Ballard
launches fuel cell for consumer use
TheStar.com
September 27 2001
Ballard begins commercial production of emission-free 1.2 kilowatt
fuel cell modules designed to power anything from home offices
to lawn mowers.
Scientists
create first nanoscale hydrogen sensor
E4
Engineering September 24 2001
New technology will
make hydrogen use even safer.
IPCC
Work Essential To Tackling Global Warming
Cabinet
Office September 24 2001
IPCC - international panel of climate change
scientists - to play a key role in international attempts to find
an agreement on global warming.
Sellafield
shuts plants as N-waste builds up
Guardian
September 22 2001
Both giant nuclear fuel reprocessing plants in Cumbria, UK, shut
down yesterday after it became clear that volumes of high level
nuclear waste were reaching unacceptable levels.
Meacher sets new targets to improve air quality
Guardian
September 18 2001
New figures show particles of dust in the atmosphere caused by
vehicle exhausts is 10 times greater than previously thought.
Michael Meacher, the UK environment minister, to set new targets
for local authorities to improve air quality in towns and cities.
UK
signs up to nuclear power pact
Independent
September 16 2001
Britain joins major global project organised by the US government
to build nuclear power stations, despite ministers' claims that
they are neutral about the need for new reactors.
Seeing
the light about electricity: Switch on to solar power
Financial
Times September 15 2001
BP calculates that if every suitable roof in the UK had Solar
photovoltaic, or pv, which generates electricity directly from
light whatever the weather, we could generate more electricity
than is used at present as a nation.
Millennium
Cell's Hydrogen On Demand Technology to be Demonstrated With Ballard
Fuel Cells
Energy
Info Source September 07 2001
Millennium Cell Inc.will demonstrate it's Hydrogen on Demand
technology, used to safely generate and store hydrogen, with Ballard
fuel cells this week at the Grove Fuel Cell Conference in London.
U.
of Penn. Makes Diesel Fuel Cell
JSOnline
September 07 2001
Scientists at University
of Pennsylvania produce fuel cell that produces electricity from
de-sulfurized diesel fuel.
Hydrogen
Mini concept will be a gas
AutoWired
September 07 2001
BMW will unveil a hydrogen-powered Mini Cooper concept car at
Frankfurt this month.
Leisure
Centre Gets UK's First Fuel Cell System
E4
Engineering September 04 2001
Britain's first commercial fuel cell system, produced by International
Fuel Cells, will soon be powering a leisure centre in Woking,
southern England.
NEC
develops fuel cell for handhelds
CNN.com
September 03 2001
NEC Corp. develop a fuel cell for use in mobile devices.
Smog
clouds view from space station
CNN.com
August 31 2001
Astronauts say that the Earth is becoming less blue and more
blurred when viewed from space because of increased levels of
smog.
Hydrogen3
Fuel Cell Study Moves Closer To Production
Motoring
UK August 29 2001
Zafira-based fuel cell project from Vauxhall and parent company
General Motors will be unveiled at the Frankfurt International
Motor Show next month.
Detectable
hydrogen crucial to development of fuel-cell powered mobile devices
Electronics
Times August 28 2001
Researchers in Pennsylvania develop silicon chip able to produce
detectable traces of hydrogen. Their work may be the next stage
in the development of fuelcell-powered mobile devices.
Pollution
Slows Paris Road Speed
Guardian
August 25 2001
Authorities order motorists in Paris to reduce their speed by
12 mph after pollution levels rise, worsened by summer heat and
heavy traffic on the roads during holidays.
Photosynthesis
redirected to produce hydrogen as fuel
E4
Engineering August 24 2001
Researchers demonstrate that photosynthesis can be redirected
to produce hydrogen.
U.S.
offers e-carrot to curb pollution
SignOnSanDiego.com
August 22 2001
Los Angeles is one of five cities chosen
to pilot a scheme which rewards companies that allow employees
to work from home. The scheme aims to reduce the number of cars
on the road as well as their emissions.
Ford introduces prototype car with hydrogen-powered engine
Auto.com
August 22 2001
In a first step towards ZEV technology, Ford unveils the P2000
H2ICE - a gasoline engine retrofitted to run on clean-burning
hydrogen gas.
HYUNDAI'S HYDROGEN SANTA FE TAKES YOU FURTHER THAN EVER
Carsource
UK August 16 2001
Hyundai's new technology means its hydrogen fuel cell Santa Fe
can go 250 miles on a single tank, rivalling many petrol-engined
vehicles.
Solar
wing becomes highest flying plane
CNN.com
August 15 2001
Solar-powered plane soars to 96,500 feet shattering altitude
records.
Climate
change blows crops for medicines into test beds
New
Zealand Herald August 13 2001
Climate change in
New Zealand ushers in exciting new developments in agriculture.
The
fuel cell quest is on
E4
Engineering August 13 2001
Four new US government-industry projects to search for economically
viable fuelcells.
FUEL
OF THE FUTURE?
Automotive
Technology August 13 2001
BMW and Honda open the first hydrogen fueling stations in the
Los Angeles area.
Pollution
free energy from fuel cells
Times
of India August 13 2001
New fuel cell technology
gaining support in India.
Hydrogen - 'We're getting closer' says Vauxhall
AutoWired
August 09 2001
The Zafira-based fuel cell vehicle from GM and Vauxhall is very
close to market.
