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...search for alternative energy is nothing new, but the current crop of innovators is focusing on the long-elusive goal of making clean and sustainable power a mainstream commodity. For example, the fuel cell--which extracts electricity from the chemical reaction between oxygen and hydrogen--has been around for about 150 years, though its commercial deployment did not begin until the 1960s and then only as part of NASA spacecraft. Today this technology is coming down to Earth in places like Tokyo, where Japan's first hydrogen-fuel filling station opened in June; in nine European cities, from Stockholm...
...When hydrogen and oxygen molecules combine, the reaction produces heat and water. Fuel cells harness this reaction to generate electricity. With the cell-phone and gadget market in mind, Medis has developed a fuel cell with cheap components that generates little heat and effortlessly eliminates waste water without resorting to energy-gobbling pumps. One of the attractions of fuel cells is that they can be big enough to run a factory or small enough to fit under the hood of a car. Medis' innovation is a type of micro--fuel cell, a power source that's small enough to slip...
...Hydrogenics, based in Mississauga, Ont., is also working to bring the fuel cell to market, though its products are big enough to power a car--or a tank. Hydrogenics and General Motors (which owns about a quarter of the Canadian firm) are developing for the Army a fuel-cell-diesel hybrid engine for a new generation of 30,000 light tactical vehicles, which are used for battlefield surveillance and missile targeting. The military likes fuel cells because they can help free a vehicle from dependence on vulnerable supply lines, cut fuel consumption 20% and generate enough hydrogen to be self...
...just the military that's interested. General Motors' vice president of research and development, Larry Burns, says GM hopes to sell fuel-cell-powered cars by 2010. Deere & Co., the maker of farm and construction equipment, is working on a hydrogen-powered forklift. And the Canadian government has pulled Hydrogenics into a $6.1 million project to deliver a fuel-cell-powered transit bus to the streets of Winnipeg, Man., by March 2005. Hydrogenics co-founder Pierre Rivard says fuel cells probably won't go mainstream for another 5 to 15 years, but with GM's backing, the $128 million publicly...
...aimed at choosing the site for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's biggest and most ambitious fusion-energy project. Wearing the E.U.'s colors, Cadarache is competing against a Japanese team to host a plant that will attempt to replicate the sun's own energy, fusing hydrogen into helium to exploit a limitless and clean source of power. But locals are not looking as far as the stars: the ITER would inject some €10 billion into the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region over its 30-year life span, generating more than...