Hydrogen and Fuel Cells news roundup

Hydrogen to fuel green jets - Sunday Times reports (15 Mar 09) that Reaction Engines, based in Oxfordshire, has just secured a €1m (£926,000) grant from the European Space Agency (ESA) to advance its Sabre propulsion system.

Like a rocket engine, Sabre burns liquid hydrogen. But unlike a rocket, Sabre does not also require a supply of liquid oxygen to operate inside the Earth's atmosphere; instead it grabs, cools and compresses its own supply from the air itself

»  Sunday Times article

Cheap power from the river's mouth - New Scientist reports (25 Feb 09) that Dutch engineers attempt to prove that this isn't just a pipe dream, Veerman's team has done lab tests on a prototype salinity power generator, and are now planning to scale it up. Yet a group of Norwegian engineers have gone one stage further, with their own twist on salinity power.

»  New Scientist article