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 and strategic significance. But all are limited, clumsy, expensive or dependent on new technologies whose success is not guaranteed . . ." NY Times
5/9/05 PLUG POWER INC Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/9/05 Air Products Selects Proton Energy Systems as Preferred Supplier for Electrolysis-Based Hydrogen Fueling Stations Three Stations Slated for California to be Operational in 2005
5/9/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Ltd. Ships System to Power Greenhouse
5/9/05 DISTRIBUTED ENERGY SYSTEMS CORP Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report sec.gov
5/9/05 Williams de Broe Ups Johnson Matthey To Buy "Company has 'one of the most promising routes to cracking issue' of hydrogen storage, the last remaining engineering problem for fuel cell-powered vehicles." newratings.com
5/9/05 Hydrogenics Reports First Quarter 2005 Results Delivers Record Revenues of U.S.$11.3 Million and Substantially Completes Integration of Stuart Energy "net loss of $11.2 million"
5/9/05 NanoLogix Study Confirms Early Success Of Hydrogen Bioreactor "NanoLogix believes they have discovered the most likely method for low cost production of massive quantities of hydrogen as an alternate energy source."
5/9/05 Energy Ventures Organization, Inc. Joins Apollo Resources International, Inc. in Advance Research and Development in the Hydrogen Fuel Industry "Under the agreement, Apollo Alternative Fuels now owns 50% of the stock in Energy Ventures, a pioneer in the fast growing hydrogen fuels industry. . . We are going to educate the public first, the new Hydrogen Economy will soon be here."
5/9/05 Hydrogen energy touted at conference Bangor Daily News
5/8/05 Metro Detroiter plans energy-efficient railway His Whitmore Lake firm designs a transit system that runs on hydrogen, solar power. Detroit News
5/8/05 World scientists meet on future energy needs Press Association
5/7/05 Developers Seek Breakthrough for Fuel Cell-Powered Laptops Technewsworld
5/7/05 Hydrogen's future may lie in trains It could be the quickest track to reducing our dependence on oil The Charlotte Observer
5/7/05 Fledgling new energy technologies experimented at expo Kyodo
5/7/05 Fuel cell conference at USC next week Event will include tour of National Science Foundation’s research center The State
5/6/05 The newest hybrid; Hydrogen and Petrol "Ford has unveiled a supercharged hydrogen internal combustion engine that will be produced primarily as shuttles in airports. . . The first bi-fuel BMW’s will probably happen in three years in Europe, where hydrogen is more widely accepted." carlist.com
5/6/05 Superwarriors may be cell powered action men ITM Power Business Weekly
5/6/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Corporation - Annual General Meeting webcast notification - May 10, 2005
5/5/05 The Earth as a Power Source discussion of geothermal energy IssueAlert
5/6/05 Fuel cell vehicles are on the way, exec says "In a speech to the Automotive Press Association Thursday in Detroit, Campbell predicted that commercially viable fuel cells could be on the market by the year 2010." Detroit Free Press
5/6/05 Nissan set to offer leases of fuel cell-powered SUVs to U.S. businesses "on track to deliver limited numbers of fuel cell SUVs in the United States within two years" Automotive News
5/6/05 Dynetek Industries announces First Quarter 2005 Financial Results conference call Wednesday May 11, 2005 7:00 a.m. MST (9:00 a.m. EST)
5/6/05 HyRadix Adds New Investors Koch Genesis, SAM Group in Latest Financing Round
5/5/05 Toyota Declines Comment On Reported Meeting With GM Executives "It is believed they will discuss ways that Toyota can help GM in areas such as safety and environmental technologies" "Citing ineffective management strategies, Standard & Poor's on Thursday downgraded GM and Ford Motor Co. to junk status with a negative outlook." Dow Jones
5/5/05 Power+Energy Inc. Receives New Navy SBIR Award P+E to develop alternatives for a sulfur compatible hydrogen separation membranes
5/5/05 DOE Supports Promising Membrane Technology For Coal-to-Hydrogen Production National Energy Technology Laboratory
5/5/05 EMTEC starts online fuel cell database Dayton Business Journal
5/5/05 MTI Reschedules First Quarter Earnings Call to Tuesday, May 10, 2005
5/5/05 Praxair and Proton Energy Systems Sign Distribution Agreements for U.S. and Canada DESC
5/5/05 Fuel Cell Vehicle Ride-and-Drive at 5th Annual Congressional Fuel cell Expo on Capitol Hill USFCC
5/5/05 Betting on fuel cells' future Ion Power is among small companies advancing the technology delawareonline.com/The News Journal
5/5/05 Toyota and GM to discuss technology cooperation, says Japanese report "Mr. Wagoner is expected to fly to Japan on 14 May for a meeting which is also likely to be attended by GM's head of R&D Larry Burns, according to the Japanese source." AutoIndustry UK
5/5/05 Accounting change hurts firm's bottom line " Plug Power Inc., for instance, said its $46.7 million loss in 2004 would have looked $7.6 million worse with options expensing." Albany Times Union
5/5/05 SHEC Labs Releases Fuel Energy Calculator
5/5/05 Hydrogen to fuel job growth "Stanford Ovshinsky plans to open a plant in Akron by the end of the year that will test hydrogen fuel storage tanks for a new generation of nonpolluting cars and other applications" Akron Beacon Journal
5/5/05 Praxair and Proton Energy Systems Sign Distribution Agreements for U.S. and Canada "exclusive distributor in Canada" Praxair
5/4/05 Blacquiere worried about hydrogen village fire "P.E.I.'s fire marshall has raised concerns about the so-called hydrogen village slated to be built in Tignish. . . The fire marshall says firefighters will need specialized training in order to handle fires." CBC
5/4/05 Distributed Energy Posts Sharply Higher 1st Quarter Revenues Company to Host Investor Conference Call Thursday, May 5th at 11:00AM (EDT) "first quarter revenues rose to $9.54 million, compared with $1.95 million during the first three months of 2004"
5/4/05 Apollo Resources International Subsidiary Completes Stock Purchase of Hydrogen Fuel Technologies Company
4/29/05 Energy developer reports on International activities Senior executives at Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (ASX code CFU) have participated in significant international forums on energy and manufacturing in the last fortnight.
