraStruXure™ with Integrated Fuel Cell Technology that Offers Hours of Extended Runtime APC's Fuel Cell System Provides Hours of Power Generation for Applications with High Availability Requirements American Power Conversion
6/10/05 Hydrogen-cell truck makes X-country trip The Washington Times
6/10/05 Regulatory Announcement: ITM Power London Stock Exchange
6/10/05 'Metal-Decorated' Nanotubes Hold Promise For Fuel Cells National Institute Of Standards And Technology
6/9/05 Polyfuel Plans IPO in London "reportedly hoping to raise £12 million ($21.8 million) from the offering, which will bring its value to £40 million ($72.8 million)." Red Herring
6/9/05 QuestAir Technologies and Mitsubishi Kakoki Kaisha announce agreement to market hydrogen purification systems
6/9/05 FuelCell Energy Inc. Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
6/9/05 Protonex Increases Second Round Funding to $11 Million-Portable Fuel Cell Company Also Adds Board Members
6/9/05 Distributed Energy Systems President Highlights Progress, Opportunities of New Energy Frontiers at Annual Shareholders' Meeting
6/8/05 GM to cut 25,000 U.S. jobs Rochester-area impact unclear, but auto suppliers hopeful "It's unclear whether GM's Fuel Cell Activities Center in Honeoye Falls, with about 300 employees, would be affected." Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
6/8/05 Propane powers fuel cells CalTech PhysicsWeb
6/7/05 Hydrogen the Fuel for the 21st Century by Dennis Campbell Opinion Editorial published in The Vancouver Sun in response to Jon Hykawy’s “Why Hydrogen is Not the Super Fuel of the Future” (published May 30, 2005)
6/8/05 Mercedes-Benz uncovers smallest fuel-cell car Korea Herald
6/8/05 Hydrogen is new hope to get gas-guzzlers off the road Financial Times
6/8/05 General Physics Corporation Completes Construction of a Hydrogen Energy Station for Chevron
6/7/05 Ballard Power Systems Announces Annual General Meeting June 23, 2005, Vancouver
6/7/05 Micro Power Alliances Formed Partnerships in fuel cells and solar cells reflect heightened interest in the technology. "Fuel cell companies have broken promises and missed deadlines for years, but the partnership with Cingular could be evidence that Medis really is launching a micro fuel cell in July." Red Herring
6/7/05 H2FC Update: Medis Technologies Signs Cooperation Agreement with Major U.S. Mobile Operator H2FC Discussion
6/7/05 Rensselaer Opens New $20 Million Center for Future Energy Systems "will focus on renewable energy and energy conservation systems, with an initial emphasis on fuel cells and the hydrogen economy, smart lighting, smart displays, and emerging renewable energy systems" Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
6/7/05 N.Y. fuel-cell consortium created "Local members are MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc., Plug Power Inc., and the Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center at UAlbany's Albany NanoTech site. The other members are General Motors, and Delphi Automotive, which have fuel-cell operations in Rochester, as well as the Greater Rochester Enterprise, a regional economic development organization." The Business Review
6/7/05 Plug Power Participates With Governor Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Bruno in Dedication Ceremonies for University Research Centers in New York State
6/7/05 Major Solar Power System to Be Implemented at Timberland's California Distribution Center Footwear and Apparel Company Signs $3M Contract With Northern Power for System Design and Installation "401.8 kW photovoltaic (PV) system" DESC
6/7/05 Medis Technologies Signs Cooperation Agreement with Major U.S. Mobile Operator "for the purposes of market testing and introduction to the market of Medis' fuel cell Power Packs as a secondary power source for portable electronic devices offered by the mobile operator. This mobile operator has a customer base of over 50 million subscribers."
