On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:30:23 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
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I can't follow the cost issues on those PEM fuel cells. They've been used in
military and space applications since the mid-'60s. One time I hear tens of
thousands of dollars, and the next time they're building a scooter that's
"just a bit more expensive" than the gas-powered equivalent. Maybe that's
why they're saying production starts in 2015 -- they're trying to get the
cost down.
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FYI
http://www.dailytech.com/Is+the+Magi...ticle17752.htm
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So what is a Bloom Box exactly? Well, $700,000 to $800,000 will
buy you a "corporate sized" unit. Inside the box are a unique
kind of fuel cell consisting of ceramic disks coated with green
and black "inks". The inks somehow transform a stream of methane
(or other hydrocarbons) and oxygen into power, when the box heats
up to its operating temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius.
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also
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6231382.shtml
Unka George (George McDuffee)
...............................
The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley (1895-1972), British author.
The Go-Between, Prologue (1953).