5/4/05 'Metal-Decorated' Nanotubes Hold Promise for Fuel Cells AZoNano
5/4/05 Forget fossils, future is in fuel cells Commercial use is decades away but progress is being made Today Online (Singapore)
5/4/05 Nano pyramids boost fuel cells Technology Research News
5/4/05 U.S. Risks Missing the Boat in Micro-Power Fuel Cells Low Awareness Ceding Crucial, New Market to Japan, Others, States PolyFuel CEO PolyFuel 5/3/05 Hydrogen powers Hunt Valley firm Teledyne subsidiary working on futuristic fueling stations Towson Jeffersonian
5/3/05 Midwest Research Projects Look to Hydrogen AP
5/3/05 Norway’s road construction giant to cut CO2 emissions in half with the help of hydrogen Bellona
5/3/05 HERA Partners with McGill University
5/3/05 FuelCell Energy Power Plant Running on Waste Byproduct to Generate Stable Electricity Source for Showcase Eco-Community in Kyoto, Japan
5/3/05 Medis Technologies Schedules First Quarter Financial Results and Conference Call Tuesday, May 10, 2005
5/3/05 MTI to Discuss 2005 First Quarter Results and Activities During Conference Call on May 6, 2005
5/3/05 Proton Energy Systems and Airgas Sign Agreement to Market On-Site Hydrogen Generators to Utilities, Others
5/3/05 Coverage initiated on Ballard Power by Merriman Curhan Ford "Neutral"
5/2/05 Jolimont Ventures buys CSIRO holding Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited has been notified that CSIRO has sold its shares in CFCL to specialist venture capital firm Jolimont Ventures.
5/2/05 Medis Files Form 14A Proxy Statement Annual meeting July 21, 2005 sec.gov
5/2/05 Ford Annouces Partnership To Bring Hydrogen Vehicles To Desert Region "multi-year partnership that will place at least five hydrogen powered Ford shuttles in operation next year in California's Coachella Valley"
4/30/05 Six High Schools Win the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge USDOE
5/2/05 Nano World: Nano could hasten hydrogen "Nanotechnology-assisted solar energy could help bring the dream of hydrogen-fueled vehicles to reality more quickly and cheaply" UPI
5/2/05 Astris Energi Reports Fiscal 2004 Results "Revenue for the year ended December 31, 2004 was $88,798, compared with $67,870 for the previous year. . . Astris reported a net loss for the year ended December 31, 2004 of $3,462,257 compared with a loss of $2,206,969 in 2003."
5/2/05 Electronic gadgets eat more energy "Improved batteries, efficiency sought to balance new devices' increasing power demands" Kensington InsideBayArea.com
5/2/05 Researchers vie to boost value of the fuel cell Medis, Neah InsideBayArea.com
5/2/05 Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. Announces Third-Quarter 2005 Financial Results Conference Call and Webcast May 11, 2005 at noon (ET)
5/2/05 Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. Announces Arrival of New Microwave Plasma Enhanced CVD System for Nano-Technology Research
5/2/05 H2 compressor pushes fuel cell cars' range "Kaji Technology Corp.'s recent success in developing a compressor that can deliver hydrogen at 110 megapascals [15,954.PSI], the highest pressure ever achieved for the gas." Nikkei
5/1/05 Will gasoline cars be obsolete in a decade? Maybe "General Motors Corp.'s development team at the company's Honeoye Falls Fuel Cell Activities Center" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
5/1/05 Midwest scientists pin fuel hopes on hydrogen Researchers say energy source could reduce pollution, global warming Argus Leader
5/9/05 A New Kind of Combustion "GM has staked out an aggressive technological timetable for hydrogen, pledging that by 2010 it will design a fuel-cell vehicle able to be mass produced." U.S. News & World Report

April 2005

4/29/05 Arizona home runs solely on hydrogen UPI
4/29/05 PRESS CONFERENCE POLITICS "The American people are annoyed/vexed/angry over high gas prices, but the only way to diminish the consumption of fuel is to increase gas prices yet more. . . It is instructive that the reporters at the press conference -- a full house -- pressed Mr. Bush hardly at all on energy policy. That reflects in part the sense of futility in pursuing a policy question the only effective answer to which is excluded by rudimentary political considerations." William F. Buckley Jr.
4/29/05 Voller Energy Group plc: Trading Update "The Directors of the Company note the recent fall in the Company's share price and are not aware of any reason for this fall. . ."
4/27/05 Hydrogen Bill Passes Unanimously in Florida House FL Energy Office
4/29/05 Another day at the hydrogen-powered office "The world’s first office block powered by wind, rain and sun is to be built in Scotland" The Scotsman
4/29/05 MEDIS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Files SEC form 8-K "On April 25, 2005, Medis Technologies Ltd. (the "Registrant") loaned $140,000 to Ms. Michelle Rush, our Vice President of Marketing. . ." sec.gov
4/29/05 Fuel Cell Japan, Issue 6 - Event Report from the FC Expo 2005 Fuel Cell Japan
4/29/05 Nuvera Powers FIAT Vehicle in First Fuel Cell Reliability Race Fuel cell developer’s hydrogen PEM stack yields superior performance at Monte Carlo road rally, resulting in high fuel efficiency and reliability
4/29/05 Harnessing the power of the sun to clean water "The cell exploits electrochemistry to enhance the rate of pollutant degradation and produces an electric current at the same time." Scotsman.com
4/29/05 Fuel Cell Propulsion Fitted into New Portuguese Subs Defense Industry Daily
4/28/05 The Latest Fuel Cell News In Japan, Arpil 2005 FCDIC
4/28/05 Toledo firm awarded hydrogen contract "Midwest Optoelectronics LLC has been awarded a nearly $675,000 contract to develop a small-scale manufacturing process for a panel it developed to produce hydrogen from water using sunlight" Toledo Balde
4/28/05 Hoku Scientific, Inc. Files Registration Statement for IPO Hoku Scientific, Inc.