6/6/2005 LG, LS, GS to Compete in Rechargeable Battery Market ". . . LG Chem, Korea's No. 1 producer of rechargeable batteries, plans to roll out the portable-use fuel cell product in the latter half of the year, adding it to its previous strong product line ups of lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries. The chemicals firm plans to roll out portable fuel cells and those for notebook PCs in the second half of this year. . ." The Korea Times
6/6/2005 Transportation: Farther? Faster? Cleaner? International Herald Tribune
6/6/05 QuestAir included in PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies
6/6/05 Contango Capital raises second fund "The new fund has an initial target of $50 million. . . Contango Capital Partners I, focused on the development of hydrogen generation technologies and fuel cell products. With its second fund, Contango Capital is seeking to provide investors with a diversified portfolio of energy technologies that will accelerate the commercialization of new sources of energy and create greater efficiencies in traditional energy production" Houston Business Journal
6/6/05 MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS INC Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events "We're about to register shares underlying managements' options along with those owned by certain company vendors and consultants who have helped us over the years. . . Our recent attempt at a merger with a mid-size European technology firm failed, not on the merits, but because their management could not devote the necessary time and resources to complete the deal. . ." sec.gov
6/6/05 Dynetek Industries Ltd. named as one of Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies by PROFIT Magazine
6/6/05 FuelCell Posts Narrower 2Q Loss FuelCell Posts Narrower Second-Quarter Loss on Lower Costs, Revenue Declines 13 Percent AP
6/6/05 PolyFuel listing to advance fuel cell technology "plans to list on Aim this month, in a move to raise £12m and which is expected to value the company at £40m" Financial Times
6/6/05 FuelCell Energy Reports Second Quarter 2005 Results and Accomplishments
6/6/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for 10:00 am ET today
6/5/05 Hydrogen fuel cell future drives into the big apple "GM will be providing 13 fuel cell-powered vehicles and Shell Hydrogen LLC intends to establish New York State's first hydrogen service station in the New York City metropolitan area in 2006" Midland Reporter Telegram
6/6/05 Reva to co-develop fuel cell hydrogen cars with IOC Business Standard, India
6/5/05 Honda FCX: What a Gas! A Week in Suburbia With a Hydrogen Honda NY Times
6/3/05 MEDIS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Files SEC form 8-K, Entry into Material Agreement 2 year extension (through 2008) of contract with General Dynamics sec.gov
6/3/05 Hydrogen fuels area high-tech firm Toledo Blade
6/3/05 New hydrogen technologies in Russia Pravda
6/2/05 Ikea and Opel start joint fuel cell vehicle test in Berlin Auto Spectator
6/2/05 Volkswagen presents the latest fuel cell prototype at the World Environment Day event in San Francisco, California Auto Spectator
6/2/05 Platinum-free fuel cells by 2006 "for fuel cells running on ethanol . . . Italian manufacturer Acta said the Hypermec catalysts have already interested several large Far Eastern OEMs, and last week it announced an Asian distribution deal with a subsidiary of Japanese materials giant Sumitomo. . . The anode and cathode catalysts are selective for the specific reaction occurring at the particular electrode, so a simplified (unseparated) cell structure is possible." Electronics Weekly
6/2/05 Kansai Electric, Iwatani devise movable hydrogen filling station Kyodo via Yahoo
6/2/05 FuelCell Energy Introduces Modular Sub-Megawatt Direct FuelCell Power Plant -- DFC300MA
6/2/05 The Power Station in the Basement "Sulzer Hexis, the Swiss manufacturer of the mini-power stations, has over 100 test cells powering homes across Europe." Deutsche Welle
5/23/05 DuPont Fuel Cells Unveils New Direct Methanol Technology "DuPont Gen IV MEA technology requires significantly less catalyst loading compared with the previous generation, while still delivering approximately a 20 percent increase in power density and well over two times improvement in durability and reliability" Dupont
6/2/05 Powered by hydrogen but pricier than a Rolls / Fuel cell cars shown at U.N. conference emit only vapor San Francisco Chronicle
6/1/05 DaimlerChrysler Increases Fuel Cell Vehicle Presence in California - $88 Million Going to Work Immediately
6/1/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. Ships Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System to Belgium
6/1/05 Market Open Web Photo Gallery Medis NASDAQ
6/1/05 "Road Map" To Auto Hydrogen Fuel By 2010 The Chief Engineer
5/31/05 Recent sales of MKTY by First Albany Corp Form SC 13D/A at sec.gov
6/1/05 ECD Ovonics' Battery Subsidiary Grants Patent License to Wintonic of China
6/1/05 NanoLogix Files Hydrogen Production Provisional Patent Application Expanding Its Intellectual Property Portfolio to 32 Patents Issued and Pending in Nanotechnology and NanoBiotechnology
6/1/05 Business In The Beltway: Revving Up Fuel Cells Ballard, automakers Forbes
6/1/05 Medis Technologies CEO Robert Lifton Scheduled to Appear on CNBC Squawk Box Today
5/31/05 Medis Technologies CEO Robert Lifton's Speech for NASDAQ Opening Bell Ceremony on June 1, 2005 filed with SEC on Form 8-K
6/1/05 SHEC Labs plans Renewable Solar Hydrogen Pilot Plant "SHEC-Lab's prototype solar hydrogen generator has now operated for approximately 1,200 hours with no noticeable coking or degradation of the catalysts. . . ."
6/1/05 ACSA Announces Support for the "Hydrogen Super Highway", Saying: it Might be Able to Provide Enough Low Cost Energy to Power All of America American Computer Scientists Association [Got a spare $Trillion handy?]

