Hydrogen Mirror Index 2001

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Fuel Cells

• The future and the plumbers
• Zevco is broke
• Joint effort to bring fuel cells in the market
• Caterpillar and FuelCell Energy
• RWE to  be a major player
• General Motors and Texaco go for the gasoline cell

• Congress for car suppliers held at Stuttgart
• Electrodes from carbon nanostructures in fuel cells
• Fuel cell running on coalbed methane
• Siemens builds up SOFC production near Pittsburgh
• MTU with new projects
• For the young: Fuel cell laboratory for teenagers
• France should hurry, MPs say
• Very small: everybody races to the phone cell
• Ballard reshuffles shares
• Power package from GM
• GM and around: new and old alliances

• Fuel cell network anniversary
• Model Building in Berlin
• New fuel cell center for Ulm
• Viessmann as well in fuel cell heating development
• H Power and GdF
• Roll off: cheap fuel cells
• General Motors shows new reformer

• Michelin installs fuel cell in tyre factory
• RWE and Nuvera cooperate
• Toyota stationary: fuel cells at zero speed
• Duisburg: new fuel cell research center
• Hospital cell: molten carbonate plant now running
• Stuttgart prepares for the new era of the car
• New type of fuel cell: just what might an AEMFC be?
• New alliance: Daimler and Mitsubishi make fuel cells

• Fuel Cells for all in Iceland
• Zetek opens fuel cell factory near Cologne
• PEM stationary: New project near Karlsruhe
• MTU sees good business opportunities
• Buderus enters the small fuel cell business
• Ford's expectations for fuel cell cars
• New developments in Japan
• Solid acid electrolyte as alternative to PEM

• Gasoline cell: BMW supplies on-board electrics from the gasoline tank
• Alliance GM/Toyota/Exxon for gasoline reformer
• Japan's experts advise the government on the way to the fuel cell
• RWE has great plans with fuel cells
• Sulzer Hexis to deliver to Baden-Württemberg
• What can fuel cells do? Just a matter of fantasy!

Energy and Climate

• No turnaround in CO₂ emissions
• Pacific: Rising tide

• He says that the the of the oil age is near - and he should know

• Inundations due to climate change

• Planting forests is no solution either against CO₂
• Weather forecast: warmer
• Accomplice: water vapour also drives the temperatures up

• Europe more and more dependent on oil imports
• New Superconductors

• More Gas: CO₂ emissions in Germany higher
• Record Temperature: 2000 was the warmest year in Germany

Politics

• DoE rediscovers hydrogen
• Energy report of the German ministry for economy
• Parliament hearing on future mobility
• Cogeneration law delayed

• Lower Saxony being pushed
• Baden-Wuerttemberg not quite sure what to do

• Cogeneration law on the way
• Canada invests in fuel cells
• Norway steers towards clean energy

• New York takes measures against CO₂ emissions
• German cogeneration law: fuel cell is included

• Permitted: German law for the support of renewable power complies with European rules
• Bad climate between USA and the rest of the world
• Correction

• New faces in USA

Further Reading

• Review papers on renewable energies in Nature

• Tomorrow’s Energy — Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
• Hydrogen Futures: Toward A Sustainable Energy System

• New magazine: Fuel Cells — From Fundamentals to Systems

And What Else Have We Found...

• Car batteries are dangerous

• Light from above

• Surgeons in fear of internal hydrogen

• At last: Butter - origin guaranteed

• High risk technology car battery

• Dangerous Gas: be careful, CO₂ is toxic!