Archives: Fuel Cells

World’s Biggest Fuel Cell to Combat City’s Peak Power

August 12, 2010 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

The world’s largest fuel cell built by Ballard Power Systems will be moving to the Eastlake Plant of Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. The world’s biggest hydrogen fuel cell is rated at 1 megawatt and is called ClearGen, which is a utility scale generator. This will be a multi-year demonstration of the zero emissions capability of this • Read More »

Fuel Cell Jobs on the Rise, Really

February 27, 2009 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

There is an article on the CNN online website that has gotten me excited. It talks about the surge of green jobs imminent now that the Obama stimulus package has been approved. About $20 billion is going into creating green jobs, and some of those are in the fuel cell industry. According to John D. • Read More »

Tiny Fuel Cell Provides Promise

January 7, 2009 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

A tiny fuel cell just 3 mm across that will fit on one’s fingertip has been created by engineers at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. U of I engineers Saeed Moghaddam and Mark Shannon created a tiny fuel cell that has just four components. The fuel cell components include a water reservoir, a metal • Read More »

MIT Fuel Cell 50 Percent More Efficient

May 19, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a new methanol fuel cell that is 50-percent more efficient that other comparable FC’s. This direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC), according to MIT Professor Paula Hammond is cost-effective, highly tunable and has more output than a comparable material called Nafion. In fact, Hammond says the • Read More »

Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology

April 16, 2008 | By Kevin | No Comments | Filed in: Fuel Cells.

Hydrogen fuel cells have been around for decades now. NASA has used hydrogen fuel cells in manned spacecraft to provide onboard energy for the vehicle and drinking water for the astronauts. In 1966, the GM Electrovan was the first vehicle to use a hydrogen fuel cell to power the wheels. But, hydrogen fuel cells (often • Read More »