May 2005

5/31/05 Nanodynamics approved for $2M in federal aid "for development of a fuel cell system for water treatment facilities that will operate through the use of methane . . . The spending bill still needs approval from the U.S. Senate and the White House" Buffalo Business First
5/31/05 Renewables, Efficiency Emphasized in Senate Energy Bill "The committee voted 21-1 on May 26 to approve the legislation, which aims to expand production of renewable energy, including nuclear power, increase energy efficiency, encourage the use of hybrid vehicles and support the development of new technologies such as clean-burning coal and hydrogen-fueled vehicles. It also calls for more oil and natural gas development on federal land. . . Reaching a compromise is not going to be easy . . . The Senate measure does not include provisions on the two most controversial issues in the House bill. [MTBE liability and ANWR]" Washington File
5/31/05 Madison firm gets $1.4 million in financing Virent Energy Systems Inc. BizJournals
5/31/05 Speech to be given by Medis CEO at NASDAQ Opening Bell Ceremony Tomorrow sec.gov
5/31/05 Medis Technologies Ltd. Receives 2005 Excellence in Technology Award for the Development of Innovative Fuel Cell Technologies
5/31/05 Fuel Cell Keeps Power Going During Russian Blackout UTC Power
5/31/05 Market Pulse: General Dynamics unit extends Medis deal through 2008 MarketWatch
5/31/05 Medis Technologies Ltd. [MDTL] Chairman & CEO and President to Ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening Bell Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
5/31/05 Liquid Fuel Cell Battery Chargers in Development for General Dynamics' Secure Mobile Phones Company Extends Marketing Agreement with Medis Technologies After Encouraging Results from Testing with Ruggedized Handhelds General Dynamics C4 Systems
5/31/05 Battery makers juice up for portable computing boom Reuters
5/30/05 Editorial: Why hydrogen is not the super fuel of the future Vancouver Sun
5/17/05 The Latest Fuel Cell News in Japan FCDIC
5/5/05 Interview: Julian Dinsdale, Executive Chairman Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited Wall Street Reporter
5/29/05 Quantum Dot Materials Can Reduce Heat, Boost Electrical Output "Beyond potential use for photovoltaic cells, similar quantum dot technology may someday be used in photoelectrochemical cells, which could become a clean and renewable way to produce hydrogen directly from water and sunlight." NREL
5/29/05 HYDROGEN CARS Will the fuel cell be a hard or easy sell? New York Newsday
5/29/05 All hands on wheel to steer economy toward fuel cells Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
5/28/05 Are we there yet? Oil joyride may be over AP
5/27/05 Rising Oil Prices Fuel Interest In Hydrogen "some industry executives say hydrogen fuel-cell batteries used to power cell phone towers will be a mainstream product in three years" DESC Investor's Business Daily
5/26/05 CNGVC Supports Hydrogen Highway Initiative, Says Natural Gas Is Clear Bridge Group Says Existing Network of Compressed Natural Gas Stations Across California Provide Hydrogen Infrastructure, Link to Gaseous Fuels California Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition
5/27/05 H2FC Update:  Cash Burn Table revised and updated
5/27/05 Purolator rolls out fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle and hybrid electric vehicles in Toronto Hydrogenics Purolator
5/27/05 Low on Fuel at Ballard Power "What I'm wondering, though, is whether Ballard management is selling away the future bit by bit. . . ." Motley Fool
5/27/05 Fuel cell fatigue causes research funds to dry up "The mantra that 'commercialization is around the corner' is now a negative for investors who supported the Canadian fuel cell industry based in the province." Globe and Mail
5/27/05 FuelCell Energy, Inc. Invites You to Hear Second Quarter Results on Its Web Broadcast Conference Call on Monday, June 6, 2005, at 10:00 A.M. ET
5/26/05 DaimlerChrysler Brings Clean Air to California The first fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) delivered since the DOE Hydrogen Learning Demonstration Program kickoff The Auto Channel
5/26/05 Argonne to study fuel cell catalysts "will receive $3 million over three years for basic science studies that may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells" PhysOrg
5/26/05 Plan would add 2,000 hydrogen-powered cars to California roads San Diego Union-Tribune
5/26/05 5th Annual USFCC CONGRESSIONAL FUEL CELL EXPO Draws Hundreds to View Technologies on Capitol Hill