4/28/05 Hoku Scientific plans IPO to raise $58 million Honolulu Advertiser
4/28/05 HyRadix Adeo Hydrogen Generator Passes 1st Year Anniversary at SunLine Transit
4/28/05 Enova Systems Continues Major Role in Fuel Cell Vehicle Sector Enova Systems
4/28/05 EDITORIAL: Fuel Cells Start Entering Homes "At the moment, the only units available for home power generation are [PEM fuel cells] that generate power at a conversion efficiency of 31%, which is much lower than the figure for typical thermal power generation. Since the excess heat can be used to make hot water for homes, the overall efficiency can be as high as 70%. . . The biggest problem with fuel cells is price. The currently available system costs some 8 million yen [US$75,500]. Without the 6-million-yen government subsidy per unit, few homes would use the system. For fuel cells to be widely used, costs must be slashed. There are also some technological challenges that must be tackled before usage spreads, including increasing the useful life of the cells." Nikkei
4/28/05 Commentary: Bush Is Blowing Smoke on Energy Hitting all the points in a noted GOP pollster's playbook, the President's plan is driven by politics not policy. Worse, it won't cut oil dependency "The President's failure to propose any meaningful solutions, while claiming to "do the right thing for America" makes it hard not to conclude that the Administration's main goal is not energy independence, but rather improving its standing the polls." BusinessWeek
4/27/05 Remarks by President Bush at the Small Business Administration's National Small Business Week Conference White House Press Office
4/27/05 Automakers applaud Bush tax incentives for hybrids, clean-diesel AP
4/27/05 Fact Sheet: Promoting Energy Independence and Security The White House
4/27/05 Millennium Cell Reports First Quarter Results "reported a net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2005 of $3.1 million, or $0.08 per share, as compared to $3.4 million, or $0.10 per share in the same period of 2004"
4/27/05 Leading Energy & CleanTech Companies, Private Equity Investors and Dealmakers to Convene at 2nd Annual Energy Tech Investor Conference, June 2005 Medis, MTI Strategic Research Institute
4/27/05 Sustainable Energy Delivers Next Generation Fuel Cell Inverter
4/27/05 Solar Integrated Technologies and GE Commercial Finance Energy Financial Services Team Up to Finance Solar Project Utilizing Uni-Solar Ovonic Solar Products San Diego's city schools will be the first to benefit from an agreement to fund new solar roofing projects 4/27/05 Neah Power Systems Announces Achievement of Micro Fuel Cell Technical Milestone Demonstrates High Power Output from Innovative Silicon-Based "Engine" "A fully integrated, multi-cell "stack", functioning as the core engine of the fuel cell, was recently demonstrated at the company's laboratory."
4/27/05 BOC Foundation Supports ITM’s Hydrogen Electrolyser Research ITM
4/27/05 Plug Power Reports Progress Against Key Milestones and Financial Results for 1st Quarter Results in line with management expectations "Net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, was $12.5 million, or $0.17 per share, compared to $12.0 million, or $0.16 per share, for the same period in 2004."
4/27/05 Short Positions in NASDAQ Stocks NASDAQ
4/27/05 Increasing Military Needs For Portable Power Jane's report: 'Powerful Challenges: A view on the Evolving State of Powering Technologies for Soldier-borne Equipment' MTI MicroFuel Cells Inc.
4/27/05 Nanonickel to Replace Platinum as a Catalyst in Fuel Cells and in Other Applications AZoNano.com
4/26/05 Power+Energy Presents Data On High Efficiency Hydrogen Separation Membranes For Fuel Cells US Navy plans use of fuel cells for ship-board power with hydrogen sourced from diesel fuel
4/26/05 Ballard Power loss narrows in first quarter Reuters
4/26/05 Ballard reports Q1 loss of $32.4M US compared with $37.2M US year ago' "Our cash consumption for 2005, net of expected recoveries from automotive fuel cell systems-related expenditures, is expected to be between $60 million and $80 million." CP
4/26/05 Ballard Announces 2005 First Quarter Results and Achievements
4/26/05 NexTech Materials Updates www.fuelcellmaterials.com website for better customer interface More customer service, easier on-line ordering, increased quantities & improved products
4/26/05 Millennium Cell Announces Closing on Joint Development Program with The Dow Chemical Company
4/26/05 Hydrogenics Annual Report sec.gov
4/26/05 Millennium Cell Announces $10 Million Private Placement Financing "Series C convertible preferred stock ("Series C Preferred") and warrants based on a 25% coverage ratio. The three-year Series C Preferred provides for cumulative dividends at 7% per annum and has a stated conversion price of $2 per share, which is adjustable under certain conditions. The warrants issued with the preferred have an exercise price of $2 per share and also have a term of three years."
4/26/05 Gas Goes Green "fuel cells might be able to harvest the hydrogen created when bacteria consumes organic matter" Motley Fool
4/26/05 ZAP Signs Distribution Agreement with Leading Mass Retailer Target Corporation to Sell Line of Advanced Battery Products ZAP Multi-Purpose Portable Energy Products Now Available through Target.com Online Shopping Website
4/26/05 DEP, Delta Airlines, Ford to Tug on Hydrogen for Power Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
4/26/05 Hydrogenics to Announce First Quarter Results May 9, 2005, conference call and webcast at 10:30 a.m. (EDT)
4/26/05 Medis Technologies Releases Letter to Shareholders Regarding Recent Meetings with Mobile Operators
4/26/05 Smith Barney ups Mechanical Tech. to "buy" Reuters
4/26/05 Supercostly Crude: Winners and Losers Here are some companies that will gain most if oil hits $100 a barrel -- and some that will be feeling the most pain. FCEL BusinessWeek
4/26/05 Japan Energy To Spend Y6bn [US$56.6M] On Fuel Cells And Other New Ops "in new lines of business such as residential-use fuel cells during the three years through fiscal 2007" Nikkei
4/25/05 Asahi Glass Confirms Viability Of Fuel Cell Electrolyte Film "has successfully completed an experiment to operate a fuel cell electrolyte film for 4,000 consecutive hours at 120 degrees C, the same environment as required in driving a fuel cell-powered vehicle" Nikkei
4/25/05 Fuel cell car for TOMORROW Honda develops an environmentally friendly hydrogen-powered car Knight Ridder
4/25/05 Fuel cell pulls hydrogen out of bacteria "Researchers at Penn State University and Ion Power have developed a process for fuel cells that can harvest the hydrogen produced when bacteria consume organic matter." CNET
4/21/05 Fuel cell "AutoTram" developed "The power system is an 80-kilowatt fuel cell supplied by Ballard Power Systems and backed up by a compact CCM Nuenen flywheel that can contribute up to 325 kilowatts." Platinum Today (Johnson Matthey)
4/25/05 Millennium Cell to Host First Quarter Conference Call Thursday, April 28, 2005
4/25/05 Mobile Mobile Cell Phone Charging Station "Winters' and Chick's business, called Mobile Mobile, charges $.50 a minute for use of their giant battery and a compatible power adapter." Popgadget
4/25/05 The Obstacles to Improving Battery Technology NPR
4/25/05 Magnetek Reorganization Centers on Alternative Energy Products New Power Conversion Platforms Expected to Grow at Double-Digit Rates with Market Demand
4/25/05 QuestAir Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2005 Conference Call
4/25/05 FuelCell Energy Receives Green Globe Award as a Leader in Alternative Energy from King County
4/25/05 Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. Announces Acquisition of Intellectual Property for Prototype
4/24/05 Hydrogen: The future's fuel? UF researchers want to convert water into fuel Gainesville Sun
4/24/05 Owners charged up over electric cars, but manufacturers have pulled the plug San Francisco Chronicle
4/23/05 Wind Power World's Fastest-Growing New Electricity Source Financial incentives, technology critical for further development U.S. State Department
4/23/05 UND unveils first hydrogen vehicle Sleek, futuristic-looking racer will run as an exhibit in two summer contests Grand Forks Herald
4/23/05 Bush’s Sustainable Energy Plan is “Bullsh*t” "Yesterday, while Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) was talking up the new energy bill’s hydrogen fuel subsidies at a crowded Capitol Hill news conference, Rep. Pombo turned to House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) and whispered, “This is bulls–t.” (A CNN journalist happened to be within earshot.) . . . while President Bush trumpets the long-term gains of hydrogen, he’s actually reducing investment in clean technologies that already exist, sopping the profit-flushed fossil fuel industries with billions in subsidies, and actively opposing efforts to make today’s cars and trucks cleaner and more fuel-efficient . . ." Think Progress [see CNN story here]
4/22/05 Millennium Cell Inc. Earnings Call scheduled for Thu, Apr 28
4/22/05 Portuguese navy orders two submarines with Siemens fuel cell technology noticias.info
4/22/05 Fuel Cells: From Lab to Market Frost & Sullivan says the industry is heading toward commercial-ization this year. Other analysts are more skeptical, but say real advances have been made. Smart Fuel Cell, PolyFuel, Toshiba, Medis Red Herring
4/22/05 Toyota Fuel Cell and Hybrid Vehicles Make State Capitol Debut "On its inaugural trip to Michigan, the Toyota Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle, which typically resides in California, performed perfectly, silently cruising around downtown Lansing. . ." Toyota Technical Center
4/22/05 MTA, Kettering partnership bringing fuel cell bus to Flint The Flint Journal
4/22/05 Microbial fuel cell: High yield hydrogen source and wastewater cleaner Penn State
4/22/5 Western Minnesota winds could be made into hydrogen Minnesota Public Radio
4/22/05 First ethanol-hydrogen station planned "The $3 million fueling station would provide hydrogen from ethanol, a corn-based alternative fuel, for a small fleet of fuel-cell vehicles being tested by Chicago." UPI
4/22/05 Obama, Emanuel seek funding for ethanol-to-hydrogen fueling station AP
4/22/05 P.E.I. to test wind as energy source Canadian Press
4/22/05 Hydrogenics and PEI Energy Corporation Partner to Develop Prince Edward Island Wind-Hydrogen Village Project $10.3 million project - the world’s first of its kind - awarded funding through h2EA program
4/22/05 UTC Power Lauds U.S. House Support of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology in New Energy Law House approves $4 billion in DOE funding for hydrogen fuel cell technology, 15 percent fuel cell investment tax credit, $50 million fuel cell bus demo program
4/22/05 Millennium Cell Announces Management Appointments "permanent appointment of H. David Ramm as Chief Executive Officer . . ."
4/22/05 Distributed Energy Systems Schedules Conference Call to Discuss First Quarter Results Thursday, May 5th, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
4/22/05 H2 vehicles granted accessed to coveted taxi and bus lanes in Norway Bellona
4/21/05 The end of oil is closer than you think Oil production could peak next year, reports John Vidal. Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye "Although there is no agreement about the date that world oil production will peak, forecasts presented by USGS geologist Les Magoon, the Oil and Gas Journal, and others expect the peak will occur between 2003 and 2020. What is notable ... is that none extend beyond the year 2020, suggesting that the world may be facing shortfalls much sooner than expected." The Guardian
4/21/05 Nissan Donates Xterra Fuel Cell Vehicle to Petersen Automotive Museum Nissan North America, Inc.
4/21/05 Hydrogen village on P.E.I. will use wind power to create hydrogen fuel
4/21/05 Millennium Cell Shareholders Approve Stock Issuance for Joint Development Agreement with the Dow Chemical Company
4/21/05 Ballard Power Systems Announces First Quarter 2005 Conference Call Wednesday April 27, 2005 at 10:00 a.m. PST
4/21/05 The fuel-cell promise is still just a promise "Back in 1999, hydrogen-fuelled vehicles like the five models in a Vancouver demonstration project were just five years away. But it looks like we'll be waiting a few more years before all the questions are answered" Globe and Mail
4/21/05 MTI Micro Names Russel Marvin Vice President of Engineering "Prior to Torrington, Marvin was Vice President of Engineering at Plug Power where he led a substantial technical team and worked to develop business plan requirements for Plug Power prior to its public offering in 1999."
4/21/05 Ener1 Appoints Additional Independent Director
4/21/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Corporation Announces Annual General Meeting of Shareholders Tuesday, May 10, 2005
4/20/05 Cheaper membrane for fuel cells PolyFuel ElectronicsWeekly.com
4/13/05 Commission Order Aims To Promote Development Of New Submarine Hydropower Technology "plan to test submarine electricity-production turbines does not require a hydropower license" FERC
4/20/05 U.S. Research Targets Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Infrastructure Decision on commercial hydrogen economy likely 10 years away U.S. State Department
4/20/05 DaimlerChrysler sees little impact from hybrid technology for 10 yrs AFX
4/20/05 Plug Power to Announce First Quarter Results Wednesday, April 27, 2005
4/20/05 Cell-out: Energy innovation ignored "after field trials here - probably including an eco-village display home - this new fuel cell product will go to market first in Europe, not Australia" The Australian
4/19/05 PolyFuel Named One of 200 Finalists for Red Herring 100 Annual Red Herring 100 to Be Awarded at the Red Herring Spring Conference
4/18/05 Fuel Cell Co-Generation System Installed in Japanese Apartment Complex "The systems went into the agency's rental accommodations in Tokyo and Osaka prefectures. . . were installed in 43 out of 337 units in the apartment complex" Japan For Sustainability
4/19/05 Nextek Power Systems, Inc. Pumps up the Volume "Nextek Power Systems, Inc. announced today the launch of its new high efficiency 75 kilowatt Digital Power Gateway to be manufactured under an Agreement with Ballard Power Systems, Inc." Nextek
4/19/05 His energy's in energy Mutual fund part of personal crusade - Robert Wilder of PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio (AMEX:PBW) San Diego Union Tribune
4/19/05 First Field Trial for Australian Fuel Cell Appliance SOFC Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
4/18/05 Mitsubishi Motors to end fuel cell vehicle project with Daimler "moving instead towards independent development of such vehicles" AFX
4/18/05 Honda's Fuel-Cell Car Almost Ready for Prime Time "a rough estimate of how much the FCX that I had been driving cost Honda to build: between $1 million and $2 million" Bloomberg
4/15/05 ENER1 INC Files SEC form 10KSB, Annual Report sec.gov
4/15/05 MANHATTAN SCIENTIFICS INC Files SEC form 10KSB, Annual Report sec.gov
4/17/05 India-made 'green' car finds global takers "Reva has signed a deal with Hydrogenics Corporation whereby the Canadian company will develop a special fuel cell to replace the batteries. . . commercial realization may come in two-three years, Mr. Maini felt" The Hindu
4/16/05 Bush prods Congress on energy legislation "In his broadcast, Bush said the nation must promote the use of safe, clean nuclear power and create more energy choices. . . . The bill must also support pollution-free cars and trucks, powered by hydrogen fuel cells instead of gasoline" AP
4/15/05 King County to honor 14 for environmental achievements Green Globe Awards given in Earth Day ceremony, April 22, 2005 "FuelCell Energy, Inc. will receive the Leader in Alternative Energy for its leadership in taking the risk, providing the expertise and making the substantial investment in a fuel cell demonstration project with King County and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."
4/2005 Hydrogen Safety Report National Hydrogen Association
4/15/05 The Good and Bad of the Energy Bill "The energy bill is getting older, but it isn’t getting any better. . . The energy bill also tries to pick winners and losers among sources of energy. It contains many targeted tax breaks designed to encourage certain alternative energy technologies and to promote energy efficiency and conservation, as well as billions of dollars for research. Solar and wind energy systems, fuel cells, alternative vehicles, and nuclear and clean coal research are among the beneficiaries." Heritage.org
4/15/05 Hydrogen project still delayed Air Products trying to get research under way; data is the sticking point.
4/14/05 Ballard Helps Power the Future: Residential Fuel Cell Delivery Ceremony Held at the Japanese Prime Minister's Official Residence
4/14/05 Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) Development Platform Demonstrated by Fideris Inc. and HTceramix SA Turnkey system reduces barrier to entry to financially promising SOFC development field
4/14/05 Jadoo to Unveil Latest NABII Fuel Cell Power System at NAB2005 Company Enhances Product Line and Plans Expansion
4/14/05 UK: Webasto plans fuel cell for 2008 just-auto.com
4/14/05 Motorbikes Ride High on Hydrogen They make an easier match with fuel-cell technology than cars. And one model, the ENV, may be on the road as soon as next year BusinessWeek
4/13/05 States get into the driver's seat of fuel-cell development USA Today
4/13/05 Researcher Seeks Fuel Cell Finesse "Serendipity led Seth Lerner from building a Formula race car to building a fuel cell as part of his graduate program at Kettering." AScribe
4/12/05 CMR Fuel Cells selected for prestigious Red Herring’s Top 100
4/13/05 No fuel like an old fuel Portable fuel cells will be here next year, as they will have been every year since 1995. They're finally running out of time ZDNet UK
4/13/05 Delphi announces new on-board diesel reformer system for Euro V1-compliant truck engines Auto Industry
4/13/05 New Developments in the Military Sector Fuel Cell Today
4/13/05 Millennium Cell Awarded Five-Year, $3 Million Contract from U.S. Department of Energy
4/13/05 Energy Developer increases power output "CFCL has nearly doubled the power output per fuel cell from 3 to 5.5 watts in 12 months . . ." Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited
4/13/05 UK Government opens market for efficient electricity generators Australian based fuel cell developer, Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, (ASX code CFU) welcomes UK Government policies to encourage the uptake of micro-CHP systems.
