This technology called ‘Fuel Cells’ is fast changing and could be one of the big paradigm shifters in how we provide energy in the years to come. To those outside this specialist field, many of the pitfalls and problems are unknown of course. But as any industry starts to move up the life cycle curve greater access is provided to such information.

Here is one such piece. Fuel cells are suspectible to carbon monoxide poisioning which causes a ‘bottleneck’ inside the device. I also did not realise that fuel cells operate with such high internal core temperatures. Nuvant Systems Inc now offers single fuel cells on-line through its e-commerce facility. Are we moving closer to a replacement for the good old sealed lead acid battery that dominates the uninterruptible power supply industry ?

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