Washington (AFP) Nov 10, 2004 - Motorists in Washington will be able to say fill it with hydrogen at a service station opening Wednesday, although analysts say large-scale use of fuel cell vehicles will take years. Oil giant Shell said it opened the first hydrogen dispenser at a retail gasoline station to service a fleet of six fuel cell vehicles from General Motors.
Shanghai, China (SPX) Nov 08, 2004 - A Shanghai physics professor says he has the technology for the first magnetic train fully developed in China. Wei Lehan, 66, a professor at Shanghai Normal University, says the Magnetic Array Suspension (MAS) system he developed is the first in the nation with independent intellectual property rights.
University Park PA (SPX) Oct 28, 2004 - A new technology is being developed that can turn raw sewage into raw power. The device, called a microbial fuel cell, not only treats wastewater, but also provides a clean energy source with the potential for enormous financial savings, according to scientists at Pennsylvania State University.
Upton NY (SPX) Oct 28, 2004 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy¿s Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered another possible clue to the causes of high-temperature superconductivity, a phenomenon in which the electrical resistance of a material disappears below a certain temperature. In a superconducting compound, they found evidence of a rarely seen arrangement of holes ¿ locations where electrons are absent. The results appear in the October 28, 2004, issue of Nature.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2004 - For several years now the Department of Energy (DOE) has been urging the fuel cell community to solve a major problem in the design of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs): heat. Such fuel cells could someday provide reliable power for homes and industry, dramatically cutting greenhouse gas emissions as well as other pollutants.
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 22, 2004 - Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine, which last year emitted neutrons to enter the race to provide the world virtually unlimited electricity from, essentially, seawater, has received approval from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to proceed with a $61.7 million refurbishment. The project is called ZR, for Z-Refurbishment.
Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2004 - China rolled out a lot more than the red carpet to court Russian President Vladimir Putin on his state visit last week, but Putin stayed silent on the one thing China's leaders wanted above all else - his green light for a pipeline to feed Siberia's oil wealth to their energy-hungry industrial juggernaut.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 19, 2004 - GE Energy Monday announced that it has secured contracts to supply more than 750 megawatts of wind turbines for new 2004-2005 projects in the U.S., and has received commitments for another 750 megawatts. In total, the orders and commitments are valued at more than US$1.3 billion.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 18, 2004 - NASA is well known for developing technologies that improve our lives and make our jobs easier. In yet another example, the Ford Motor Company is harnessing the power of space technology by using NASA-pioneered fuel cells to propel the cars of tomorrow. In early October, Ford put one of its latest demonstration vehicles, a fuel cell-powered Focus, on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2004 - The proliferation of power-hungry portable electronic devices has ignited fresh interest in next-generation micro fuel cells that are compact, lightweight, and powerful with inherent capabilities to bridge the growing power gap.
Moscow (UPI) Oct 14, 2004 - President Vladimir Putin's current visit to China is dominated by energy politics. China, the world's seventh-largest economy and expanding rapidly, is energy hungry and in search of increased petroleum and natural imports.
Moscow (UPI) Oct 14, 2004 - Russia and Iran announced Thursday that the Islamic Republic's controversial nuclear power plant has been completed. Iran's Beshehr nuclear plant, estimated to have cost $800 million, has angered the United States, which is concerned that spent nuclear fuel could be used to construct weapons.
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2004 - In June's 'The effects of $80 oil' I discussed the effects on the U.S. and world economy of a large and sustained rise in the oil price. My extreme scenario of that time has become less extreme, with $42 oil becoming $53 oil in the intervening period. I thought it worth revisiting this now less unlikely scenario, to look at what such a development might do for our sources of energy.
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 07, 2004 - The U.S. Department of Energy's (USDOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has awarded two subcontracts for the fabrication of major components for the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX), now under construction at the Laboratory.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 04, 2004 - The most widely sold wind turbine in the megawatt-class for the global wind power industry has reached a major milestone. GE Energy announced today (September 30) that its 2,500th 1.5-megawatt machine has been installed as part of ENEL's Littigheddu project in Sardinia, Italy.
San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 30, 2004 - MR3 Systems, on May 5, 2004, announced that it had sold its first metals recovery system to Fluor Hanford (FH) and the United States Department of Energy for the removal of toxic chromium VI from the groundwater at Hanford Nuclear Reservation in south-central Washington State.
