Category: Fuel Cells

The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) has called for lightweight, high-performance fuel cell stacks to be an integral part in the upcoming hydrogen transportation system. TreadStone’s LiteCell technology is answering this call. The LiteCell corrosion resistant metal plate technology allows fuel cell manufacturers to design and produce PEMFC stacks that are 40 to 50-percent […]

Upscale automobile manufacturer and one of the world’s leading aerospace engineers, Rolls-Royce is looking to commercialize fuel cells within the next 2 years. By 2010, Rolls-Royce wants to develop devices for the SOFC (solid-oxide fuel cell) market. These stationary devices will be able to generate clean energy for factories, hospitals and universities. They may also […]

Gecko Energy Technologies, a division of Millennium Cell, will be manufacturing fuel cells for the portable electronics market in South Carolina. The facility will be built on the University of South Carolina, Columbia research campus. In 2009, Gecko plans to manufacture over 10,000 fuel cell devices used by emergency workers. The product will provide lights […]

Let’s face it, fuel cells were very warm in 2007 and now they’re already hot in 2008. In October, I had talked about Horizon Fuel Cell and Millennium Cell teaming up to build a hydrogen-powered emergency generator for around $400. In a few days, the companies will be debuting their HydroPak emergency power generator at […]

It’s Halloween and the first completed installation of a home fuel cell installation in Texas has just been announced. This PEM fuel cell does not run on ghost-power, however (Who you gonna call?). But, it does run on hydrogen. In July of this year, I had talked about the Hydra Fuel Cell Corporation making its […]

At Japan’s CEATEC exhibition, Horizon Fuel Cell and Millennium Cell have teamed up to develop and show off the first 50 Watt fuel cell emergency power supply that is estimated to sell for under $400 to the consumer market. Horizon is supplying the fuel cell and licensing Millennium’s Hydrogen on Demand technology. The two companies […]

The Hydrogen Production Unit (HyPod) of the PURE Energy Centre in conjunction with Fuel Cell Scotland is creating a development of off-grid hydrogen homes in Unst, Shetland Islands. Last year I had talked about how PURE was developing a wind farm project on Unst, Scotland to turn wind energy into hydrogen, which would then be […]

Well, you know when something is coming of age and becoming popular when it moves into the Wal-Mart chain of retail stores. Fuel cells are doing just that. But, they are not for sale yet. Wal-Mart has just finished successfully testing several fuel cell powered pallet trucks in one of their Ohio facilities. Cellex and […]

PEM fuel cells take note that there is a new player in town and that is the platinum-free device developed by Daihatsu. Daihatsu Motors is the minicar division of Toyota and they have come up with a less costly fuel cell that runs on hydrazine hydrate (N2H4H2O). To the chemically-challenged this means that a combination […]

In Sunnyvale, California in the heart of Silicon Valley, major high-tech company Fujitsu has gone even higher tech by powering their facility with a hydrogen generator. The 200 kw UTC Power fuel cell provides approximately half the power to their data center providing reliable off-the-grid energy that is important to many tech companies concerned with […]