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I'm not saying that hydrogen fuel cells are a new technology, I'm saying that the use of the shorthand "fuel cell" to refer to them by default is a comparativel
by flyingfences 7y ago
I'm not saying that hydrogen fuel cells are a new technology, I'm saying that the use of the shorthand "fuel cell" to refer to them by default is a comparatively recent development limited to certain circles.
- ncmncm 7y agoOriginally, only hydrogen fuel cells existed. If you had a fuel cell, it was by definition a hydrogen fuel cell, no qualification needed. Later people came up with other kinds that could catalyze more complex molecules. Calling an auxiliary gas tank a fuel cell has to have originated as some kind of cheesy marketing ploy, to make it sound like a more sophisticated thing than a gas can with baffles, and get more money for it.