American Hydrogen Corp. gains rights to Ohio University fuel research

The first application for Botte's research will be in fuel for a hydrogen generator that produces electricity for homes and offices. Another ARSC subsidiary, Beaverton, Ore.-based HydraFuel Cell Corp., produces the generators and was looking for ways to make them affordable for consumers when it ran across Botte's research.

"We see the first sweet spot in the market being the introduction of the hydrogen economy in stationary applications, followed by mobile applications, and any place where power is intermittent, problematic and needs to be supported over an extended period of time," said Ben Schafer, president of American Hydrogen Corp. "The dreams are to make it possible for my grandchildren and their children to live in a world that has the energy necessary to continue to grow, to have the economy we enjoy today."

Botte is director of the university's Electrochemical Engineering Research Laboratory. In 2006, she earned the university's Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Outstanding Research Paper Award and the Martin E. and Ann D. White Research Award.

Ohio University Interim Vice President for Research James Rankin sees a bright future for Ohio University and the growth of its energy-related research. "We're calling it alternative energy, but maybe that word alternative is going away," he says. "It will be just clean-fuel technology."

ARSC (http://www.americansecurityresources.com) is a holding company focused on clean-energy companies and technologies, including high-volume, mass-producible hydrogen fuel cells and wind power. ARSC is a component of the Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index (http://www.ludlowcapital.com/indices).