Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hydrogen Fuel Cells coming closer for Psubs?

[David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>]

On Thursday, Dec 5, 2002, at 13:33 US/Central, Ian Roxborough wrote:

>
> Coleman Powermate/Ballard seem to have finally have
> there hydrogen fuel cell generator on sale:
>
> http://www.airgen.com/airgen.shtml
>
> It seems like it will generate 1000 Watts continuously for
> either 4 or 11 hours (depending on whether you have the big
> hydrogen cylinder or the little one).
>
> The cost is $6000 and I didn't seen the refueling cost
> anywhere either.  The dimensions are 27.3" x 15.8" x 19"
> which is reasonable for a small sub.


Coooool! Can't you get hydrogen cylinders from places that do welding 
gases? Maybe I imagined that. But it does have to be straight-up 
hydrogen, not methane or propane (or acetylene?) or other more popular 
and available fuel, like some ideas I'd heard of. Hm. Like 
hydrogen-fuelcell cars, that becomes a "they don't sell that around 
here" type of problem.




David
buchner@wcta.net
Osage, MN, USA
http://customer.wcta.net/buchner