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Fuel-cell manufacturer ClearEdge Power has raised $73.5 million in financing through the sale of new shares and the conversion of previously issued promissory notes. The company expects to use the funds to expand its customer base in key commercial markets, grow internationally and develop and commercialize new products. ClearEdge
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The US Department of Energy plans to invest nearly $7 million over five years to study cost issues related to fuel cells and hydrogen storage systems. The funds will go toward four independent analyses aimed at identifying ways to drive down production costs of transportation fuel cell systems, stationary fuel
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Eight military installations across the US will be getting fuel-cell backup power systems as part of a joint Department of Defense (DOD)/Department of Energy (DOE) partnership to test how such systems perform in real-world operations. The $6.6 million demonstration project is scheduled to run for five years. Working
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Bloom Energy, a California-based company whose fuel-cell technology was profiled in a recent “60 Minutes” broadcast today publicly launched its Bloom Energy Server. The solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology is designed to let business and home customers create their own electricity on site. While Bloom Energy has until now
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Making a fuel cell from sugar and weed killer sounds like something from an episode of “MacGyver,” which featured an ever-resourceful secret agent who could create life-saving gadgets from bits of twine and bubble gum … but it’s actually a real achievement by researchers at Brigham Young University (BYU). Chemistry
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Companies that can develop hydrogen and fuel-cell technology for low-carbon transport and power generation can now bid for a portion of £7.2 million in funding being offered by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). The competition is one of the measures for stimulating low-carbon technologies that were
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Loughborough-based clean power systems company Intelligent Energy said today that it’s raised $30 million (USD) at a material uplift in price received per ordinary share compared to previous funding rounds. The money raised from both existing and new investors will be used to provide for the next stage of
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A hydrogen-powered municipal street-cleaning vehicle — the first of its kind in the world — made its debut in Basel, Switzerland, last week. The “Bucher CityCat H2” was developed by the Swiss materials science organisation Empa, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Bucher Schoerling, Proton Motor, BRUSA Elektronik AG und Messer Schweiz. The
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Sweden’s Morphic Exergy Fuel Cells has signed a distribution agreement with Narbonne Associates of France for its Polaris 140 portable fuel cell. The order has a guaranteed minimum value of SEK 48 million for Exergy, and deliveries are set to begin in September. Polaris 140 is a compact portable
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This past weekend, Daimler took its F-CELL Roadster, a fuel cell-powered car, on a trip through Germany that covered part of the route taken by Bertha Benz during the first long-distance journey in the history of the automobile. In August 1888, Bertha Benz and her two sons made a journey
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Australia’s Ceramic Fuel Cells (CFCL) Limited says it’s achieved a world’s-best efficiency level of 60 percent (PDF) from its natural-gas-powered fuel-cell home appliances. The new efficiency level marks a 10 percent improvement over the company’s previous record, announced last December. “We have now achieved 60-percent efficiency
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A group of US researchers say they’ve developed a “one-pot” process for generating hydrogen fuel from cellulosic plant waste, water and a cocktail of enzymes. The “recipe” produces hydrogen gas that’s pure enough to power a fuel cell, says the team of scientists from Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge
