Are Fuel Cells The Answer
There is a lot of information about alternative energy in the news, the web, partys, the watercooler etc. Some of it is good reliable information, some of it is not. You hear a great deal about wind turbines and solar panels as alternative energy sources. However fuel cells are push to the side as a footnote or not mentioned at all.
It may be because not everyone understands fuel cells like they do wind and solar. They’re a pretty simple concept, the wind turns a turbine and the the sun hits an array of panels. There are more details to it but thats the jist of it. Fuel cells on the other hand are a little more complex. It is an electro-chemical device that takes a fuel like hydrogen and oxygen and converts it to electricity. Fuel cells were invented in 1839, so it’s definitly not new.
I’ve been researching fuel cells for years and have come to the conculsion that they may be a better choice over other types of alternative energy. That’s not to say that turbines and solar panels do not have there palace in the world. However fuels cells may be more practical because as long as there is a constant flow of fuel the fuel cell will function. Unlike the wind and sun the fuel to a fuel cell can be controlled. I’ll explain the in’s and out’s of fuel cells next time.
