Re: Fuel Cells

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Jim Green wrote:

> Can someone please tutor me re "fuel cells" --
>
> How do they work?
>
> Tell me in what way the process is "renewable"  -- Doesn't the energy of
> the so called fuel have to be increased in some way -- ie doesn't the likes
> of H2 and O2  have to be made so that later they can react? IE the net
> supply of electrical power is <0.

The current big thing in fuel cells is alcohol-powered laptop cells.  What
if you could run your laptop (or cellphone) on a bottle of methanol and
never had to recharge the batteries?  I haven't heard that anyone is
selling these yet, but here are a couple of companies working hard on such
things, and I occasionally see their stuff in Wired and in newspapers.


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