--- Terry Blanton wrote: > This site:
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20080613/153276/ > says it uses a "membrane electrode": The company president is Hirasawa Kiyoshi. Googling that name, here are patents issued, mostly in unrelated fields (still looking) but some of them in automotive are assigned to Suzuki Motor company. Suzuki and General Motors have a strategic alliance- they have grown very rapidly in recent years. > "The basic power generation mechanism of the new > system is similar to > that of a normal fuel cell, which uses hydrogen as a > fuel. According > to Genepax, the main feature of the new system is > that it uses the > company's membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which > contains a material > capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and > oxygen through a > chemical reaction. That would indicate that the hydrogen generator and the fuel cell are physically combined into a single unit, no? Very interesting! Perhaps they pulse the fuel cell in reverse polarity (so called "tickler mode") and then collect a greater current going back. If done sequentially this could operate something like a variation of the old "Grove Cell" which was both a battery, fuel cell and H2 generator in one, depending on many variables. Very, very interesting! Jones