5/26/05 Development of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies - call for tenders "large-scale lighthouse project" European Commission
5/26/05 California's Palmdale Water District to Implement High-Reliability Energy Storage Systems CEC Awards Grant to Northern Power to Integrate Advanced Power Electronics Technology DESC
5/26/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Corporation Postpones Private Placement "given the current state of the capital markets"
5/26/05 Fuel cells not lithium replacement "Fuel cells have little chance of making it into phones, according to Cambridge-based fuel cell technology firm CMR Fuel Cells." Electronics Weekly
5/26/05 Fuel cell: Juice for buses, and laptops? "even major players like Burnaby, B.C.-based Ballard say it is more likely the public will be using fuel cells for backup power in their homes and to recharge their laptop computers and cellphones before they are driving around in fuel cell cars" Globe and Mail
5/26/05 FDT Associates Ltd. and Plug Power Execute Distribution Agreement for GenCore® Backup Power Products "to the telecommunication industry throughout the United Kingdom"
5/26/05 Ballard Announces US$30 Million Transaction with EBARA and EBARA BALLARD for Next Phase of Cogeneration Commercialization "will provide Ballard approximately US$30 million in cash"
5/25/05 New hydrogen sensor faster, more sensitive Argonne National Laboratory
5/25/05 Department of Energy Announces $64 Million in Hydrogen Research & Development Projects US DoE
5/25/05 National Hydrogen Association Lauds President's Recognition of Hydrogen Development
5/25/05 Fact Sheet: Developing Clean and Secure Energy Through Hydrogen Fuel The White House
5/25/05 Ford Applauds the Bush Administration Commitment to Hydrogen Vehicle Technologies
5/25/05 Agriculture, Energy Secretaries Announce Memorandum of Understanding to Advance Hydrogen Development from Biomass Biomass Investment Furthers President Bush's Hydrogen Initiative USDA
5/25/05 President Tours Hydrogen Fueling Station, Discusses Research PHOTOS! whitehouse.gov
5/25/05 Remarks by President Bush in photo opportunity after tour of hydrogen fueling station "It requires energy to produce hydrogen, and therefore, trying to use our research dollars to figure out how best to do that in efficient ways." White House Press Office
5/25/05 Bush pumps up idea of hydrogen future President visits filling station in Washington "new technology has contributed to a reduction in the cost of natural gas-based hydrogen production from $5 per gallon in 2003 to $3.60 today." MSNBC PHOTO!
5/25/05 Bush Pushing Hydrogen Fuel As Alternative "President Bush stared inquisitively down into the nozzle of a hydrogen fuel hose on Wednesday, then pumped the fuel into a blue compact car . . . the hydrogen cost $4.75 a kilogram, which is equal to a gallon of gas, but noted that the 1.83 kilograms would power the car twice as far _ about 100 miles" AP [numbers seem pretty questionable]
5/25/05 You Can Have It All "The problem with the PowerShares ETF is that it probably invests in too many shaky enterprises, such as Energy Conversion Devices" Motley Fool
5/25/05 Genesys, LLC Acquires License for new Breakthrough Technology for the Cheap Production of Hydrogen from Water "The technology (patent pending) uses a new technique called RET (radiant energy transfer) that uses the unique properties of water in order to efficiently split water to hydrogen and oxygen." [Caution: this claim appears to be roughly equivalent to claiming that the "unique properties" of campfire ashes are being used to turn those ashes back into firewood.]
5/25/05 PUC agrees to pilot with Proton Energy Systems on backup power in fuel cell New Haven Register via Fuel Cell Today
5/25/05 Think Nordic awarded grant from The Research Council of Norway to build TH!NK hydrogen with Raufoss Fuel Systems "Batteries are being supplied by MES-DEA, and the 10 kW "HyPM" fuel cell by Hydrogenics."
5/25/05 President George W. Bush Demonstrates Alternative Fuel Progress with DaimlerChrysler Fuel Cell Vehicles Chrysler Group
5/25/05 Hydrogenics Signs Contract to Provide Fuel Cell System for U.S. Army Armoured Vehicle Regenerative system makes hydrogen on-board and uses it to produce clean, quiet power for silent watch operations
5/25/05 Astris Energi Reports First Quarter 2005 Results "net loss for the first quarter of $941,716, which compares to a net loss of $580,887 for the first quarter of 2004."
5/24/05 H2FC UPDATE Bush to give speech at Washington D.C. hydrogen fueling station today.
