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Author Re: Years of R&D efforts start to bear fruit: fuel cells - residential systems expected in thre
Eric Sears

2006-11-07, 5:25 pm

On 7 Nov 2006 09:33:37 -0800, "lkgeo1" <lkgeo1@aol.com> wrote:

>Years of R&D efforts start to bear fruit: fuel cells - residential
>systems expected in three years
>

Key words in this article -

> a three-year project


(Read - "its a long way off, probably 3 decades")

>that aims to develop


(Read - we aren't there yet and actually we really don't know when we
will be - but the usual "promises, promises")

>
>The development also covers solid oxide fuel cells and molten carbonate
>fuel cells.


(Hey - let's "cover " everything. Might as well include small portable
nuclear generators and cold fusion reactors :-) (They probably have
as much chance of success)
>
>Hydrogen-based fuel cells can reduce energy use and carbon dioxide
>emissions. They may be used to substitute for internal combustion
>engines and storage batteries in automobiles, microcells for mobile
>devices and distributed power sources.


That is - as long as we can find that inexhaustible supply of the
elusive hydrogen.
(PS - Nick's question has still never been answered ie Where will you
get the hydrogen?!!) Sigh!

Eric Sears.
>


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