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In the spirit of the holidays, here's the Thames and Kosmos Fuel Cell Car & Experiment Kit.
It has an electrolyzer to make hydrogen, a fuel cell car that uses the hydrogen to run across the floor, and other experiments you can run.
I guess at least a few companies are making a profit with fuel cells.
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Yi Cui, Craig S. Riddle, Xing Xie, and Stanford coworkers prepared a highly porous, conductive, biocompatible microbial fuel cell (MFC) anode material by intimately blending carbon nanotubes with a porous textile made of randomly intertwined 20-μm-diameter polyester fibers (ACS Article.) The new MFCs generated a maximum current density that is 157% higher and a maximum power density that is 68% higher than traditional MFCs. So it appears that these fuel cells are getting a little closer to the realm of practicality.
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A week ago the U.S. Department of Energy came out with a solicitation announcement for up to $74 million in funding to support the research and development of fuel cells for stationary and transportation applications. Why do they have 20% cost sharing for the Fuel Cells R&D topic area, when fuel cells are not yet commercial! I thought their job was to promote not-yet-commercial technologies, and get cost sharing when doing demonstrations?
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