5/25/05 Bush To Make Speech On Hydrogen At Shell/GM Hydrogen Station
5/25/05 Medis Technologies Selects Celestica as Electronics Manufacturing Services Provider for Its Power Pack Products
5/25/05 MTI Micro Receives Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award
5/25/05 Short positions in H2FC stocks as of 5/13/05 NASDAQ
5/24/05 Fuel Cell Technologies' pre-tax loss declines with higher revenue CP
5/22/05 Shell Eco-marathon: Fuel cell sets 3,836 km/l record, Gasoline wins climate prize
5/24/05 UTC Power Sets Fuel Cell Milestone, Announces Product Enhancements "accumulated more than one billion kilowatt-hours of energy with its PureCell(TM) 200 power plant solution . . . enhanced product expected to be commercially available in 2007"
5/24/05 H2FC UPDATE BLDP, PLUG, FCEL Up Today
5/24/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. 'HTC' Launches Purenergy Brand Commercial Suite of Technologies [see H2FC comment of 11/28/04. Nothing has changed.]
5/24/05 Minister upbeat about 'future hydrogen economy' South Africa Mail&Guardian
5/24/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ships Four Systems and Reports 145% Revenue Increase in First Quarter 2005
5/24/05 Protonex Names Phil Robinson VP of Engineering and Manufacturing
5/24/05 Voller Energy Group plc: Shipments of New Portable Fuel Cell Commence
5/23/05 New photocatalyst for hydrogen generation works by irradiation with visible light PhysOrg
5/23/05 Dr Xiaoming He Appointed Hydrogen Solar’s Principle Technologist, Henderson, Nevada
5/23/05 Election hopes spark German stocks "German utilities . . . were early election-play winners, gaining over 2% each on expectations that a Christian Democrat-led government wouldn't subsidize alternative energy to the same degree as a government that included the Green Party." MarketWatch
5/23/05 Why are fuel cells better than batteries? burning alcohol in your laptop means longer between charges. Juan Becerra, MTI MicroFuel Cells Techworld.com
6/2005 Solid (State) Progress Hydrogen-fuel storage for cars gets a materials boost Scientific American
5/23/05 ITI Energy announces investment to develop a low-cost hydrogen storage material Fuel Cell Today
5/23/05 Fuel for the New Millennium MCell, Medis MIT Technology Review
5/23/05 Jump-starting hydrogen car dream "California Hydrogen Highway Blueprint" San Jose Mercury News
5/23/05 ZAP and Apollo Energy Demonstrate Proprietary ''Ammonia Cracker'' Technology to Power Hydrogen Fuel Cells Patented Technology Offers Inexpensive, Zero-Emission Power Source with Potential to Accelerate Growth of Emerging Hydrogen Economy
5/23/05 Fuel cell stocks may not have enough juice "investors need to be extremely cautious when investing in this area" USA Today
5/23/05 Fuel Cell Vehicle Ride-and-Drive at 5th Annual CONGRESSIONAL FUEL CELL EXPO on Capitol Hill USFCC
5/20/05 "Hydrogen highway" between Oslo and Stavanger "Minister of Transport . . . announced Friday that some NOK 50 million [US$7.7M] is earmarked for testing alternative fuels and environmentally friendly technology. About NOK 30 million of this will go to the Hydro-led HyNor project - which wants to build a hydrogen highway between the cities of Oslo and Stavanger." Hydro
5/20/05 You Are My DestiNY Mega-mall in upstate New York could be a renewable-energy model Grist Magazine
5/20/05 MEDIS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Files SEC form 8-K, Entry Material Agreement "On May 16, 2005, the independent directors of Medis . . . agreed to increase to $220,000 the annual retainer paid to Howard Weingrow pursuant to the terms of his consulting agreement with the Registrant. Such increase is scheduled to take effect as of June 1, 2005." sec.gov
5/20/05 Energy Conversion up-- technology used in Toyota hybrids Detroit News
5/20/05 Third party joins Trans Tasman Power deal Ceramic Fuel Cells
5/19/05 Hydrogen cars still decades off "it has become clear that it will take decades to overcome the significant technological and infrastructure hurdles facing commercialization of hydrogen cars - if they can be overcome at all. 'I think the hydrogen research should be cut radically and we should be spending the resources on encouraging the utilization of technologies that are either already developed or very near commercialization and production,' former CIA Director James Woolsey said." Scripps Howard News
5/19/05 Fuel-cell breakthrough claimed by Cambridge firm "CMR Fuel Cells said it had made a breakthrough with a new design of fuel cell which is a tenth of the size of existing models and small enough to replace conventional batteries in laptop computers." Reuters
