Hi Jacques,
No, I don't know anything about fuel cells but I do live not too far from Ballard Power in Burnaby, and have been interested in seeing their progress.
I'm not sure you can just go about making your own can you?
Also, this is more of an Off-Topic thread. I wonder of the mods will move it.
Cal
No, I don't know anything about fuel cells but I do live not too far from Ballard Power in Burnaby, and have been interested in seeing their progress.
I'm not sure you can just go about making your own can you?
Also, this is more of an Off-Topic thread. I wonder of the mods will move it.
Cal
This is interesting, I've been looking at fuel cells as a project for a while now and I just pick up bits of information on the way.
I would imagine that we'll have a hard time finding copious information on the subject, though, I think with some careful experimentation and logic, it could come off.
I'd be interested to see what happens in this area.
I would imagine that we'll have a hard time finding copious information on the subject, though, I think with some careful experimentation and logic, it could come off.
I'd be interested to see what happens in this area.
http://www.goodideacreative.com/fuel_cell.html
How to DIY Fuel Cell.
For Your information.
Regards,
Pradit
How to DIY Fuel Cell.
For Your information.
Regards,
Pradit
The Phillip Hurley e-book is pretty good.
If you have no money then that book will be of no use to you at all. The design requires platinum as a catalyst ($$$$) and DuPont's Nafion as a proton exchange membrane (also $$$$).
You might be able to build a molten carbonate or phosphoric acid fuel cell though. Google is you friend, so is the USPTO patent database!
If you have no money then that book will be of no use to you at all. The design requires platinum as a catalyst ($$$$) and DuPont's Nafion as a proton exchange membrane (also $$$$).
You might be able to build a molten carbonate or phosphoric acid fuel cell though. Google is you friend, so is the USPTO patent database!
Easy: grab some zinc, copper and a salt to make conductive water. The zinc fuel oxidizes to Zn(OH)2 + H2 (gas bubbles) in exchange for electrochemical energy. It'll make about a volt per cell.
Fuel cells, as the term generally alludes to these days, involves the ionization potential of 2 H2 + O2 > 2 H2O, with weird stuff, catalysts and so on. They can be made at home with kits but making them worth something is a matter of many millions of dollars of ongoing research.
Tim
Fuel cells, as the term generally alludes to these days, involves the ionization potential of 2 H2 + O2 > 2 H2O, with weird stuff, catalysts and so on. They can be made at home with kits but making them worth something is a matter of many millions of dollars of ongoing research.
Tim
No, more than 1mA (assuming you make something larger than a dime!), and it IS a fuel cell. It uses ions and their potentials, and oxidizes a material in exchange for electrical energy.
Is that not a fuel cell?
And actually, it is a lemon battery - if you use lemon juice for the electrolyte. Except, it isn't a battery, a battery is an array (a "battery", you could say) of cells.
Tim
Is that not a fuel cell?
And actually, it is a lemon battery - if you use lemon juice for the electrolyte. Except, it isn't a battery, a battery is an array (a "battery", you could say) of cells.
Tim
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