Mr. LINKOV: We're not going to see fuel cells for a number of years.
The Apollo space program relied on hydrogen fuel cells, which work by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms.
For example, the US Department of Defense has a major program in methanol-based fuel cells.
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And within 10 years, you'll see more hybrids and more movement towards fuel cells as well.
Allows generation of power from other sources (i.e. wave to electricity generators, fuel cells).
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Microturbines, and fuel cells in particular, are newer and have a greater opportunity for disruption.
Battery power is one alternative, but so are hydrogen fuel cells, which offer greater range.
But could it finally move fuel cells for stationary power generation a big step forward?
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General Motors, for example, has focused on fuel cells, Toyota on hybrids, DaimlerChrysler on diesels.
His conclusion is radical: Shift from oil to alternatives like fuel cells burning hydrogen.
Fuel cells are twice as efficient as combustion engines, and that is enough for Honda.
So you see the fuel cells here and they're all trying to do that.
For scandium just is the best thing to make solid oxide fuel cells out of.
And fuel cells could free its designers to let loose with imaginative cars and small trucks.
Fuel cells convert hydrogen, natural gas or other fuel into electricity through an electrochemical process.
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By the end of fiscal year 2011, ARRA funding had helped to install 830 fuel cells.
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They found some papers on coal-fired fuel cells but decided they probably wouldn't work.
His conclusion is radical: Shift from oil to such alternatives as fuel cells that burn hydrogen.
If fuel cells flop, GM will find it all the harder to defend its gas-guzzling SUVs.
This amount of power density far exceeds anything else done with microbial fuel cells.
Many of those that kept critical-communications chugging along despite the weather were equipped with fuel cells.
If cars were powered by fuel cells, noxious emissions and greenhouse gases would decline sharply.
But proponents say fuel cells require less of that fuel than gas-fired turbines and the like.
From which you can make biogas (methane) which can be used to power those fuel cells.
Micropower technologies, ranging from fuel cells to microturbines to small natural-gas plants, are taking off.
If fuel cells are really to catch on, however, governments must think about their own role.
Both Toshiba and NEC are expected to start selling their fuel cells later this year.
Another senior executive in charge of power-generation fuel cells has a background in American utilities.
The company currently has a visible pipeline for about 182 megawatts of fuel cells systems.
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Benson Lee has spent two decades developing working fuel cells at his company, Technology Management Inc.
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