5/19/05 Cars and Fuels of the Future -- Are We There Yet? Making Hydrogen Vehicles and Fuels Available for the Rest of Us The Auto Channel
5/19/05 PACIFIC FUEL CELL CORP Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/19/05 Ballard Power Systems Inc. Notice of 2005 Annual Meeting and Management Proxy Circular Annual meeting on 6/23/05 sec.gov
5/19/05 Ballard Power Systems chief says Wall Street's wrong about fuel cells Automotive News
5/18/05 Green grease monkeys show off cars 17th annual Tour de Sol showcases alternatives
5/17/05 Hydrogenics 2005 Annual General Meeting Webcast
5/18/05 Fuel-cell cars make silent statement Victoria News
5/18/05 Senate panel rejects higher vehicle fuel economy rules "would have raised the fuel economy requirements of sport utility vehicles and light trucks to 27.5 miles a gallon by 2011 . . . The proposed energy bill would also authorize more than $3.2 billion in funding to develop hydrogen and fuel cell powered vehicles and technologies" AFX
5/11/05 New and renewable energy technology - trends in venture capital investment "Fuel cells, with $359m invested in 55 separate rounds, was the third-largest sector, with transactions such as the November 2004 $25.0m investment in US proton exchange membrane fuel cell developer ReliOn, led by Oak Investment Partners, and the $22.0m spin-off of Germany’s Pemeas Fuel Cell Technologies, led by London-based Conduit Ventures." Energy Pulse
5/18/05 Modine's Fuel Cell Products Group Provides Components to Volkswagen for New Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle
5/18/05 Cobasys Holds Dedication for Advanced Battery Technology Facility in Orion, Michigan
5/18/05 Energy Conversion upgraded by Jefferies & Co from "hold" to "buy"
5/18/05 Catalyst boosts gasoline fuel cells Technology Research News
5/17/05 MILLENNIUM CELL INC Files SEC form 8-K, Notice of Delisting or Transfer [H2FC fully expects that MCEL will be able to resolve this problem and avoid delisting]
5/17/05 The InterTech Group Acquires PBI Business, Forms PBI Performance Products, Inc. InterTech
5/17/05 Local Celanese unit has new owner "Celanese Corp. has sold its PBI polymer business . . . The new owner is PBI Performance Products Inc., an affiliate of InterTech Group of North Charleston, S.C." BizJournals
5/12/05 Celanese Divests PBI Business Celanese
5/17/05 Albany fuel cell developer gets $1M Army subcontract "MTI MicroFuel Cells has received a $1 million subcontract with the U.S. Army to develop a portable power system for soldiers." BizJournals
5/17/05 Vista Energy Group Signs United States Commercial Marketing Agreement With HTC
5/17/05 AEC Completes First 'Live' Demonstration "With over 12 in attendance, the demonstration presented AEC's technology to a group of interested investors and other involved parties. . . Video footage of AEC's 'live' demonstration will be made available on the company's website next week to registered shareholders and other qualified individuals" [Why would someone need to be "qualified" to be allowed to view a demonstration like this?]
5/16/05 Black cab goes green "The London taxi will be fitted with two 40kW high temperature Zebra batteries, which have four times the energy density of a conventional lead acid battery, and a 6kW Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell." The Engineer Online
5/17/05 Chinese auto makers pursues clean energy sources ""Chinese auto makers are thinking of using hydrogen as a major new energy source, just like most developed nations," said Hu. But he noted that the high cost is a major barrier to expand hydrogen,so mixed fuels have to be considered as another choice." People's Daily
5/17/05 Acumentrics Intalls 5 Kw Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System in Cuyahoga Valley National Park
5/16/05 GE energy unit sees wind revenues over $2 bln in 2005 "has received orders and commitments for 2005 that total 2,400 megawatts of new wind power capacity worldwide." MarketWatch
5/17/05 NextEnergy flips on the switch Two firms sign deals to move to new lab space on site near Wayne State Detroit Free Press
5/17/05 SatCon Technology Reports FY2005 Second Quarter Results "revenue for the quarter was $8.3 million dollars compared to $8.2 million in 2004 . . . "
5/2005 Hydrogen Safety Report Japan Automobile Research Institute Studies Odorants for Fuel Cell Vehicles; Lessons Learned from the Natural Gas Industry, more NHA
