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To: ckilmer

Correct. Fuel cell is for electric generation, not electric storage.


32 posted on 07/29/2014 1:57:20 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Fuel cell is for electric generation, not electric storage.

So is a lithium-ion battery. Or any other type of battery. A fuel cell is really just another type of battery. All of them produce electricity electrochemically.

If you actually aim to store electricity as electricity, you want a capacitor. Recently, so-called supercapacitors have been developed, which are capable of storing useful amounts of energy, but they're starting to blur the line between electric and chemical storage, e.g., pseudocapacitors.

40 posted on 07/29/2014 5:08:42 PM PDT by cynwoody
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