Toshiba Claims Smallest Fuel Cell Yet

KingFishKingFish
edited June 2004 in Science & Tech
Toshiba has made further progress developing a direct methanol fuel cell for use in portable electronic devices, it says.
The Tokyo company has produced a prototype direct methanol fuel cell, or DMFC, that can fit inside gadgets such as digital music players and power them for 20 hours on 2 cubic centimeters of methanol, says Junichi Nagaki a spokesperson for Toshiba in Tokyo. It expects the DMFC to be ready for sale sometime in 2005, though the company did not indicate in which markets.
Source: PCWorld

Comments

  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited June 2004
    Humm, sorry if I sound dumb but I'm not sure why you would want to run your mp3 player useing a gas/methonal source.

    I don't see the advantages over regular battery power?

    "g"
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    no memory effects and potentially longer lasting than current Nimh/Liion battery options.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited June 2004
    Yea but way more expensive, and the batts are rechargeable. We need to be getting away from the oil based fuels anyway not figure out more things that will make us have to be even more dependant on middle east oil...

    "g"
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