University of Connecticut Announces New Director for Global Fuel Cell Center
Prabhakar Singh, a researcher with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., has been named director of the University’s Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center, following an international search.

He will have a faculty appointment as the UTC Chair Professor of Fuel Cell Technology in the Department of Chemical, Materials, & Biomolecular Engineering.

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Fueling Enlightened Projects
"The time is now," says Harol Koyama, chief executive of IdaTech, at the Fuel Cell Seminar and Exposition in Phoenix. "The financial issues will go away in 18 months. We will see mass commercialization and consolidation will occur."

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GM Introduces Fuel-Cell Car for Tests in Japan
The Japanese unit of General Motors Corp. displayed on Monday a fuel-cell vehicle, the Chevrolet Equinox, for the first time in Japan as the troubled U.S. automaker accelerates efforts to develop environmentally friendly cars to stem falling sales.

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B.C. Fuel-Cell Pioneer Ballard Power Loses $15.5M US in Q3
Although it shipped 471 fuel-cell products in the quarter, 52 per cent more than a year ago, it was hurt by a drop in contract engineering work on automotive fuel cells and lower than expected sales of automotive carbon-fibre materials, it said.

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Solar-Hydrogen House Still a Work in Progress
“Two years from now, I’m going to be installing these things all over the world,” he said. “I’m going to be licensing out franchises. And I’m going to be working on improvements to the units every day.”

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Breaker, Breaker: Peterbilt's Fuel Cell APU Means No Idling
The Pete uses a solid oxide fuel-cell auxiliary power unit (or SOFC APU, an acronym only the Army could love) from Delphi that provides 800 watts of electricity through oxidation rather than combustion. During a test in July the truckmaker and Delphi found the fuel-cell unit could easily power the "hotel loads" -- AC, radio, TV, lights and, of course, the CB in a Peterbilt 386 for ten hours without firing up the engine. In other words, it's enough to keep you and your dog Fred cool and entertained while you rest up.

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