[Vwdiesel] Those anti-SUV ads

[Harmon Seaver]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:37:44AM -0500, LBaird119 at aol.com wrote:
> >
>   As I understand it, fuel cells will not only run on H2 but on most any
> hydrocarbon.
> I'd heard scuttle that many of the fuel cells were simply being run on gas
> due to the convenience, existing network of stations and so on.  Kind of
> more of the same in that case.  Although they should be a more efficient
> converter of hydrocarbons into electricity than a generator/engine
> arrangement.
>      Loren

   AFAIK, the fuel cell itself only runs on hydrogen, but there are various
technologies to convert other fuels to hydrogen right on the spot. Check out
http://www.idatech.com/ for instance. While it's fairly easy to see how they do
this with natural gas, for instance (almost all hydrogen is currently made from
natural gas anyway), I'm not sure what happens when they try to do it with
diesel or gasoline. Seems like there would be a lot of polluting byproduct..
   At any rate, I haven't seen any fuel cells that run on anything but H2, that
is, without the fuel processor front end.


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