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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:June 1, 2005

News and Events DOE Announces $64 Million in Hydrogen Research Projects DOE and USDA to Cooperate on Producing Hydrogen from Biomass DOE and USCAR Launch $70 Million Project for Lightweight Vehicles DOE Initiates Six Projects to Boost Vehicle Fuel Efficiency Seven Teams Qualify for the North American Solar Challenge Offshore Wind Power Plant Slated for Georgia’s CoastEnergy ConnectionsDOE to Offer Loan Guarantees for Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline News & EventsDOE Announces $64 Million in Hydrogen Research ProjectsDOE announced last week the selection of 70 hydrogen research and development projects that will receive $64 million in funding from the DOE Office of Science over the next three years. The projects will tackle five main research areas: materials for hydrogen storage; membranes for fuel cells and for separating hydrogen from other gases and purifying it; nanoscale catalysts for hydrogen production, storage, and use; production of hydrogen from solar energy; and hydrogen production processes that mimic or make use of biological processes that generate hydrogen. More than 50 research organizations in 25 states are participating in the projects, including industrial research laboratories, academic institutions, and DOE national laboratories. See the DOE press release and the full list of awardees (PDF 23 KB) on […]

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Wind Mills Power Mohawk Paper Mills

New York- based Mohawk Paper Mill is now the second largest user of wind power for manufacturing in the U.S. Paper manufacturers are not usually associated with progressive environmental policies — but Mohawk Paper Mills is not a ‘usual’ paper manufacturer. In an era of downsizing and production cuts, Mohawk Paper, a family-owned upstate New York producer of premium printing papers, has been quietly growing market share through product, process, and environmental innovation. The company is well-known for quality among professional designers and printers. (Mohawk papers have graced the covers of every hardcover U.S. edition of Harry Potter, for example.) On June 1, 2005, Mohawk Paper Mills will begin using 45 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of wind power annually to run its two mills in New York and a newly purchased facility in Ohio. With this annual consumption, Mohawk Paper will be a national leader in the use of wind power for manufacturing, second only to Johnson & Johnson, one of the largest consumers of electricity in the United States. Mohawk Paper Mills are the only paper mills in the U.S. to use wind energy to manufacture paper. Customers can now purchase Mohawk’s process-chlorine-free 100% recycled paper manufactured with wind […]

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Medis Receives Award for Innovative Fuel Cell Technologies

Medis Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:MDTL) has been honored with an award from research firm Frost & Sullivan, for Excellence in Technology in the field of microfuel cells (fuel technology category). Meeting the need for high performance, high efficiency microfuel cells, Medis formulated an inventive fuel cell technology that uses borohydride-based compositions as a fuel and an alkaline electrolyte. The Medis proprietary fuel mixture is non-toxic and non-flammable, making the technology commercially attractive. This fuel technology uses a liquid alkaline electrolyte with minimal amounts of noble metal loading, which brings down the cost. The technology eliminates the need for supplementary support components, used in other fuel cell technologies. The Medis microfuel cell is thus more compact and less costly than other microfuel cells.

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