Comments on: Oorja's CEO Talks About The Future of Fuel Cells http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:23:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Daily Sprout http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9797 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:27:30 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9797 [...] Cell Oorja Fuels Up: Fuel cell startup Oorja Protonics (which we’ve covered here and here) has raised $500,000 according to a regulatory filing — [...]

]]> By: Fuel Cell Startup Oorja Scores Nissan Deal http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9796 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:36:42 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9796 [...] in 2005, Oorja has raised at least $21 million from Sequoia and DAG Ventures. CEO Sanjiv Malhotra told us early last year that the startup is targeting the battery market for fork lifts, pallet trucks and other material [...]

]]> By: rich http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9795 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:11:49 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9795 Methanol fuel cells obviously cannot produce enough power to propel a car, but might they be useful as a means of extending the range and reducing recharge time of a battery electric vehicle by trickle-charging the battery on a 24/7 basis? Just a thought….

]]> By: Nareshkumar Ugranarashimaiah http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9794 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:55:38 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9794 planning to launch in India . very much interesting . India is facing very acute power shortage need oorja like things

]]> By: Web http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9793 Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:32:29 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9793 Green energy is definitely the best solution in most cases. Technology like solar energy, wind power, fuel cells, zaps electric vehicles, EV hybrids, etc have come so far recently. Green energy even costs way less than oil and gas in many cases.

]]> By: Oorja Opens Up About Its Fuel Cells « Earth2Tech http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9792 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:02:19 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9792 [...] by Katie Fehrenbacher No Comments Posted March 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am in Startups When we interviewed Sanjiv Malhotra, CEO of fuel startup Oorja Protonics, last month, the company was still in stealth mode. Guess they [...]

]]> By: Oorja’s CEO Talks About The Future of <b>Fuel Cells</b> | Hydrogen Fuel Cell . Net http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9791 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:05:43 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9791 [...] We’ve been hearing about stealthy fuel cell startup Oorja Protonics, since word got out in mid-2006 that the company was one of Sequoia’s first cleantech investments. Well, after recently surveying Sequoia’s potential killer cleantech … Read More [...]

]]> By: Jim http://gigaom.com/cleantech/oorjas-ceo-talks-about-the-future-of-fuel-cells/#comment-9790 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:46:09 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=1307#comment-9790 5 kilowatts is not big enough for vehicle applications. And we don’t need another forklift power source; propane works just fine, as do batteries.

The main advantage of methanol is its liquid state, which in theory would be advantageous to vehicles. But without a applicable fuel cell format, that path is sunk. One could burn methanol in IC engines, but the automakers are all staying away from that, due to the toxicity of methanol. They do not consider methanol a viable future fuel at this point in time.

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