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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup:May 4, 2005

News and Events Oregon and California Students Win Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge State Collaborative Offers $4.95 Million for Efficiency, Distributed Energy Long Island Power, FPL Energy Apply to Build an Offshore Wind Plant California Continues to Lead the Way with Large Solar Projects Arizona Passes, Colorado Vetoes Appliance Efficiency Standards Portland Aims for Gold with Revised Green Building Policy Energy ConnectionsDOE: Liquefied Natural Gas Imports Increased 29 Percent in 2004 News and EventsOregon and California Students Win Fuel Cell Model Car ChallengeHigh school students from Portland, Oregon, and San Jose, California, took top honors on Saturday at the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Model Car Challenge, part of DOE’s National Science Bowl competition. The team from the Woodrow Wilson High School of Portland took first place in the Grand Prix speed race, and the team from the Harker School of San Jose won the “King of the Hill” award by conquering a 20-degree incline with their hydrogen-powered model car. The two first-place teams will each receive $1,750 for their schools’ science departments. The Model Car Challenge is one of several hands-on activities in which the 63 National Science Bowl teams took part on Saturday. Eighteen teams, selected by lottery, used model […]

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US Risks Missing the Boat in Micro-Power Fuel Cells

The president of U.S.-based PolyFuel, Inc. warned last week that U.S. companies are in danger of completely missing the boat in micro-power fuel cells through a sheer lack of market awareness. Micro-power fuel cells are an emerging technology — the subject of considerable interest in Europe, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere in Asia — that are expected by technologists in those countries to supplant or replace batteries in increasingly power-hungry portable devices such as laptops and mobile phones. He made these remarks at a conference focused on Small Fuel Cells that took place last week in Washington, D.C. “We continue to be astonished that most thought and market leaders in the U.S. are indifferent to, or completely unaware of, the substantive and growing investment being made in Asia — and more recently in Europe — in the development of small, portable fuel cells, and the widespread awareness in those markets — even with the person on the street — of the technology and its promise,” said Jim Balcom, PolyFuel president and CEO. “It’s like all of us who care anything about this market domestically are in this room.” Micro-power fuel cells utilize replaceable fuel — typically methanol — that in the […]

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Whole Foods Joins Canadian Seafood Boycott to Save the Seals

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: WFMI) has joined the list of companies who have responded to The Humane Society of the United States’ call for a boycott of seafood from Canada until that country’s annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seals is permanently halted. The hunt is undeniably cruel — baby and juvenile seals are clubbed or shot to death primarily for their pelts — many are skinned while still alive and conscious. The U.S. has long banned imports of seal products, but the market for seal pelts in Europe provides an incentive for the sealers to take to the ice every spring to kill as many seals as they can. This year’s hunt, with over 300,000 seals slaughtered, was the largest killing of marine mammals in the world. Whole Foods Market is the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods with 167 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. The company joins Legal Sea Foods, Downeast Seafood, and Spectrum Organics in the United States, and Marks and Spencer in the United Kingdom in taking steps to reduce or end their Canadian seafood sales. In support of the seals, Whole Foods Market has agreed not to sell […]

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