5/17/05 ECD Ovonics Completes Option Exercise for Purchase of 4,376,633 Shares of its Common Stock from Chevron 13.4% Reduction of Issued and Outstanding Common Stock
5/16/05 Toyota denies new tech deal after meeting with GM "The heads of Toyota and General Motors met in a courtesy call that reaffirmed a longtime partnership but stopped short of producing any new deals on technology, a Toyota spokesman said Monday. . . Wagoner also met with Toyota Honorary Chairman Shoichiro Toyoda. But Nolasco denied Japanese media reports that Cho and Wagoner discussed sharing hybrid technology or setting up a joint venture on fuel cells . . ." AP
5/16/05 Toyota Develops High-pressure Hydrogen Tanks for Fuel Cell Vehicles "the 70MPa tank, also designed and sized for the TOYOTA FCHV, can store approximately 1.7 times more hydrogen than the previous 35MPa tank, resulting in a cruising range of more than 500km "
5/16/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Corporation Announces Resignation of Board Member Meredith Cartwright
5/16/05 MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS INC Files SEC form 10QSB, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/13/05 MILLENNIUM CELL INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/16/05 Fuel-Cell Tanks Buck Convention carbon nanostructures Wired
5/16/05 MTI MicroFuel Cells Hosts Congressional Presentation on Fuel Cells For Military
5/16/05 Hope for energy future in fuel cells, new diesel: No revolution, but progress from Britain, Qatar Ceres Power Boston Herald
5/16/05 Ceres’ fuel cell sets new global standards in performance tests "The tests, conducted over periods of more than 3,000 hours, showed that Ceres’ third generation fuel cells significantly exceed previously reported global industry standards of performance." Ceres Power
5/16/05 Ceres power cell sets world alight The Times of London
5/16/05 Hydrogen Rolls-Royce? Automotive News Europe
5/15/05 University plans to use renewable energy "SUNY ESF will soon install a fuel cell . . . willow shrubs which will be turned into a gas that's used to power the fuel cell . . . will spend more than a million dollars purchasing a fuel cell. It uses trees for fuel, and will power 8% of the campus with renewable energy." News 10 Now [Either UTC or FCEL]
5/15/05 Tenn. School Joins Race to Make Fuel Cell AP
5/13/05 Cypress tests fuel cell power "Cypress Semiconductors plans to install what will be the Bay Area's only fuel cell power generator at its San Jose campus this fall. . . The 5-kilowatt power plant . . . is being produced by Ion America Corp." BizJournals
5/15/05 Toyota, GM Strengthen Partnership Heads of Toyota, General Motors Strengthen Partnership in Fuel Cell Technology AP
5/14/05 GM betting on bump in advertising dollars "Spending will rise 10 percent or more on new-model advertising, and GM will triple the number of months it runs commercials for the Hummer H3 sport-utility vehicle, a redesigned Chevrolet Impala sedan and other vehicles . . . the automaker also will increase its budget to promote the Chevrolet Suburban and similar large SUVs, after sales of those models fell last year and in the first four months of 2005" Bloomberg via Chicago Tribune [Article is wrong about GM not revealing what it spends on ads. The amount is right there on page II-32 of GM's annual report.]
5/13/05 SatCon Technology to Report FY2005 Second Quarter Results Tuesday, May 17
5/13/05 Toyota Stays Mum on Possible Fuel Cell Vehicle Deal With GM Voice of America
5/13/05 Mechanical Technology, Watervliet Arsenal slated for defense funding "Mechanical Technology Inc., and Plug Power Inc., are among the entities that will benefit from the funding" Albany Business Review
5/13/05 Dickie Walker Marine Announces Filing of Registration Statement Regarding Proposed Acquisition of Intelligent Energy
5/13/05 New fuel cell opens way for artificial hearts "runs on blood without using toxic substances, opening the way for use in artificial hearts and other organs" AFP
5/12/05 GM and Toyota reported planning fuel cell venture Final deal on 'Project Apollo' could be months away LA Times via Detroit News
5/12/05 GM and Toyota meeting amid fears of a possible U.S. backlash AP [Does this mean that Toyota's real motivation for any fuel cell joint venture with GM is cover for Toyota's increasing US market share? Just as GM's real motivation for investing in FCVs is to keep the politicians off their back?]
5/11/05 Plug Power Announces Shareholder Meeting "Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 10:00 a.m. (EDT) at the NASDAQ, Four Times Square (corner of 43rd & Broadway) in New York, N.Y."
