The Ninth Grove Fuel Cell Symposium takes place between 4-6 October 2005 at the QEII Centre, London. siGEN appear to be specialists whose mission is to lead the field in the design and implementation of commercial Fuel Cell power solutions. There newsletter covers a range of applications and case studies for alternative energies. Fuel cells are still too expensive an option to use in Uninterruptible Power Supplies which continue to rely on Sealed Lead Acid technologies.

We just came across a new hand held battery tester called ‘The Interrogator Battery Analyzer”. It is the first ever handheld battery analysis system that determines the level of sulfation - the most common failure mechanism in lead acid batteries and can also determine the level of dry out in electrolyte starved systems. Fully non invasive The Interrogator looks like an interesting piece of kit that we will be testing shortly for use by Riello Galatrek engineers.