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The Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter, the voice of the international hydrogen community, has been published continuously since 1986. We cover the science, business, economics, and politics of hydrogen and fuel cells - nationally and internationally. Every month. At its spring 2005 annual meeting, the "National Hydrogen Association" honored editor Peter Hoffmann with the Robert M. Zweig Public Education Award for publishing "the oldest, continuously published news source of its kind," the second such honor (in 1997, NHA presented its Public Education Award to H&FCL). And the German Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Association (DWV) calls us the "best specialized publication in the field worldwide" on its German-language website. The Editor:
His articles on hydrogen energy have appeared in Business Week, The Washington Post, the Friends of the Earth magazine Not Man Apart, Germany's GEO, Britain’s Financial Times European Energy Report, Italy's Ambiente, and McGraw-Hill's Chemical Engineering and Chemical Week. He contributed the "hydrogen" entry to the 1986 New Book of Knowledge, a Grolier encyclopedia for young people. Peter and Sarah Hoffmann - she is H&FCL’s production manager - translated a seminal hydrogen energy book, Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier (Carl-Jochen Winter, Joachim Nitsch, editors - Springer Verlag, 1988, New York, Berlin), as well as several other books from German to English. Peter’s 1981 book, The Forever Fuel - The Story of Hydrogen, published by Westview Press, was called, "the book on the subject" by Kirkus Review. An extensively updated and revised version, Tomorrow’s Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet (Foreword by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-IA), was published in September 2001 by MIT Press; a soft-cover version came out in 2002. The November/December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs magazine said in its review, "this book has everything the reader needs to know about hydrogen -- its discovery, the numerous attempts to use it as a fuel, its (quite good) safety record, and the practical and economic difficulties that must be overcome if hydrogen is to realize its potential as a nonpolluting, non-carbon-emitting fuel." A New Scientist review said, "it clearly expounds the key issues surrounding hydrogen energy." And Chemical & Engineering News commented, "Peter Hoffmann discusses hydrogen and fuel cells - a key technology that is driving forward a hydrogen economy - with clarity and a light touch." Translated versions have been published in Korea and Italy. An Arab translation will be issued fairly soon by a Beirut publisher, with support from a major $10 billion Dubai-based foundation. Started in May 1986 with help from Canada's then-existing Hydrogen Industry Council, hydrogen research centers at Texas A&M, the Universities of Hawaii and Miami and the then-existing Clean Fuel Institute, Riverside, CA, the "Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter" has won subscribers all over the world. Until February 1995, it was called "The Hydrogen Letter." The name was changed to reflect the emergence of fuel cells as a lead technology. Subscribers include major international companies, among them several Fortune 500 firms; U.S. and foreign government agencies and ministries, think tanks, national laboratories and environmental groups; analysts, consultants and financial organizations; universities in North America and abroad; and other interested readers. As the longest-running newsletter covering this field we have been frequently interviewed by mainstream media. The “New York Times” and “USA Today” have quoted the editor, and we’ve appeared repeatedly on National Public Radio’s “Science Friday” program. Publications as diverse as “The New Yorker” and Britain’s “Financial Times” have picked our brains. The “Economist” has referenced us on its website. We carry lively “Opinion” pieces from some of the field’s most respected practitioners and thinkers, people like David Hart of Britain’s Imperial College’s TH Huxley School; Jay Laskin, a retired Teledyne Energy Systems executive and former National Hydrogen Association chairman; and Ulf Bossel, founder and organizer of the annual European Fuel Cell Forum in Lucerne, Switzerland. You’ll come face to face with provocative, sometimes controversial views that will challenge your thinking and that you won’t find anywhere else. We cover not only the science, business and economics but also the politics of hydrogen and fuel cells - nationally and internationally. We even carry the occasional book review. Our Subscribers
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Peter Hoffmann, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for a major business/technology news service, McGraw-Hill World News, has been writing about hydrogen energy since the first oil crisis of 1973. From the late'60s to the early'80s he was stationed in Bonn from where he also covered what was then communist Central Europe, eventually as deputy bureau chief. In between he was bureau chief for four years (1970-74) in Milan, Italy.