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Get Your Hands on the Power

Posted April 18, 2008 8:27 AM

Mass-produced portable power devices are coming, reports Ceramic Industry magazine. Most notably, hand-held ceramic fuel cell systems that run off cheap and available bottled gas. What kind of impact will affordable and safe SOFCs bring, and where will they make a difference?

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04/19/2008 8:15 AM

This is reality and not a dream. Only thing is which technology will win and which will slowly die and phase out is the question. There are Fuel cell technology based on MEMS, Nano carbon and LSM ceramic tube and many others.

Most of these technologies are are still looking for high temperature materials. I was recently in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and India. Only at one place I observed adhesive materials based on YSZ, Nickel conductor, Platinum conductor and sealing glass paste by a start up company in Chennai. They showed me stability of the glass at 850C and a continuous use temperature up to 800C.

They claimed this is big but they are start up company and is supplying adhesive to high temperature usable adhesive and glasses. I am sure Fuel cell is coming and charge with wire and power out let will be history shortly. Only is which technology will lead this.

In my opinion LSM or MEMS will lead this. MEMS will be based on own cigarette lighter size and LSM will be little bigger but both are possible.

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