Heal Earth Now » Fuel Cells http://healearthnow.com Heal Earth Now Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:51:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Fuel Cells..What is that? http://healearthnow.com/2006/12/27/fuel-cellswhat-is-that/ http://healearthnow.com/2006/12/27/fuel-cellswhat-is-that/#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:34:26 +0000 Heal Earth Now http://healearthnow.com/2006/12/27/fuel-cellswhat-is-that/ There has been some talk about fuel cell vehicles.  Fuel cell vehicles show a lot of promise because the by product of fuel cells are electricity and water.  The electricity is used to power the vehicle and the water can just be released as waste.  This would certainly cut down on pollution.

All in all it seems like a great deal.  The only problem is that fuel cell vehicles are powered by oxygen and pure hydrogen.  Oxygen is easy to find because it is in the air, but pure hydrogen is another story.   The cost of creating pure hydrogen is probably the biggest obstacle in the development of fuel cell vehicles.

I’m no fuel cell expert but there are several resources on the web that can describe fuel cells a lot better than I can.   Nova on Pbs.com has a 14 minute video that  explains fuel cells and fuel cell vehicles.   This a great resource to use to get started in learning about fuel cells.

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