jmelson
09-10-2010, 11:37 PM
Just saw a product blurb in a trade magazine about a new fuel cell technology.
You can look up www.redoxfuelcells.com, they only have one page up so far. It is clearly a laboratory stage thing at the moment. But, they claim to have a solid oxide fuel cell that can produce 20 KW per Liter of volume, will run off gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane or hydrogen, and is capable of running at much lower temperatures than previous solid fuel cells, below 650 C.
I haven't been closely following fuel cell developments, but this sounds like a major improvement in power density, and may make it possible to build them at much lower cost, due to easing requirements for very exotic high-temp materials.
Couple this with a decent battery and it could make a phenomenal new hybrid car
powertrain.
Jon
You can look up www.redoxfuelcells.com, they only have one page up so far. It is clearly a laboratory stage thing at the moment. But, they claim to have a solid oxide fuel cell that can produce 20 KW per Liter of volume, will run off gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane or hydrogen, and is capable of running at much lower temperatures than previous solid fuel cells, below 650 C.
I haven't been closely following fuel cell developments, but this sounds like a major improvement in power density, and may make it possible to build them at much lower cost, due to easing requirements for very exotic high-temp materials.
Couple this with a decent battery and it could make a phenomenal new hybrid car
powertrain.
Jon