thanks for the info, I am interested in acquiring a hydrogen fuel cell that can be converted to run on ethanol for our family farm project in the Horn of Africa and our future fishing and tourism project. any leads? selam, tom
> From: Phillip Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:00:22 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Ethanol runs mini hydogen fuel cells > > Thomas, Regarding ethanol and methanol. I spoke with a > gentlmen named David Devrie at Genesis Fuel Technology > involved in methanol and ethanol reformers. > http://www.genesisfueltech.com/index.html > > He said methanol is easier to "crack and catalyze" > than ethanol because it has only "one carbon" and the > ethanol as "two carbons". Therefore the methanol > requires less energy in the energy balance equation > versus ethanol. BUT there are lots of government > incentives to use ethanol. > > He said they make the "reformers that provide the > hydrogen" for the fuel cell. And you hook up the the > reformer to a fuel cell. Something like "middleware" > in the software business. But they plan to come out > with complete turnkey. But business is tough. > > > > --- Thomas Mountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> The Japanese have developed small hydrogen fuel >> cells using ethanol stored >> in a container based on the disposable cigarette >> lighter technology to power >> small appliances like laptop computers etc. >> Obviously, to be able to produce >> your own ethanol and run hydrogen fuel cells with it >> is a major advance in >> power production and sustainability, and should be >> the basis for a new >> transportation breakthrough in power plant >> technology. >> Has anyone heard anything more on this, I only saw a >> television documentary >> on the matter? >> selam, >> tom >> _______________________________________________ >> Biofuel mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel >> >> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >> http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >> Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): >> http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ >> > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): > http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
