Solar Hydrogen Information Links

This page provides science, knowledge, pictures and links to sites which contain information you will need to know to create your own Solar Hydrogen Energy System.

Solar Array Information

www.SolarDepot.com
www.Solar-Electric.com
www.Siliconsolar.com
www.Mrsolar.com
www.otherpower.com
www.wholesalesolar.com

Companies that Manufacture Paint-on Solar Cells

The breakthrough required to really lower the cost and make Solar Hydrogen affordable.

General Electric, Schenectady, NY

Adapting methods developed for printable lighting panels to make solar cells; pushing for 10 percent energy efficiency in a practical cell.

Konarka Technologies, Lowell, MA

Manufacturing solar cells made of semiconductor particles; plans to market 5 percent efficient cells by 2005.

Nanosolar, Palo Alto, CA

Testing titanium compounds and conductive plastic that can be sprayed on surfaces to form solar cells; seeking 10 percent efficiency by late 2005.

Nanosys, Palo Alto, CA

Developing self-orienting nanoparticles in conductive plastic for photovoltaic coatings; plans to incorporate them into commercial roofing tiles in a few years.

Siemens, Erlangen, Germany

Researching buckyballs and conductive plastic for solar cells and photodetectors; seeks practical flexible cells by 2005.

STMicroelectronics, Geneva, Switzerland

Blending buckyballs with carbon-based molecules containing copper atoms to make solar cells; conducting research into efficiency and feasibility.

Companies that Sell:

MEAs (membrane electrode assemblies)

GDLs (gas diffusion layers)

Electro-Catalysts (platinum particles on carbon particles)

PEMs (Proton Exchange Membranes)

www.etek-inc.com
www.itm-power.com
www.polyfuel.com
www.hokuscientific.com
gti

PEMEAS Fuel Cell Technologies
CELTEC MEA, medium temperature.
www.pemeas.com/Celtec.e.htm

Golden Energy Fuel Cell Co., LTD. (BEIJING) www.gefc.com/home.php

W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
PRIMEA® Series 57 MEA for Automotive PEM.
www.gore.com/fuelcells/

Lydall
LyFlex® GDL
Lydall, Inc. Corporate Headquarters
One Colonial Road
P.O. Box 151
Manchester, Connecticut 06045-0151 U.S.A.
Tel: 860.646.1233 / Fax: 860.646.8847
info@lydall.com
www.lydallfiltration.com/products_catalog-detail.cfm

SEKISUI Chemical

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.

Universities, Companies and National Science Laboratories Engaged in PEM Research and Licensing

Clemson University
www.clemson.edu/research/ottSite/techs/nopatent/00133.htm

FuelCell Energy, Inc
3 Great Pasture Road
Danbury, CT 06813
Phone: (203) 825-6112 Fax: (203) 825-6273
Email: cyuh@fce.com
Ultra-Thin Composite Membrane-Electrode Assembly forHigh temperature PEM fuel cells.

Simon Fraser University www.sfu.ca/chenistry/faculty/Holdcroft/fuelcells.htm

Department of Materials Technology, NTNU, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Aaron.marshall@material.ntnu.no

CEA/Grenoble-Technological Research Division
www.cea.fr/

Umicore pMembrane MEAS
www.umicore.com/preciousmetalsgroup/fuelCells/pmembrain.htm

3M
3M Center, Building 201-1C-30
St Paul MN 55144-1000 USA
Fax: +1 800 810 8514
www.3M.com/fuelcells

Companies that Sell Hydrogen Production Equipment for Home, Small Business, and Refueling Stations

Avalence, LLC
www.avalence.com/products/default.asp

STUART ENERGY (Canada)
Pasadena , California Office
Stuart Energy, USA
3360 East Foothill Blvd.
Pasadena, CA , USA 91107-3111
Phone: 626-440-1962 Fax: 626-440-1963
Email: info@stuartenergy.com
www.stuartenergy.com

RRC Kurchatov Institute
Tel: (095) 196 9997 Fax: (095) 196 7262
Email: epv@ITERcoun.msk.SU www.kiae.ru/eng/str/technology/t23.html

Hamilton Sundstrand (a United Technologies Company) www.hsssi.com/Applications/Echem/Hydrogen/Metal.html

Southern Technology Applications Center (STAC)
One Progress Blvd, Suite 24
Alachua, Fl 32615
Phone: (904) 462-3913 Fax: (904) 462-3898
Email: esander@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu
www.state.fl.us

Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, Ltd.
2-2-1, Nagasaka, Yokosuka City 240-01, Japan