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I am talking about the kind of fuel cells which can be used by wind and solar to store energy and distributed economically feasible. I don't know of anything l
by philipkglass 7y ago
I am talking about the kind of fuel cells which can be used by wind and solar to store energy and distributed economically feasible.
I don't know of anything like that either. Small fuel cells rely on expensive precious metal catalysts and large ones have too much capacity to be a good match for the distributed generation sector.
A technology that is commercially available but too expensive at present for large scale adoption, like fuel cells, is more mature than a technology that hasn't been demonstrated even in a cost-is-no-object context. That's why it's strange to hear fuel cells described as even further out than fusion power.
- ThomPete 7y agoAgain no. Fuel cells that can be used for wind and solar to store their energy isn't close at all it's not just cost it's also the physics.