4/27/05 American Honda Motor and Climate Energy Announce Agreement to Release Compact Household Cogeneration System in the US Specifications Honda
4/26/05 Honda and Climate Energy Launch New Energy Technology for the Home Micro-CHP System Will Allow Homeowners to Produce Their Own Electricity While Heating Their Homes "The Honda unit's compact design consists of a small natural gas-powered internal combustion engine developed specifically for this application, and a small electrical generation system that utilizes Honda's sine wave inverter technology. . . similar version of Honda's cogeneration unit has been available for general use in Japan since March of 2003, and is now in more than 15,000 homes, lending the technology a track record of reliability." Honda
5/9/05 Crossroads Venture Fair Judges Avalence "Best Early Stage Company of 2005" "Avalence . . . is a Connecticut-based company with a leading-edge electrolytic technology to produce high-pressure hydrogen gas for transportation and clean energy infrastructure applications. Avalence is a spin-off of two privately owned firms with over 150 years combined experience in the fields of hydrogen and air-separation equipment design and manufacture." Avalence
5/11/05 Toyota, GM may set up fuel-cell venture Daily Yomiuri
5/11/05 Fuel-cell vehicles put firms on road to greener future Daily Yomiuri
5/9/05 Fueling innovation review of the state of the fuel cell industry The Deal
5/11/05 Japanese automaker Mitsubishi to start selling electric cars in 2010 AP
5/10/05 Rolls looks to put fuel cell division in Ohio "The company's objective is to develop and build a 1-megawatt fuel cell generator for industrial use or for utilities to locate along their transmission systems." Cleveland Plain Dealer
5/11/05 Mechanical Technology reports $6.1M loss "Mechanical Technology also is scaling back the number of Mobion microfuel-cell units that it will sell to a maker of hand-held bar code and radio frequency tag scanners . . ." Albany Times Union
5/11/05 ECD Ovonics' Battery Subsidiary Expands Consumer Battery Relationship With BYD "for its proprietary nickel metal hydride (NiMH) battery technology with BYD Company Limited (BYD) of the People's Republic of China. Under the consumer battery license grant, BYD has a royalty-bearing, nonexclusive right to make, use and sell consumer NiMH batteries for nonpropulsion applications."
5/11/05 GM, Toyota to Produce Fuel Cells in U.S., People Say "Toyota and GM will form a fuel-cell venture, Japan's government-run broadcaster NHK reported earlier today on its Web site, citing unidentified people familiar with the plan." Bloomberg.com
5/11/05 SSI Develops Small Fuel Cell For Cameras, Notebooks "Seiko Instruments Inc. plans to commercialize a small polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) in fiscal 2007 . . . a kind of PEFC that extracts hydrogen from sodium tetrahydridoborate (NaBH4) using malic acid as the catalyst . . . This fuel cell is made from three compartments: a box holding the liquid catalyst, a reaction chamber where hydrogen is extracted from NaBH4 and a power-generating cell." Nikkei
5/11/05 Toyota, GM in talks on fuel-cell car joint venture: report Kyodo
5/10/05 East Rochester Schools Wants to Use Fuel Cell "The district has already secured $1 million for the $2.5 million project." R News
5/10/05 Cows Power Hydrogen Fuel Cell "operating an anaerobic digester-a system that collects manure to capture methane gas for conversion to electricity. The addition of the hydrogen fuel cell is the latest innovative project on the farm" Ag Report
5/10/05 Engineers face major challenges to make fuel-cell cars reality Purdue University
5/09/05 Partnership will put fuel cell bus on Flint streets Kettering University
5/10/05 UC Riverside Researchers Aim to Make Fuel Cell Technology Commercially Viable "work focuses on the use of carbon nanotubes – tiny tubes about 10,000 times thinner than a human hair - as catalyst support in fuel cells to reduce the need for platinum nanoparticles. The Pacific Fuel Cell Corporation and the UC Discovery Grant program support the research"
5/10/05 Dynetek reports 2005 first quarter results Record first quarter revenue of $6.9 million
5/10/05 GE Chief Urges US to Adopt Clearer Energy Policy "Immelt said that General Electric would double its research budget for energy and environmental technologies to $1.5 billion and that such products were expected to bring in revenues of $20 billion by the year 2010, compared with $10 billion last year." New York Times
5/10/05 Energy Conversion Devices Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2005 Operating Results Significant Growth in Product Sales at United Solar Ovonic "net loss of $11.3 million on revenues of $17.9 million for the third quarter ended March 31, 2005"
5/9/05 Johnson Announces Agenda For Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition 2005 Annual Symposium
5/10/05 FuelCell Energy Power Plant to Generate Electricity, Provide Heat and Hot Water, at State University of New York's Syracuse Campus
5/10/05 Medis Technologies Reports First Quarter Results "For the quarter ended March 31, 2005, the net loss was $4,968,000, or $.18 per share"
5/10/05 MTI Reports First Quarter Results "For the three months ended March 31, 2005, the Company reported net loss of $6.054 million, or $(0.20) per diluted share"
5/10/05 Northern Power Achieves ISO 9001:2000 Registration
5/9/05 When It Comes to Replacing Oil Imports, Nuclear Is No Easy Option, Experts Say " . . . a former member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [said:] 'No one knowledgeable about energy policy would link nuclear power and gasoline prices.' . . . however, experts point to three intersections of oil and nuclear power that would offer opportunities to cut demand for oil, pushing down its price