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Originally Posted by red-beard
Por, the problem for a fuel cell to use anything other than hydrogen, is the reformer. GE has been working for almost 20 YEARS through "Plug Power" to make a home fuel cell generator appliance. It was supposed to be available by 1999. Lots of my friends cycled through Plug. Nothing is on the market.
One of my neighbors, a PHD chemist who should know better, was trying to come up with a "Catalyst" which would split Hydrogen and Oxygen for less energy. I tried to explain how it violated the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
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Yeah, I understand we don't have gasoline driven fuel cells yet. But we do have practical fuel cells that use natural gas, I understand. It should be possible then to develop a gasoline driven fuel cells if enough resources and time is available. Seems to me that that should be the end game in automotive technology for quite some time to come.