Fuel Cells to Power Your Gadgets Within a Year?
A company called MTI Micro claims that it is ready to start mass producing Fuel Cell prototypes for digital cameras in the next few months. In fact, they say they will be ready by 2009. The fuel cells are methanol-based, and should start showing up in laptops, cellphones, and digital cameras. “The main advantage of fuel cells is that they will last twice as long as a battery pack of the same size. … And the recharge time is almost nonexistent,” Lim told News.com. “Powering up a fuel cell-based phone only requires squirting in some new fuel or putting in a new cartridge.” What I am concerned about is the safety issue. After all, methanol is very flammable, right?
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