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Yes and no

Larry J — 9/27/2001 3:17:49 PM (archived)

Yes, fuel cells are a form of fancy battery but no, they don't necessarily need power plants to produce the fuel for them. Ballard Corporation (http://www.ballard.com) has developed fuel cells that can extract hydrogen from methane, propane, and even gasoline. It'd take a lot of time and effort to develop a hydrogen infrastructure but there are things we can do in the interim.

On the other point, yes, we need nuclear power plants, just not for fuel cells.

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A view of where we are right now - ebnelson - 9/27/2001 1:53:44 PM
- Another attack very possible - bigger, too - DA - 9/28/2001 5:47:49 PM
- Damned if you do or don't - FrankC - 9/27/2001 2:32:46 PM
  - Good point - Larry J - 9/27/2001 3:14:41 PM
  - Meant to reply to Phil's post (nt) (n/t) - FrankC - 9/27/2001 2:40:52 PM
- Re: A view of where we are right now - phil - 9/27/2001 2:12:47 PM
  - Fuel cells are fancy batteries and need power plants - ebnelson - 9/27/2001 2:49:23 PM
    - Yes and no - Larry J - 9/27/2001 3:17:49 PM
      - Re: Yes and no - ebnelson - 9/27/2001 4:58:00 PM
      - Fuel cells - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2001 9:02:45 AM
        
        Re: Fuel cells - Larry J - 9/27/2001 9:22:34 AM
        
        Re: Fuel cells - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2001 9:31:53 AM
        
        Re: Fuel cells - Larry J - 9/27/2001 9:46:04 AM
        
        Re: Fuel cells - Tom Brosz - 9/27/2001 10:44:17 AM
        
        The beauty of the technology is scalability - Larry J - 9/28/2001 3:28:30 PM
  - Re: A view of where we are right now - Scott - 9/27/2001 2:37:47 PM

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