Archive for the 'Fuel Cells by Type' Category

Oorja Protonics update

As follow up to our posting of Orja Protonics of March 18 Oorja Protonics Emerges and Raises the Stakes hereunder is their latest press release of April 14 anouncing a demonstration :
Oorja Announces First Public Demonstration of Ultra-Powerful New Methanol Fuel Cell for Material Handling Vehicles
Oorja Protonics CEO to Unveil OorjaPacTM at NA2008 in Cleveland, [...]

Oorja Protonics emerges and raises the stakes

Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DFMC) that claim to be ten to a hundred times more powerful than the existant!
No, it doesn’t appear to be blue sky, this would be the fifth generation developed and deployed with industrial end users since 2005 as a self contained retrofits for material handling vehicles like pallet loaders, tuggers, and [...]

A major breakthrough in Fuel Cell Development? Violet Fuel Cell Stick

VioletTM Fuel Cell StickTM claims they have overcome the most significant obstacles to fuel cells while increasing output by almost an order of magnitude “‘We believe that this is the highest density, scalable fuel cell in the world, and we are confident that we can quickly go much higher” said co-founder of VioletTM Fuel Cell [...]

IdaTech Igen

IdaTech’s direct hydrogen-fueled ElectraGen™ family of backup power solutions is an economical alternative to traditional battery powered systems for markets such as telecommunications, utilities, public safety networks, and any application requiring high reliability and long lifetimes. IdaTech’s ElectraGen™ backup power systems are based on a modular and scalable design and are an ideal replacement for [...]

Methanol fuel cells

After grabbing headlines for years as the ultimate solution to world energy problems, the “hydrogen economy” has an emerging but lesser-known competitor called the “methanol economy,” according to an article in Chemical & Engineering News.
In the article, C&EN Associate Editor Jyllian Kemsley describes how methanol, an alcohol like ethanol, shows increasing promise as an alternative [...]