Hydrogen Mirror Index 1998

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Fuel Cells

• BMW fits its forklifts with fuel cells
• Fuel cell association founded in USA
• Field test for molten carbonate cell next year at Bielefeld
• Do not miss the revolution in your basement

• Direct methanol fuel cells: the direct way
• Fuel cell wedding
• Project at Cologne
• Emigration because of Siemens/Westinghouse merger
• New method for CO removal
• Small fuel cell for telephones for talking almost eternally
• Distribution of roles at DaimlerChrysler
• Ford's plans
• Opel presents prototype

• Opel opens research center
• Private cells for your home
• Bewag installs PEM cell
• Small is beautiful

3/98

• Saxony promotes fuel cells and other innovative technologies
• New partner for Ballard in Japan
• Just married: Daimler-Benz, Ballard, and Ford
• Controversial discussions at UBA

• Accumulator to be retired?
• Outlooks for fuel cells said to be bright
• Opel competes with Daimler & Co.
• Detroit in fuel cell fever
• Ford and Mobil support alternative fuels
• Hydrogen storage competitive after all?

• New alliance: Daimler & Ballard & Ford
• New alliance: Ballard & GEC Alsthom
• Meeting on electric cars
• First fuel cell plant in Brandenburg
• Public bath in Frankfurt/Main to be heated by fuel cell
• Bavaria keeps supporting hydrogen and fuel cells
• Pocket cells under development
• New information system on fuel cells

Energy and Climate

• Pacific islands are getting soaked
• Just how much would realistic gasoline prices be?

• Federal Environment Agency urges to introduce renewable energies
• New temperature record
• "The Alps in the Greenhouse"
• Agreement on less emissions from European cars

4/98

• Change of the guard

3/98

• Initiative of the German government for alternative fuels
• This is not the way to renewable energies

• What the figures about the oil reserves tell us and what not
• Global heating from above?

• Shell says: "5 DM/l gasoline? Why not?"
• Trends for cars of tomorrow
• Lock away your furs?

Politics

• Award for climate specialists
• Unheard of: new minister for economy has favorable opinion of hydrogen
• USA sign Kyoto protocol, but there is no risk of actions

• What shall we do now after having won the elections
• Norway's hydrogen association presents positions

• Admonition by the US vice president
• Bavaria supports hydrogen
• Not quite satisfactory answer by the federal government

3/98

• World Bank pours new wine into old bottles

2/98

• Hydrogen funding in Germany: Bavaria in front
• But Baden-Wuerttemberg follows close
• USA: Mr. Hydrogen speaks

• Clinton about climate
• Wissmann's objectives

Further Reading

• Die Klimaänderung — ein wissenschaftlicher Popanz?

• Solarer Wasserstoff — Technologie der Zukunft
• The Sourcebook for Hydrogen Applications
• International Directory of Hydrogen Energy & Fuel Cell Technology

3/98

• Der Zukunft verpflichtet

And What Else Have We Found...

• In search of a name for the fuel cell

4/98

• Pioneers: alternative vehicles 110 years ago

3/98

• No half job

• No experiments with gasoline cars, please
• El Niño is guilty!