4/13/05 Reva to develop fuel cell cars for IOC pilot project "uel cell stacks to be supplied by Hydrogenics" Myiris.com
4/12/05 Toyota to Invest $150 Million for Michigan Center "will expand fuel-cell research at the Michigan center that began last year, focusing on metal alloys for use in the cells and batteries" Bloomberg
4/12/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. Announces Closing of Private Placement "910,250 units ("Units"), each Unit consisting of one common share ("Common Share") and one-half of one common share purchase warrant ("Warrant") at a price of $10.00 per Unit for gross proceeds of $3,641,000 . . ."
4/12/05 Fuel Cell Technologies Corporation engages agents for proposed private placement
4/12/05 Toho Gas Develops Low-Cost Way To Produce High-Pressure Hydrogen "produces 10-megapascal hydrogen by mixing high-pressure steam with ultrasmall particles of iron powder with a diameter of only several dozen nanometers. It requires less than 10% of the power needed to produce hydrogen by conventional methods, company sources said. . ." Nikkei
4/12/05 Hydrogen fuel cells power TV news crews Jadoo CNET
4/12/05 PolyFuel Breakthrough Makes High Performance Portable Fuel Cells Easier to Manufacture Hydrocarbon Membranes Can Now Be Easily Used in Fuel Cells Using Traditional Manufacturing Techniques PolyFuel
4/11/05 MDV's Fuel cell Debut "Along with co-investors, MDV has sunk $13 million into fuel-cell maker Jadoo Power Systems. . ." BusinessWeek
4/11/05 Army accepts keys to first fuel-cell truck US Army
4/11/05 IBM, Sanyo team on fuel cells for notebooks EE Times
4/11/05 Hydrogen Solar funding round oversubscribed FCT
4/11/05 IBM and SANYO Demonstrate Fuel Cell Prototype for ThinkPad Notebooks New Fuel Cell Technology From SANYO Has Potential to Power Standard IBM ThinkPad Notebooks for 8 Hours - DMFC IBM | PHOTO
4/11/05 Quantum Ships Hybrid Vehicles to U.S. Army
4/11/05 Sanyo, IBM to develop note PC fuel cell batteries "The IBM-Sanyo system is, in effect, a hybrid fuel cell system that combines the latest refillable fuel cell technology with existing, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. . . Sanyo micro direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) system is ready to run most ThinkPad models without altering the existing computer design . . . But IBM stopped short of saying when it expected to offer fuel cell batteries as standard commercial accessories. . ." Reuters
4/11/05 IdaTech Attends Hannover Fair 2005 Unveils Portable Power System "250 Watt . . . system operates on a methanol-water fuel that can be derived from renewable sources, with an onboard reformer " IdaTech, LLC
4/11/05 SAE World Congress: Engineers push fuel economy to front seat at auto summit As gas prices soar, researchers grapple with new technologies that improve mileage. Detroit News
4/11/05 Jay Leno Buys First Lithium I-Cell Zero-Emissions Vehicle "The cars lithium I-Cell, developed specifically for the vehicle, enables it to achieve more than 100 mph" Automobile.com
4/11/05 Heliocentris becomes a distributor of SFC Smart Fuel Cell and offers the first methanol fuel cell training package for post-secondary institutions
4/11/05 A Quiz for GM Bob Lutz's Comments Are an About-Face On the Importance of Hybrid Vehicles "Lutz's responses indicate that GM has done an intellectual 180 on the issue of hybrid gas-electric vehicles. Not long ago, GM executives expressed little enthusiasm for hybrid vehicles, and pooh-poohed the Toyota Prius as a money loser that made little contribution to saving fuel and distracted the industry from efforts to build cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells. . . GM recently announced efforts to mass-produce hybrid gas-electric SUVs by 2007. As for commercially viable fuel-cell cars? Maybe by 2010, Mr. Lutz says." Wall Street Journal
4/10/05 Auto firms recruit engineers Advances in fuel cells, computerization and hybrids spur need for skilled personnel. The Detroit News
4/9/05 Hydrogen village project good news for West Prince The Journal Pioneer
4/2005 Looking Towards The Hydrogen Horizon Automotive Design & Production
4/6/05 Dateline Stockgate Update: POSTPONED YET AGAIN! The Faulking Truth
4/9/05 How a hydrogen vehicle functions Knight Ridder
4/9/05 Honda develops hydrogen-powered car Knight Ridder
4/9/05 Ford also forced to slow down Automaker joins GM in revising expected earnings downward "indicated that future models and development of new technologies such as hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles will not be cut" Chicago Tribune
4/8/05 Ford Cuts 2005 Forecast, Won't Meet '06 Profit Target "said it estimates costs of what it considers one-time items to be 8 cents to 10 cents this year. Such costs include an "improvement plan'' at its Premier Automotive Group and investments in fuel-cell technology." Bloomberg
4/8/05 PACIFIC FUEL CELL CORP Files SEC form 10KSB, Annual Report sec.gov
4/8/05 Fuel Cells Go Niche While many expected fuel cells to reach consumer electronics first, many companies are coming out with fuel cells for industrial uses, recreational vehicles, and home generators. Jadoo, Nuvera, Smart Fuel Cell, MTI, Medis Red Herring
4/7/05 Solar Plane Planned for Around-the-World Flight "The loss of Helios was due to aerodynamic issues rather than any problem with the fuel cells or power output" National Geographic
4/8/05 HTC Hydrogen Technologies Corp. Presents at the United States National Hydrogen Association Conference in Washington, D.C.
