Re: Fuel cells soon?

In article <0001HW.C444A7280005C940B01AD9AF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
junk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Ian Robinson" writes:

Fuel cells are in the frame to solve the mobile device battery
issue. At some stage...

Sony have unveiled what they are claiming is a commercial ready
design of a methanol powered unit. See:

<http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080502/151303/>

ISTR Toshiba demonstrated a meths-driven fuel cell battery a year
or two back. IIRC an early version but it worked.

The UKian firm of Porvair is involved in fuel cells, through a US
subsidiary making special permeable membranes, and have announced
good progress. Those would be the bigger kind.
--
Andrew Stephenson

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Relevant Pages

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