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Ballard Announces Shipment of 500th Methanol-Fuelled Telecom Backup Power System

Ballard Power Systems today announced shipment of its 500th methanol-fuelled telecom backup power system, since the Company expanded its product line in August 2012. Ballard is strongly positioned as the leader in the fuel cell sector for telecom backup power systems, offering both ElectraGen™-ME liquid fuelled methanol systems as well as ElectraGen™-H2 gaseous hydrogen fuelled systems.

12 Apr 2013

Global Fuel Cell Shipments Expected to Grow at More than 15% CAGR during 2013-2017

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Fuel Cell Market Outlook 2017

9 Apr 2013

New Technique to Produce Renewable Energy

A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source to the world.

4 Apr 2013

Anode Respiring Bacteria Can Produce Harvestable Energy

Bacteria are often associated with their disease-causing capacity or alternatively, with their role as normal residents of the human body, where they perform duties essential to health.

27 Mar 2013

Urgent Need for Zero-Emission Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles

Sandia National Laboratories reveals the breadth of its hydrogen fuel expertise in the recently published Hydrogen Storage Technology – Materials and Applications.

21 Mar 2013

President Obama’s Energy Security Trust Plan Includes Research on Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles

Paul Mutolo is a fuel cell chemist and director of external partnerships for the Energy Materials Center at Cornell University.

18 Mar 2013

Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe Procures Ballard ClearGen Fuel Cell System

Ballard Power Systems has announced the sale of a 175 kilowatt ClearGen™ distributed generation fuel cell system to the Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe of Humboldt County, California.

28 Feb 2013

Iron-Based Catalyst May Help Reduce Cost of Fuel Cells

To make fuel cells more economical, engineers want a fast and efficient iron-based molecule that splits hydrogen gas to make electricity. Online Feb. 17 at Nature Chemistry, researchers report such a catalyst. It is the first iron-based catalyst that converts hydrogen directly to electricity. The result moves chemists and engineers one step closer to widely affordable fuel cells.

18 Feb 2013

NREL Receives Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles to Advance Hydrogen Research

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently received four fuel cell hybrid vehicles - advanced (FCHV-adv) on loan from Toyota through a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement. These vehicles will help NREL enhance its research related to hydrogen fueling infrastructure, renewable hydrogen production, and vehicle performance.

From National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) 1 Feb 2013

Fraunhofer, UBC Partner to Improve Efficiency and Reliability of Fuel Cells

The transition from fossil fuels to sustainable and regenerative energy concepts is a challenge that sooner or later all industrial nations will be facing. Mastering this difficult task will require new technologies. Currently the green-energy industries in both Germany and Canada have a globally recognised leadership role.

17 Jan 2013