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A Bid to Chill Thinking; Behind Joe Barton's Assault on Climate Scientists

by David Ignatius, July 22, 2005 In today’s partisan political climate, science has inevitably become a political football. But I can’t remember anything quite as nasty — or as politically skewed — as Rep. Joe Barton’s recent attack on scientists whose views on global warming he doesn’t like. Barton, an 11-term Republican from Texas, is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and one of the oil lobby’s best friends on Capitol Hill. Late last month he fired off letters to professor Michael Mann of the University of Virginia and two other scientists demanding information about what he claimed were “methodological flaws and data errors” in their studies of global warming. Barton’s letters to the scientists had a peremptory, when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife tone. Mann was told that within less than three weeks, he must list “all financial support you have received related to your research,” provide “the location of all data archives relating to each published study for which you were an author,” “provide all agreements relating to . . . underlying grants or funding,” and deliver similarly detailed information in five other categories. The scientists’ offense was that they had authored a controversial study that reported a sharp rise in […]

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Millennium Cell to Receive Funding to Advance Volume Manufacturing of Fuel Cartridges

Millennium Cell Inc. (NASDAQ:MCEL), a leading developer of hydrogen battery technology, announced that its proposal to develop a process that will enable volume manufacturing of fuel cartridges based on its proprietary technology has been selected by the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (“NCMS”) for contract award under a cross-industry collaborative partnership between NCMS and the U.S. Department of Energy. This program targets the development of manufacturing technologies for affordable hydrogen-powered energy systems including fuel cell components and hydrogen storage systems. Millennium Cell will lead a team which includes The Dow Chemical Company, EWI and NextEnergy, to develop critical manufacturing technology that will reduce the overall process and product costs of hydrogen storage technology for near-term implementation in portable power applications. NCMS funding towards the 15 month effort should begin in the third quarter. Adam P. Briggs, President of Millennium Cell, commented, “We look forward to working with an outstanding team to develop low cost manufacturing technology as we transition our hydrogen battery fuel cartridges from prototypes to commercially viable products.” The NCMS award will accelerate Millennium Cell’s joint development program with Dow to collaborate on the development and commercialization of portable fuel cell systems. Millennium Cell develops hydrogen battery technology […]

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