![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/-14880825811.jpg.aspx "Hydrogenics Gains Russian and Middle East Orders") 2010.8.17Hydrogenics Gains Russian and Middle East OrdersHydrogenics Corporation has announced that it has secured orders for electrolysers with customers in Russia and the Middle East. In Russia, Hydrogenics will supply a large industrial company in the city of Tomsk with a HySTAT unit for the production of light bulbs.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/-143746244ballard400x200.gif.aspx "Ballard and Plug Power Extend Supply Agreement") 2010.8.17Ballard and Plug Power Extend Supply AgreementPlug Power Ballard Power Systems have announced that the two companies have extended their existing supply agreement, effective immediately, through 2014. Ballard will remain the exclusive supplier of fuel cell stacks for Plug Power's full suite of GenDrive power units.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/1699441793logo_mcphy_home.gif.aspx "McPhy Energy - Eur 13.7m funding") 2010.8.17McPhy Energy - Eur 13.7m funding - McPhy Energy, a hydrogen storage specialist based in South East France, has won Eur 13.7m of funding from investment companies Sofinnova Partners, GimV and Amundi Private Equity Funds, together with additional funding from its first round funders.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/1817814452AbrunaFuelCell.jpg.aspx "New catalysts to cut CO poisoning of fuel cells") 2010.8.17New catalysts to cut CO poisoning of fuel cells - Scientists in the US and Japan have developed new nanoparticle catalysts which can reduce carbon monoxide poisoning of fuel cells.
The catalyst is made from tungsten added to nano particles of titanium dioxide. The catalyst is then coated with platinum to make the electrode.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/-707058467FirstEnergy.png.aspx "FirstEnergy buys Ballard 1 MW mobile fuel cell system") 2010.8.17FirstEnergy buys Ballard 1 MW mobile fuel cell systemCanadian-based Ballard Power Systems will shortly put a 1 MW mobile PEM fuel cell power plant into operation with utility company FirstEnergy in Ohio. The system will be housed in a large trailer, similar to a semi-tractor trailer, allowing it to be moved easily to different locations.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/181143224logo(28).jpg.aspx "South Africa- trials of fuel cell cellphone towers") 2010.8.17South Africa- trials of fuel cell cellphone towers - South African industrial gases company Afrox is running a trial of fuel cells to provide power for cell phone towers, according to an article on www.itweb.co.za.
Afrox (African Oxygen Ltd) is part of the Linde Group.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/-2125359362logo_jti.gif.aspx "European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking Issues €89.1M Call for Proposals for 2010") 2010.8.17European Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking Issues €89.1M Call for Proposals for 2010The European Commission Fuel Cells and Hydrogen (FCH) Joint Undertaking (JU) has published its 2010 Call for Proposals with a budget of €89.1 million (US$110 million). The JU publishes annual calls for proposals (from 2008-2013), on the basis of which funding is granted for research, technological development and demonstration projects.
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![[News_Image]](ShowImage/News_New_Image_Width/News_Image_Base/-311270558hydrogen-harvester.jpg.aspx "OriginOil Introduces Hydrogen Harvester") 2010.8.17OriginOil Introduces Hydrogen HarvesterOriginOil, Inc. has announced a new invention that generates hydrogen from living algae, providing an additional energy source from bioreactors. The new Hydrogen Harvester™ uses little or no external energy inputs, requires no sulfur deprivation or other “stressing” of the algae, and no genetic modification. The process employs viable, high growth rate, high oil content algae strains.
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