Source: Fuel Cell Today
May 22, 2009. Next week marks the start of a 9-day hydrogen road tour from San Diego, California to Vancouver, British Columbia. The tour will stop at 28 cities along the route and will feature hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles from seven manufacturers: Daimler, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai-Kia, Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen. Moreover, the tour will also feature fuel cell transit buses and will use mobile hydrogen refuelling stations for the 1,700 mile journey.

Source: Yahoo News - AP
By Charles Babington, Associated Press Writer

May 27, 2009. Las Vegas, Nevada. USA. President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed solar energy as a cost saver for a major Air Force base, one stop on a Western trip devoted to raising political money and promoting his economic policies.
Obama's aides had mocked reporters for making a fuss over his first 100 days in office, but the president was eager to assess the first 100 days of his $787 billion economic stimulus package.
It has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs," he said, including "jobs building solar panels and wind turbines; making homes and buildings more energy-efficient."
The White House job claims are difficult to verify because they are based on estimates of how bad the economy might have been without the stimulus rather than actual employment data. The country has lost 1.3 million jobs since February, a figure the Obama administration says would have been far higher if not for the recovery effort.
Obama also announced more spending for renewable energy after touring a large field of solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas. The sun-powered cells provide a quarter of the base's power needs, Obama said, speaking in a large hangar warmed by the desert heat.
"That's the equivalent of powering about 13,200 homes during the day," he said, and it will save the Air Force nearly $1 million a year.
Obama said more than $467 million in stimulus money will be used "to expand and accelerate the development, deployment and use of geothermal and solar energy throughout the United States."
The president sandwiched the midday event between two political fundraisers: one on Tuesday night in Las Vegas for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and one set for Wednesday night in Los Angeles for the Democratic National Committee.
At Nellis, Obama addressed 400 people, including Air Force personnel, civilian workers and families living on the base.
The base's $100 million public-private solar power system covers 140 acres and generates more than 14 megawatts of electricity. As he departed the hangar, Obama bypassed his limousine and walked a quarter-mile along the tarmac to examine fighter jets, chatting with Air Force personnel as he went.

Source: Fuel Cell Today
May 28, 2009. Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Ener1 for lithium ion batteries to be installed in the transit agency's new order of 16 fuel cell buses. Twelve of the buses will be incorporated into AC Transit's operations as well as by a consortium of Bay Area transit operators in the California Air Resources Board's only Advanced Zero-Emission Bus Demonstration program. AC Transit expects delivery of its buses by June 2010.
The additional four buses will be purchased by UTC Power, one of the partners in the project, and will be operated by various transit agencies under the Federal Transit Administration's National Fuel Cell Bus Program.
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Renewable Energy From Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Water Energy And Alternative Fuel For Green Earth and Save From Global Warming
Source: Alternative Energy

Tuesday, May 26, 2009. Wind power is the fastest growing industry in the alternative energy sector.
Wind turbines generate clean and green power for us but they have certain precondition. One of it is the power unit has to be set up in strong wind area. But Green Energy Technologies has developed a brand new wind power generator known as the WindCube. It is smaller compared to the normal wind generator.
WindCube is specially designed to set up on the roof of a building in urban and rural areas. WindCube carries a 22 x 22 x 12 feet framework and its single unit can produce a maximum of 60kW of power. Mark L. Cironi, who is the president and founder of Green Energy Technologies, explains, "Building owners anywhere can consider being a part of the renewable energy picture. With WindCube, it's not necessary to have the wind of Kansas or Nebraska to become a generator of wind power. In states with excellent renewable energy incentives, moderate wind and high electric rates, the payback can be as little as three years."
The WindCube operates on the wind tunnel effect known in physics as the Bernoulli's Principle. The specialty of the WindCube is it captures and amplifies the wind which generates more power. How it works? As the wind passes through the WindCube covering, it becomes concentrated resulting in increased velocity that leads to more power generation. Due to amplification effect, WindCube can arrest the wind energy as low as 5 mph.
How does WindCube work? It creates power by moving its motor backwards with the help of an impeller. It eliminates the need for a gear box. Elimination of gearbox solves many problems such as maintenance and failures. It also lowers the cost of ownership. WindCubes potential consumers can be industrial companies, commercial office buildings, big-box retailers, college campuses, and electricity users in remote locations.
Roth Bros. Inc. (Youngstown, OH), which is a national energy management, HVAC and roofing services company, will render its services to WindCube customers with 24/7 monitoring of energy usage. They will accomplish it with the help of using an online remote system especially designed for the WindCube. Roth will also step in for installing the WindCube turbines at each customer's location.
They will do the needful in the area of initial site analysis to commissioning also. Roth can make available post-installation preventive maintenance and service on the units. Building owners, managers, and developers can also gain from the renewable energy credits from green building programs like LEED and
Green Globes.With Net metering in operation, Stimulus Bill tax credit facility can be availed.
Net metering is a simple, low-cost, and easily- manageable device that aims for the use of small scale wind energy systems. When a consumer generates more electricity than is required in a building with the help of an onsite generation system such as the WindCube, the existing electricity meter spins backward. This results in a credit to the electricity bill.
When we go for a new product we look for the ease of application and scalability. WindCube satisfies both of these criteria and presents one of the first viable opportunities for commercial distribution of wind-power generation facilities to residential markets and businesses as well .

Source: Fuel Cell Today
May 28, 2009. Bloom Energy has developed a solid oxide fuel system with a capacity of 100 kW and plans to demonstrate the technology at a site in east Tennessee. The firm already has a 5 kW installation at the University of Tennessee. The Electric Power Board, which will host the unit, expects delivery of the equipment "before the end of June."

Source: Fuel Cell Today
May 26, 2009. San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has received a grant of $1.7 million to construct a hydrogen filling station. The airport is negotiating with the Linde Group to build the fuelling station which has an estimated cost of at least $7 million and is slated to dispense 120 kilograms of hydrogen fuel per day and will serve both passenger cars as well as buses operated by local transit agencies. The SFO station would be the third hydrogen fuel station in the Bay Area after Oakland and Milpitas.

Source: Fuel Cell Today
May 27, 2009. The proposed fuel depot would take 3 percent of the yard waste already collected by the community's hauling contractor and would use that biomass to produce hydrogen, electricity and ethanol. To start, the facility will produce electricity to power electric hybrid vehicles and supply the municipality's energy grid with plans to expand production to hydrogen as fuel cell technology becomes commercially available.
According to local news sources, United States Representative Judy Biggert has request £2.51 million ($4 million) from the U.S. Department of Energy to fund the depot.