GM
Unveils Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Reuters
August 07 2001
General Motors Corp unveils a hydrogen fuel cell claimed to be
the answer to the burgeoning demand for electricity in homes and
businesses worldwide.
Panel Demands Global Warming Plan
Guardian
August 01 2001
Senators urge Bush's administration to have a plan to address
the climate change phenomenon by October for the next round of
international negotiations.
Greenpeace
backs clean nPower energy plan
Ananova
August 01 2001
Npower (retail arm of British energy utility Innogy Plc.) and
environmental campaigner Greenpeace announce that, from this week,
householders in the UK can opt to receive electricity bills under
a new "clean" energy brand called Juice.
Bush
Inaction Prompts Congress on Global Warming
Bloomberg.com
July 30 2001
Congress says that President George W. Bush's decision to withdraw
from the Kyoto global warming accord means the nation must act
on its own.
Used
grease becoming fuel
Las
Vegas Review Journal July 29 2001
Used grease (called biodiesel) from casino kitchens is fueling
school buses, street sweepers and dozens of government vehicles.
Rethinking
ethanol / Poor policies back a deserving fuel
Star
Tribune July 29 2001
Debate on whether
ethanol is an ideal substitute for gasoline.
Energy
Crisis Fuels New Trend
Guardian
July 28 2001
First power plant on Mojave tribal land to generate electricity
for the wholesale market.
700
bar hydrogen storage for fuel cell vehicles
E4
Engineering July 27 2001
Quantum Technologies WorldWide demonstrates hydrogen storage
tank that stores hydrogen at 10,000 psi (700 Bar) - dramatically
increasing the range of fuel cell mobile applications.
Climate
change 'will push up water bills'
Architects
Journal July 26 2001
Pamela Taylor, chief executive of Water UK, warns that water
bills may have to rise to pay for the effects of climate change.
Michael
McCarthy: Now world leaders have saved Kyoto, we can save the
world
Independent
July 25 2001
'The watering-down of the treaty is of microscopic significance
compared to the fact that a deal's done.'
Ballard,
Shell Hydrogen and Westcoast Energy Establish Private Capital
Joint Venture to Help Build Early Stage Fuel-Cell Centric Companies
Yahoo!Finance
July 25 2001
New company, Chrysalix, set to become global leader in building
new fuel cell
technology companies.
Shell
boosts renewable energy arm with acquisition
Financial
Times July 23 2001
Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo-Dutch oil company, boosts its fledgling
renewable energy arm with its first wind farm acquisition in the
US.
G8
plan for Africa pointless without renewable energy support
Greenpeace
July 22 2001
Greenpeace, WWF and ECA Watch, condemned the G8 Heads of Government
for refusing to adopt an action plan for the provision of clean,
renewable energy to the world's poor.
Hebrides to be Britain's green powerhouse
Independent
July 22 2001
Under a plan being considered by ministers, Britain's first community
run solely on "green energy" generated from wind and
wave power could be set up in the Outer Hebrides.
Iceland
moves naturally to a hydrogen economy
Guardian
July 18 2001
Iceland commits to becoming the world's first hydrogen economy.
Annan
Warns Climate Meeting: Earth at Risk
Reuters
July 13 2001
"Climate change is occurring. It's real. We have enough
evidence to know that it is happening..." - United Nations
Secretary-General, Kofi Annan
BMW
showcases cars that run on hydrogen
CNN.com
July 13 2001
BMW officials show
new, hydrogen-powered, luxury cars in California.
RMS Holds Scientific Workshop On Climate Change and Windstorm
Risk in Europe
Yahoo!
July 13 2001
Technical specialists to explore evidence of increased severe
windstorm activity across Western Europe.
Honda
sets up hydrogen fueling station near Los Angeles
Japan
Times July 12 2001
Honda opens hydrogen production and fueling station (using solar
power to extract hydrogen from water) near Los Angeles as part
of its research into renewable energy and to support its fuel-cell
vehicle development program.
Startech
Environmental demonstrates hydrogen vehicle
SolidWaste.com
July 12 2001
Startech Environmental Corp. successfully demonstrates its new
hydrogen vehicle - a white Ford pickup truck with a 4-cylinder
engine and a standard transmission.
Thames
Barrier in action against floods
Independent
July 08 2001
The Thames Barrier the world's largest moving flood defence
had to be shut against the sea 13 times between New Year's
Day and 13 March more than in its entire first decade of
operation.
Hydrogen
fuel production deal in the works
Pacific
Business News July 06 2001
The University of Hawaii, International Fuel Cells and the U.S.
Department of Defense set to research hydrogen fuel cell production
for use in commercial and military applications.
Hydrogen fuel cell project announced by Scandinavian energy companies
Power
Engineering International July 02 2001
Three major Scandinavian companies in the electric power industry
yesterday announced plans to work together in a project to further
develop hydrogen fuel cell technology.
SunLine
testing zero-emission fuel cell bus
Desertsun.com
July 02 2001
The Z-bus, fueled by compressed hydrogen gas, has been tested
for almost a year and is set to be tested on a wider scale in
2 years time.
Japan may ditch climate treaty
BBC News July
02 2001
Japan may not ratify the Kyoto protocol without American participation.
£ 500m windfarm planned off Arklow
Sunday Business Post July
01 2001
World's biggest windfarm planned for the coast of Arklow in Wicklow.