.jpg) This story courtesy of The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter, August 2004
 WHEC-15 Is Biggest H2 Event Yet; Major Car, Equipment Makers Show Products
YOKOHAMA - With just over 2000 participants, the 15th World Hydrogen Energy Conference, held here in this forward-looking city June 27-July 2, was the biggest yet in this series that began in the early 1970s.
CLARIFICATIONS & CORRECTIONS: To clarify, the second paragraph in the July 4 issue lead story, "GHW Presents Advanced Pressurized Alkaline Electrolyzer at HYFORUM," should say that the "electrolyzers operating successfully in Hamburg and Reykjavik were made by Hydro, GHW’s partner and parent, not by GHW." The third paragraph sentence about complexity, cost and susceptibility to failure should have referred to GHW’s 1999 450 kW, 30 bar electrolyzer at Munich airport. (Original source information did not distinguish between GHW and Hydro technologies).
* In the sixth paragraph of "DoE News: Non-Platinum Catalysts are Possible, DoE’s Annual H2 Review Meeting is Told," the penultimate sentence should read, "...... cobalt/palladium catalysts will be unstable in the acidic......."(instead of cadmium/platinum; typographical error in original DoE information). |
Ballard Reconfigures DaimlerChrysler Fuel Cell Alliance; Sells European Unit
VANCOUVER - If you go by the Gnomes of Wall Street’s instant judgments, Ballard Power Systems’ restructuring of its joint fuel cell operations with DaimlerChrysler and Ford last month was a bad sign, foreshadowing more gloom and doom - maybe a glidepath to oblivion.
Fast Forward: NHTSA Wants H2, Fuel Safety Program
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants to launch a four-year safety research program for hydrogen-powered fuel cell and internal combustion engine vehicles. A July 14 memorandum from Joseph N. Kanianthra, the agency’s associate administrator for vehicle research, says such a program is needed because "very little data are available concerning the safe performance" of hydrogen i.c. and fuel cell vehicles "because so few exist; they are typically prototypes handled by specially trained personnel."
India Unveils First Fuel Cell Passenger Car
BANGALORE, INDIA - India’s first prototype fuel cell-powered passenger car, a cute little city vehicle, made its debut in India’s capital New Delhi at the end of June.
Norway’s Utsira Island Launches Energy Independence via Wind, H2 Power
UTSIRA, NORWAY - Utsira, a tiny speck of an island off the southwestern coast of Norway, became one the first communities world wide last month to become energy independent via renewable energy from wind-generated hydrogen.
Ford Introduces European Hydrogen I.C. Engine Demonstrator
STUTTGART - Following in the footsteps of its earlier Dearborn-bred cousin, the "Hydrogen ICE Hybrid Research Vehicle," Ford Motor Co. rolled out a European hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine demonstrator here last month.
Tenneco Automotive is Part of Europe’s HyTRAN Fuel Cell Consortium
LAKE FOREST, IL/BRUSSELS - Tenneco Automotive, a $3.8 billion maker of emission and ride control equipment for cars and trucks, is the only U.S.-based company taking part in a startup multi-year European project that aims at developing a production-ready fuel cell power plant. |