4/8/05 The 2nd General Assembly of the European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform Report by Fuel Cell Today
4/8/05 Honda FCX Times of London
4/8/05 2004 Results for BWT "Sales in the Fuel Cell Membrane Technologies segment almost quadrupled through the supply of specialized membrane plants from EUR 0.7 to EUR 2.8 mio."
4/8/05 Japan's PM Koizumi gets fuel-cell power generators at his new home "One of the units at the prime minister's residence was developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and the other by a subsidiary of engineering firm Ebara Corp. [Ebara Ballard]" AFP
4/8/05 GM's Wild Gamble General Motors is betting that hydrogen-powered vehicles will one day make you forget about those billion-dollar losses it's racking up. "The company has delivered a carefully worded pledge: GM will develop a hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicle that could compete on cost with traditional vehicles-if it were to be built in high volumes-by 2010." Forbes (cover story in printed magazine, issue dated 4/25/05)
4/8/05 Auto firms developing emissions-free fuel cells Taipei Times
4/8/05 'Kyoto Effect' Boosts European Renewable Energy Company Stocks GreenBiz.com
4/8/05 New Melting Process for Hydrogen Storage Alloy Azom.com
4/7/05 China to Build US$241.6 MLN Hydrogen Fuel Battery Base Asia Pulse
4/7/05 Mazda launches first hydrogen filling stations in Japan The hydrogen filling station is located near Mazda's global headquarters in Hiroshima. This is the first filling station of its kind in the Chugoku region of western Japan. Mazda
4/7/05 HydrogenHighway.Com(SM) Is Fueling the Public Imagination HydrogenHighway
4/7/05 Fuel cells get small enough to power hand-held electronics new photo of Toshiba 100mw device Control Engineering
4/7/05 DWV innovation award for thesis on materials for fuel cells "Catalytical and electrochemical properties of perovskites containing Iron and Cobalt as cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells" FCT
3/31/05 Bus to the future: World s first hydrogen bus, on East Coast tour, stops in Montclair "The bus, created by California-based ISE Corp., was in the midst of a tour on route to the National Hydrogen Association conference in Washington, D.C." Montclair Times
4/7/05 Prime minister's new quarters a step up "equipped with . . . the world's first commercial fuel-cell units for household use, as well as solar energy and wind-power electricity generators." The Japan Times
4/7/05 Three Things to Know About Your ETF PBW, BLDP, PLUG Motley Fool
4/7/05 Fiat Seicento Hydrogen at 1st Montecarlo Rally for Fuel Cell and Hybrid Cars AutoSpectator
3/2005 World Energy Labs Joins Forces with Medis Technologies to Develop a Fuel Cell Application for The Interrogator™
4/7/05 Fuel cell diagnostic tool from WEL and Medis "[Medis] will use the hand-held diagnostic tool to conduct frequency response analysis during the manufacture and quality control processes for its own fuel cell products that will be released at the end of 2005" Batteries International
4/7/05 Advanced Solar Energy System to Provide Nearly 50% of Power for NY Science Center Northern Power Receives NYSERDA Grant for Solar Energy System at Black Rock Forest Site DESC
4/7/05 Hydrogen Can Lurk in Ice for Fuel Use "Purified water does not have a space to embed hydrogen but we found water combined with organic metals creates a nano-space to stably hoard hydrogen at about 0 degrees Celsius when water turns to ice" Korea Times
4/6/05 VCs Find the Energy to Tap New Markets "Investment in 2004 was up 40 percent in fuel cell companies, 62 percent in solar energy technology." Business 2.0
4/6/05 Voller Energy buys hydrogen reforming lab, KAT-Chem Fuel Cell Today
4/6/05 BLDP closes under $5 yahoo
4/5/05 More investors eye alternative energy USA Today
4/6/05 On-Site Continuous Hydrogen Generators Producing Solid Results, Cost Savings for Power Plants Paper at ASME 2005 Electric Power Conference in Chicago Proton Energy Systems, Inc.
4/6/06 Singapore Cos, Rolls Royce To Develop Fuel Cell Pwr Sys "consortium to invest US$100 million to develop a commercially viable power system . . . strong commercial potential in the solid oxide fuel cell being developed by RRFCS" Dow Jones
4/5/05 GM HydroGen3 Places First in Fuel Cell Class Hydrogen-powered Opel Zafira places third overall, following two hybrid cars. A total of 13 vehicles started the Rallye, five of which were powered by fuel cells. GM via EV World
4/5/05 Bikes come clean - hydrogen power for two wheels Intelligent Energy's ENV - PHOTOS! Independent Online
4/5/05 The GM Hydrogen3 high def video, QuickTime required endorphin.com
4/5/05 San Jose to test hydrogen-powered bus "As part of a joint trial program by VTA and SamTrans, the San Mateo County Transit District, three ZEBs will be rotated monthly to different routes over the next two years." BizJournals
4/5/05 MCFCs Under High Pressure Found To Boost Elec Output "The organization found that a module comprising 125 layers of cells generated electricity for about 500 hours under an environment of 12Pa of pressure, realizing 43% power-generating efficiency. The small module has an output of 180kw." Nikkei
4/5/05 Michigan to promote 'hydrogen highway' "The state is joining with the nonprofit NextEnergy to introduce a hydrogen highway in the southeastern region of the state. It would include six hydrogen fuel stations . . . " Oakland Press
4/5/05 Germany: MTU abandons the 'cool' fuel cell due to lack of interest "the marine industry is not yet ready for [PEM] fuel cell technology . . . research and development into fuel cell technology would continue for stationary systems" Informa Martime Trade and Transport via EmptyWells
4/5/05 Hybrid-car tinkerers scoff at no-plug-in rule New York Times via CNET
4/5/05 $200,000 Contract Fuels Hydrogen Research Albuquerque Journal
4/4/05 Engelhard Catalyst Technologies At Work At ChevronTexaco's First Hydrogen Energy Station
4/5/05 Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) Develops Molded Carbon / Resin Separator for Fuel Cell Investors.com
4/5/05 Jack Worthen Joins SatCon Electronics As Vice-President And General Manager
4/5/05 Protonex Raises $9 Million in Second Round - Portable Fuel Cell Company Adds Global Design/Manufacturing Partner "Parker Hannifin Corporation sees its financial investment in Protonex as a natural extension of the existing strategic partnership between the companies."
