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Ushering in a Hydrogen Economy

December 15, 2011 by Charles Arthur
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Making It interview with Dr. Mustafa Hatipoğlu, managing director of the International Centre for Hydrogen Energy Technologies (ICHET), a UNIDO project supported by the Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. [read more]

Investment Tax Credits for Advanced Stationary Batteries

April 30, 2011 by James Greenberger
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If Congress is serious about reducing the burden of high petroleum prices on U.S. taxpayers, it must do what is necessary to build a market for an important petroleum replacement: advanced batteries. By simply extending to stationary advanced batteries the same investment tax credits that Congress has already made available to fuel cells (which are a promising but a much longer term solution to the problem of petroleum dependence), it would do much to help that market grow. [read more]

Top Energy Efficient Tax Credits

February 21, 2011 by Reginald Norris
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Improve the energy efficiency of your home and tax money at the same time with these energy efficiency tax credits: 1. Fuel CellsFuel cells are an incredibly exciting technology that many people do not know about. A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity. More technically, fuel cells use... [read more]

Bloom Energy’s "Electrons" Service an Interesting Spin on the Microgrid

January 26, 2011 by Tyler Hamilton
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I’ve been thinking a bit about Bloom Energy’s announcement last week that it wants to sell electricity as a service as a way to get its Bloom Box fuel cell into companies. The idea is that Bloom, as part of a service called Bloom Electrons, would sign 10-year power purchase agreements with the customer — i.e. the customer would agree to... [read more]

Urban renewables: Adobe installs a dozen Bloom fuel cells

September 28, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Edelman In The New York Times on Tuesday, I write about Adobe Systems putting a dozen Bloom Energy fuel cells on the roof of a parking garage at its downtown San Jose headquarters, the largest such installation in the United States: To green up its operations, Adobe Systems, the maker of the ubiquitous Flash media player, has... [read more]

Japan aims its home fuel cells at Europe

March 19, 2010 by Big Gav
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With interest in fuel cells being given a big boost by the Bloom Box, the BBC has an article on Japanese efforts to sell cells to Europe - Japan aims its home fuel cells at Europe. Following the success of a half-price subsidy for CO2-busting fuel-cell heat and energy generators for homes, Japan is now poised to ship its attention to... [read more]

California regulators reject utilities; fuel cell projects

March 10, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody In The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about California regulators’ preliminary decision to reject requests by two big utilities to install grid-connected fuel cells: While Google, Wal-Mart and other corporations have embraced fuel cells, California regulators have turned down requests from the state’s two... [read more]

A Day Late on the Bloom Box

March 1, 2010 by Robert Rapier
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I wasn't going to write anything on the Bloom Box, but people keep writing to ask what I think. My initial reactions were "What a lot of hype" and "I have seen this all before." I also wondered why it is that people keep falling for these kinds of stories. But fuel cells aren't my specialty, and as such I won't weigh in on the relative... [read more]

Fuel Cell Déjà Vu

February 25, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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A small start-up company just launched an amazing new product to much fanfare: a novel fuel cell device capable of running on natural gas and potentially small enough to fit in your basement and power your entire home, replacing the electricity you buy from the grid. That proposition looks so compelling that builders will start... [read more]

Where there be a Bloom boom?

February 24, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody In Wednesday’s New York Times, I have a story on Bloom Energy, which has revealed its fuel cell technology with much fanfare after remaining in stealth mode for eight years: SUNNYVALE, Calif. — A Silicon Valley company is claiming a breakthrough in a decades-old quest to develop fuel cells that can supply affordable... [read more]

The Economics of Bloom Energy's "Breakthrough" Fuel Cell

February 24, 2010 by Jesse Jenkins
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With all the hype today around the release of the "breakthrough" Bloom Energy fuel cell (which has become known as the "Bloom box" and is referred to by Bloom as an "Energy Server"), it's good to find a couple of posts looking at some real details: Todd Woody, writing for the NYTimes GreenInc blog, has some details on the design of the... [read more]

Green grocer: Fuel cell powers supermarket

January 28, 2010 by Todd Woody
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Photo: Golub Corporation In The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about a New York grocery store chain that has installed a low-emission fuel cell to power one of its supermarkets: A supermarket in Albany is among the first grocery stores in the country to install a fuel cell to supply cleaner, greener electricity along with heat... [read more]

Bloom Energy CEO: We Can Be the Gas Station for Transportation

October 10, 2009 by Big Gav
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earth2tech has a post on CHP / cogeneration company Bloom Energy, following a recent interview with CEO KR Sridhar - Bloom Energy CEO: We Can Be the Gas Station for Transportation. I liked Sridhar's take on the company's mission - "We fundamentally want to change the world. This is a mission about changing the world because energy is a... [read more]

An electricity generating desalination process ?

August 23, 2009 by Big Gav
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Cleantech.com has a post on research into using microbial fuel cells to desalinate water - Penn State discovers new electricity-generating desal process. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and China have discovered a new desalination process that has a triple cleantech benefit. The process cleans wastewater, generates... [read more]

Hooked on fuel cell car

July 27, 2009 by Doris de Guzman
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This article is published on ICIS Chemical Business's From Our Own Correspondent section, July 27, 2009, p.7After testing out the H-racer fuel cell toy car sent by BASF (see ICB 5/11/09, p.7) I got the chance to test out a real fuel cell vehicle on July 14 courtesy of General Motor's Chevy Equinox fuel cell demo car powered by Shell's... [read more]