Archives: Fuel Cells

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

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 • Read More »

In the past few years, many of the residents of the Gulf Coast have been rocked by hurricanes, hunkering down in their homes as they lose power from the grid, sometime for days. Now that we’re heading into the full swing of another hurricane season, some residents are turning to hydrogen fuel cells for off-grid • Read More »

Florida Governor Charlie Crist is getting onboard the hydrogen bandwagon by installing a fuel cell in the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee. The 5 kw fuel cell will use natural gas reformed into hydrogen and produce electricity to power lights and appliances around the home. The governor’s mansion will also have a solar pool heating system • Read More »