Blogroll Review: Beers, Cars, & Responsibility
Less Filling?Back in the 80′s, there was a great movie called “Back to the Future.” It was about a car that could time travel. There was also something about a boy and scientist trying to change the...
View ArticleHonda’s FCX: Out-Priusing the Prius
by Richard T. Stuebi While the Toyota Prius is the current “must-have” of the “green” community, Honda (NYSE: HMC) is aiming to trump Toyota (NYSE: TM) in the eco-friendly car derby. Recently, Honda...
View ArticlePlugging Along
by Richard T. Stuebi It has long been axiomatic that fuel cells are years away from being commercially available: a technology that is not yet a product. For a brief shining moment in 2000, fuel cells...
View ArticleMicro Fuel Cell Killer – What’s Next?
About 4 or 5 years ago micro fuel cells were quite a hot topic in cleantech. They were going to power our laptops, cell phones, PDAs, blackberries, hand held multimedia devices, etc. The story ran like...
View ArticleFuel Cell 2007 Conference Highlights
By John Addison (6/19/07). Several hundred engineers, researchers, and managers shared fuel cell technology, trends, and market success at the Fuel Cell 2007 Conference. In some areas, fuel cells...
View ArticleRiding on Sunlight
By John Addison (9/20/07). Electric light rail is a popular way to whisk millions through cities with speed, ease, and minimal emissions. Per passenger mile, source-to-wheels emissions are far less...
View ArticleBio-fuel Cells
by Richard T. Stuebi Earlier this month, here in Ohio, the fuel cell developer Technology Management Inc. issued a press release that it had succesfully operated its 1 kw solid oxide fuel cell stack on...
View ArticleThe Micro Fuel Cell Promise
Earlier this year I did a Cleantech Blog article called Micro Fuel Cell Killer talking about the challenges that undermined the promise of micro fuel cells. Well, now we are looking at the other side...
View ArticleThe week in sustainable energy stocks….
Neal asked me if I would comment on the markets for sustainable energy stocks in the last week. It’s an area I follow closely so he hopes I will occasionally stumble across some nuggets. Let me start...
View ArticleThe week in sustainable energy stocks….
By Mark Henwood Neal says “keep going”. So let’s start with the big picture. Stocks were down – S&P, EAFA, emerging markets. Commodities advanced. The broad based ETN tracking the DJ AIG commodity...
View ArticleThe week in sustainable energy stocks (ending 3/7/08) ….
By Mark Henwood Continuing concerns with economic conditions drove all the broad stock indicators into negative territory for the week. With one expectation our sustainable energy indices followed suit...
View ArticleThe Week in Sustainable Energy Stocks (Week Ending 3/14)
Author: Mark Henwood The Dow traded in a 569 range this week reflecting negative credit market news and strong intervention by government institutions. Global results were mixed with EAFA advancing and...
View ArticleOnly Renewable Electricity Stocks Advance (Week Ending 4/11)
Author: Mark HenwoodSustainable energy stocks followed the broader markets down this week with only Renewable Electricity able to show a gain.The Solar index followed last week’s 14.5% advance with a...
View ArticleThe Best Fuel Cell Company You’ve Never Seen
I had a chat with Dr. Peter Podessor this week. He is the CEO of Smart Fuel Cells (XETRA: F3C.DE), the best fuel cell company that most Americans have never heard of. Cleantech Blog did an article on...
View ArticleOnly Renewables Gain (Week Ending 4/25) + Solar ETFs
Author: Mark Henwood Broad market indices were mixed this week and so were Camino’s PurePlay™ indices. The Solar index followed last week’s 7.0% gain with a small 0.2% decline. The index members were...
View ArticleSolar Rises 10.8%, Renewable Elec and Biofuels increase also (week ending 5/16)
Author: Mark Henwood Broad market indices (Emerging Markets, EAFA, S&P500) all rose significantly this week. Camino’s PurePlay™ indices, with the exception of Fuel Cells, were up. Commodities (DJP)...
View ArticleHydrogen: The Fuel of the Future. Will It Always Be Thus?
by Richard T. Stuebi For years, the utopian vision for powering humankind’s energy requirements has been based on hydrogen, produced by decomposing ever-abundant water (H2O), via renewable sources of...
View ArticleIntelligent Energy Raises £7 Million to Accelerate Commercialisation Plans in...
Loughborough UK, 14th April, 2011 – Intelligent Energy, the global clean power systems company, today announced it has recently completed a fundraising round of approximately £7 million ($11 million)...
View ArticleShell uses Hydrogen Pipeline for Fuel Cell Cars from Toyota, Honda and Mercedes
Shell Opens Third Hydrogen Station in Southern California Shell announced the opening of a new demonstration hydrogen station in Torrance, California, the first in the US to have hydrogen delivered to...
View ArticleGoing With The Flow
In recent months, I’ve come across more work being done in flow batteries than I’ve seen in the prior decade. I’ve been known in the past to say that fuel cells are kinda like fueled batteries. Well,...
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