4/4/05 USFCC to Showcase Fuel Cell Cars, Technologyat Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Pavilion 2005 SAE World Congress – April 11-15, 2005, Detroit
4/4/05 Fort Belvoir to get new fuel-cell truck "General Motors will least the modified Chevrolet Silverado crew-cab trucks to the Defense Department for noncombat uses at Fort Belvoir and Camp Pendleton, California." WAVY.com
3/?/05 Ardour Capital Re-iterates Its Buy Ratings On FuelCell Energy, Mechanical Technology, And American Superconductor
4/4/05 Fly with Hydrogen "Just because the most economical way to produce hydrogen today is to start with natural gas doesn’t mean that will be the case tomorrow. Farmers and ranchers have proven that ethanol production from corn is practical. Through scientific commitment, it’s conceivable that economical hydrogen production from similar renewable fuels could be discovered within a couple years." Farm Bureau News
4/2/05 Battery makers form new firm "Principals of advanced battery developer ElectraStor LLC have formed a separate company that is working with a professor at a Canadian university to develop a simple way of storing hydrogen." metal hydrides The Berkshire Eagle
4/4/05 Greet the hydrogen economy "The whole notion of "efficiency" becomes moot when nuclear energy is used." National Post
4/4/05 Westport Announces New Funding for Hydrogen Bus Demonstration
4/4/05 Small tech firms start to think big T/J Technologies Detroit News
4/4/05 ISE Selects Cobasys NiMHax Packs for Development of U.S. Army Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) Demonstration Project
4/4/05 GM Affiliate To Transfer Fuel Cell Tech To Japanese Automakers "Quantum . . . has been negotiating with Japanese carmakers toward transferring technology on hydrogen tanks as early as 2006"
4/3/05 Hydrogen's fan club remains small Getting the public to embrace fuel-cell cars is an arduous task. The Morning Call
3/30/05 Avoid Oil Crisis with Renewables, Security Leaders Advise "Predicting a future crisis over oil supplies, 31 national security leaders are advising President George W. Bush to reduce U.S. consumption of foreign oil through "improved efficiency and the rapid substitution of advanced biomass, alcohol and other available alternative fuels. . . In a letter sent to the President and released Monday, the group urges "a major new initiative" that spends $1 billion for alternative fuel production in the next five years, and uses tax incentives to encourage the use of more efficient vehicles, including hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and flexible fuel vehicles." ENS | actual letter
4/2/05 ChevronTexaco is Creating New and Better Ways for the Distributed Production of Hydrogen Hydrogen Generation Process Presented at National Hydrogen Association Conference
4/2/05 Sleek fuel-cell pioneer debuts at area plant First-of-its-kind military pickup might generate thousands of jobs Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
3/21/05 Purdue Team To Float High-altitude Airship For Weather, Security "Engineers and scientists are working to develop solar cells and an advanced fuel cell to power the craft. . . The fuel cell is going to be a very large system. It will generate 500 kilowatts" Purdue University
4/2/05 US: New fuel cell drives around hydrogen economy roadblocks EmptyWells (UK)
4/1/05 Digital Gas Subsidiary Receives Funding Offer of $75 Million Dollars in Senior Debt "announces that it will shortly enter into negotiations to develop fuel cell systems for a commercial real estate development and management company seeking energy efficient and environmentally friendly power generation" (OTC Pink Sheets:DIGG)
4/1/05 General Motors rolls out world's first fuel-cell truck, keys go to U.S. army CP
4/1/05 Hydrogen-powered cars begin Vancouver test Ford Focus FCVs UPI
4/1/05 Test Driving the Honda FCX Fuel Cell Vehicle "Well ... test drive is stretching it. I had the opportunity to take Honda’s fuel cell-powered FCX around the block in D.C., during the ride and drive portion of yesterday’s Hydrogen Conference." American International Automobile Dealers Association
4/1/05 Clinton urges GM to make fuel cell auto in upstate NY Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
4/1/05 Colorado Fuel Cell Center Proposal Selected by the Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation
4/1/05 MEDIS TECHNOLOGIES LTD Files SEC form 8-K, Entry Material Agreement "On March 29, 2005, Medis El Ltd. (the "Subsidiary") . . . entered into a Personal Employment Contract (the "Agreement") with Zvi Rehavi, the Executive Vice President of the Registrant and the General Manager of the Subsidiary. The Agreement is for a one year term expiring on March 31, 2006. The Agreement, in addition to a base annual salary of $240,000, bonus, stock options and fringe benefits, provides for six months salary upon notification of resignation or dismissal and upon a change in ownership of the Subsidiary with subsequent dismissal by the new owners."
4/1/05 Stealth Hybrid Vehicle Built for Army Special Forces "Quantum Technologies spent four months building the Aggressor . . . " American International Automobile Dealers Association
4/1/05 GM Delivers First Fuel Cell Truck to U.S. Army Military sees day when all its vehicles would be fuel cell-powered "The modified Chevrolet Silverado is equipped with two 94 kW fuel cell stacks, capable of generating 188 kW and 317 foot-pounds of torque, or roughly the motor torque generated by GM's 5.3 liter V-8 engine. . . The U.S. Army will evaluate the experimental truck until July 2006 at an Army base in Ft. Belvoir, Va. . . ." GM
4/1/05 Hydrogen evokes '37 Thoughts of Hindenburg disturb public AP