25% more efficient 'Portable' hydrogen fuel cell!
Battelle has developed and is marketing their Multipurpose Electric Power System (MEPS) fuel cell which is 25 percent more efficient than traditional internal combustion engine generator technology and can put out more than five kilowatts of power. The MEPS runs quietly, producing 20 litres (5.3 gallons) of usable water per day and runs on conventional fuels. Its design makes it ideal as an auxiliary power source on combat vehicles or as a stand-alone generator.Fuel cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices which produce electricity by reacting an external supply of hydrocarbon fuel and an oxident. While not a new technology, taking fuel cells out of the lab and into commercial production in a cost-effective fashion has proven to be difficult. The MEPS project was funded in part through $900,000 from the State of Ohio Department of Development.
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Chris 3:03PM (12/18/2006)
What is the overall efficiency though?
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Ron Fischer 3:34PM (12/18/2006)
Battelle previously developed a JP-8 (military grade diesel) reformer and hydrogen fuel cell system. Claimed they would make an improved version. This is probably it. Here is an announce of the last:
http://www.battelle.org/Environment/publications/EnvUpdates/Summer2006/article4.stm
The goal was to run HVAC and communications in a Bradley Fighting Vehicle while reducing heat/noise signature.
A key technology was a sulphur reduction system for the JP-8 to hydrogen reformer.
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Tim 3:42PM (12/18/2006)
I don't want to sound dumb, but how is this going to help break our addiction to fuels?
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Chris Nielsen 7:30PM (1/12/2007)
jcnielsen3@sbcglobal.net - send e-mail and I'll send you the video on Water Fuel. It is powering a car on one pint of water per hundred miles.
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Chris Nielsen 1:21AM (1/13/2007)
Fuel from water. 100 miles on one pint of water. video on request. jcnielsen3@sbcglobal.net
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CM 12:19AM (1/13/2007)
From #4 Chris Nelson: "Water Fuel. It is powering a car on one pint of water per hundred miles."
That is 1 pint water and about 6 gallons of gasoline per hundred miles. Water doesn't burn because it is ALREADY burned, water is not a fuel, and electrolysis wastes more energy than the trivial amount of hydrogen it makes can produce.
"water fuel" gimmicks are a scam to separate the gullible from their money.
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