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Ont. — The Canadian Press Last updated on Monday, Jul. 13, 2009 02:43PM EDT P ent-up demand, along with low interest rates and greater affordability were behind the June rebound in residential housing sales in Canada and “a clear signal” that the sector...
Tags: Ballard Power Systems, fuel cells
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu recently announced that the Department of Energy reduced funding for fuel cell technology by more than $132 million and is effectively cutting the hydrogen fuel cell research and development program. Secretary Chu argues...
Tags: fuel cells, Department of Energy
What takes place inside a fuel cell is electrolysis in reverse Send a jolt of electric current through water—H 2 O, in chemical shorthand—and each water molecule splits into its components: two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen...What takes place inside...
Tags: fuel cells, hydrogen fuel
Britain-based Riversimple, a company founded by former race car driver Hugo Spowers and backed by Porsche scion Sebastian Piech, today unveiled the prototype for a two-seat, hydrogen powered car promising fuel consumption equivalent to 360 miles per gallon.
Tags: hydrogen cars, powered cars, fuel cells, London, Riversimple Urban Car, powered systems
What's very small, electric and feeds on human blood? Researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver have developed a tiny fuel cell that uses brewer's yeast feeding on the sugar in human blood to generate electricity. A staining substance...
Tags: human blood, fuel cells, Vancouver
Research Authority today announced five grants awarded as part of the Greater Columbia Fuel Cell Challenge. The challenge was established in 2006 to award grants for demonstration projects that educate the public on hydrogen fuel cells and to create partnerships...
Tags: fuel cells, Columbia, University of South Carolina, hydrogen fuel, USC, New Mazda, Mazda Premacy
2008 Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell car review; It works It’s the infrastructure, stupid. Well, maybe not stupid, but without reliable places to find hydrogen fuel, fuel cell vehicles based on hydrogen as a fuel aren’t feasible. Otherwise, says General...
Tags: fuel cells, car review
McCormick brought one of General Motors' hydrogen-powered Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell SUVs to town this week for the latest in the UA's sustainability seminar series. He said the powerful gas to run a fuel cell can be produced using electricity made by...
Tags: fuel cells, hydrogen fuel
Proponents of the four-day work week appear to have their work cut out for them, however. Tesei said not all employees would get to take advantage of the plan, especially those who work for the schools, the town-owned Nathaniel Witherell nursing home,...
Tags: police, fuel cells
Geoffrey Ballard died Aug. 2 in a Vancouver hospital from complications due to liver disease...Since 1983, Ballard Power Systems, the Burnaby, B.C.-based company that Ballard founded, has been instrumental in the development of hydrogen fuel cell systems...
Tags: mit, Geoff Ballard, energy, fuel cells, Ballard Power Systems, Vancouver