Research at the University of Florida's fuel cell lab aims largely at making such fuel cell systems more efficient and less polluting and integrating them with vehicles, he said.
As well as two fuel-cell systems for vehicles (one for cars, another for buses and lorries), there are separate systems for large and small generators fridge-sized units running on natural gas to provide electricity for a building that is not attached to the grid.
The company can also lean on a trade group, the U.S. Fuel Cell Council, whose members range from specialty companies like Fuel Cell Energy and Ballard Power Systems to giants like General Electric and United Technologies.
One fuel-cell factory, however, could make propulsion systems for every size and shape of vehicle.
Furukawa Battery, the Tokyo-based supplier of power systems , is commercializing a magnesium fuel cell technology that generates electricity using salt water as an electrolyte.
One popular fuel cell stock that Redstone is avoiding: Ballard Power Systems (nasdaq: BLDP - news - people ), which focuses on the automotive market and is the biggest company in the fuel cell business.
Advances in fuel cell technologies are critical in supporting the integrated grid systems, with their peak-load management and mitigation capabilities, and without which integrating renewables into the energy mix will be a much more expensive and painful affair than often supposed.
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LOUGHBOROUGH, UK, 28th March 2011, Intelligent Energy, the global clean power systems company, has announced that the Fuel Cell Black Cabs have taken to the roads of London for the first time since being awarded Road Legal status by the UK Vehicle Certification Authority (VCA).
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Intelligent Energy is a global clean power systems company, with a range of leading fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
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Larry Moulthroup of Proton Energy Systems in Connecticut, which lent me my fuel-cell Toyota Highlander, offers some thoughts on how the water car might work.
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