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Nonequilibrium Chemovoltaics Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Nonequilibrium Chemovoltaics Hydrogen Fuel Cells has potentially of having a massive impact on the alternative energy systems market, and thus help-ing this nation to cope with the approaching energy crisis. Advocated is a possibility for the devel-opment of a new class of fuel cell devices, named nonequilibrium fuel cells, or chemovoltaics cells (terminology explained in below), featuring a range of advantages over the existing cell types.

Applications

• New type hydrogen fuel cells

Benefits

• Chemovoltaic cell converts chemical energy converted directly into electricity, without resorting to heat. • Essentially the author is proposing a “fuel cell, but with a solar cell morphology”. • Chemovoltaics cells could be manufactured as repetitive “comb” structures allowing a simple, but versatile batteries assembly

Reference #

DB107
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