Posted on 07/29/2014 10:19:37 AM PDT by shove_it
Cool, but seeing as GE gets so much money from US the Taxpayer the information on how to make this should be publically available via FOIA request...
I am not going to sigh up to read about the article.
Plasma Reformers have been producing large quantities of hydrogen and syngas for many years using garbage as fuel. I saw an operational unit in 2001.
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It will be a wonderful thing to see a breakthrough that gets the typical household off the grid. Research and development of this nature is worthy of taxpayer support.
At 65% efficiency, depending on what the minimum size is, it may be a more cost effective solution for office buildings to have a fuel cell than to buy electricity. It may also make feasible the replacement of diesel/electric locomotives with LNG/electric.
We’ve heard all this before - immediately coming to mind is cold fusion. And then there is “FREE” electricity from space. Ya right!!
I won’t sign up either but do wonder if this can be scaled down to a neighborhood size unit or eventually a single home unit. I despise GE and their head honcho Immelt for his corrupt dealings with Obama and their mercury bulb we are forced to use. Did own stock in the past but no more, can not support these crooks.
Thanks for that link.
I wonder if it can be scaled DOWN to fit in a Big Rig or automobile?..............
That’s the holy grail.
For those who worship Gaea..............
Sounds good, but why is my BS meter ringing? The big bugbear with fuel cells over at least 50 years has been electrode poisoning. I kind of doubt they have licked that problem with this high-temperature gizmo.
Use LED bulbs. No mercury, and they emit a warmer light than CFLs, IMO.
Anyone know how these low cost fuel cells would stack up against lithium ion batteries as far as costs/efficiency/etc for storing energy.
It looks like they’re too big for mobile transportation. But...—Since it looks like these machines require some electricity to run—it may be that they could be used to store energy from solar or wind facilities.
That’s a market that Musk would like to have with his lithium ion batteries—but those babies are expensive. These look much cheaper—except that they have to have a continuous supply of natural gas.
If the project isn’t worthy of private support, it isn’t worthy of government support. If the project is worthy of private support, the government should stay out of the way.
“Weve heard all this before - immediately coming to mind is cold fusion. And then there is FREE electricity from space. Ya right!!”
Yep. I’ve lost count over the decades of all of the miracle battery companies on the verge of going public if they could just get the “manufacturing” issues resolved. And then there’s all the miracle battery companies that actually did go public and then went bankrupt.
And then you have all of your miracle fuel cell breakthroughs. Killer bees, killer sunspots, the killer computer virus, the coffee crop will fail next year, the chocolate crop will fail next year: each of these runs in a two year news cycle on slow news days.
“Plasma Reformers”?
Pretty fancy name for “smoldering garbage in a barrel”.
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