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Fuel-cell breakthrough could boost portable power
News Fuel-cell technology is very well established -- fuel cells are used on the space shuttle and a fuel-cell-powered car led the women's marathon at the Sydney Olympics -- but the engineering problems of miniaturising fuel cells for use in portable...
[December 11, 2003, 9:10]
Fuel Cell Maker Cuts Time-to-Market Up to 30 Percent With Business Intelligence Solution
White Papers Ballard Power Systems, a world leader in fuel cell development, needed to give its researchers faster, fuller insights into manufacturing and test processes and data, in order to cut time-to-market and increase competitiveness.
[May 1, 2007, 1:00]
3G handsets get prototype fuel cell
News Japanese mobile network operator NTT DoCoMo announced on Thursday that it has developed a prototype micro fuel cell that will recharge a 3G mobile phone. The micro fuel cell is aimed at meeting user demands for more convenient handsets with greater...
[September 30, 2004, 17:00]
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
News Toshiba announced on Friday that it has built what it claims is the smallest ever direct methanol fuel cell. The direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) measures 22mm by 56mm by 9.1mm (including the fuel tank), and when full will weigh 8.5g.
[June 25, 2004, 15:15]
Hitachi squeezes fuel cell into PDA
News Toshiba originally planned to produce a fuel cell in 2004, but delayed its plans by a year. Toshiba demonstrated a prototype fuel cell at this year's CeBIT electronics show in Germany, while NEC and Hitachi showed prototypes at the Nano Tech 2003...
[December 11, 2003, 10:35]
Toshiba delays commercial fuel cell
News At a demonstration of its latest fuel cell prototype for portable devices in Japan on Friday, Toshiba said the cells would not be commercially available until 2005 -- a year later than previously thought.
[October 3, 2003, 13:40]
Toshiba fires up methanol fuel cell
News Toshiba next week plans to exhibit a fuel cell prototype that it said has the potential to replace environmentally taxing, rechargeable batteries with clean-energy technology. The Japanese electronics company, which ranks among the top notebook...
[March 6, 2003, 8:39]
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
Talkback The first fuel cell was made in 1838, rather before the days of NASA I think. Besides the NASA ones used Hydrogen and Oxygen, not Methanol and Air, which the Japanese ones do.
[October 6, 2004, 16:52]
UltraCell ready to bring laptop fuel cell to market
News UltraCell's systems are fuelled by methanol, and include a reformer that converts it into hydrogen the fuel cell itself can use, Hill said. Fuel cells convert hydrogen and oxygen into water and electrical power, but technology and expense have kept...
[March 10, 2006, 15:10]
Antig confident of fuel cell success
News Taiwanese manufacturer Antig has claimed that its fuel cell product will be commercially deployed in notebook PCs in 2007. Speaking at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover last week, Antig said that it was already in negotiations with several laptop...
[March 14, 2006, 12:50]
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
Talkback Isn't Fuel Cell technology also supposed to remove the environmental damage element to batteries, is the device easily recyclable, will the facilities exist or have to be made (i.e.easy dismatalation, common material used for recycle process.
[June 25, 2004, 23:02]
IBM shows off fuel cell with mobile potential
News IBM and Sanyo have put together a prototype of a fuel cell system for ThinkPad notebooks. The methanol-based fuel cell is designed to work with most standard ThinkPad systems and could provide power for up to eight hours, the companies said Monday.
[April 12, 2005, 15:05]
Notebook fuel cell a reality this year?
News Taiwanese company Antig Technology has developed a compact prototype fuel cell integrated into a notebook PC. The company also showed off a prototype 12W fuel cell for notebook PCs and a prototype fuel cell charger for mobile phones.
[March 10, 2005, 17:00]
Smart Fuel Cell shows off alcoholic laptop power
News Munich-based Smart Fuel Cell GmbH has shown early production examples of a methanol-fuelled device capable of producing 40 watts of power and intended to provide electrical energy for laptop, printer and cellphone at the same time.
[April 23, 2002, 17:18]
UltraCell ready to bring laptop fuel cell to market
Talkback Since adventure is a necessity to some of us, to keep us alive; I find no fault in the article or process.Let's go for it an see what developes.Right now I can't use my Laptop for more than 15-20 mins, UNLESS it's plugged into 110.
[March 10, 2006, 18:10]
Notebook fuel cell a reality this year?
Talkback what about the environmental impact, HFC's must be made from an environmentally friendly source like wind or solar or else all of the claims that HFC's can aid the environment will be for nothing.
[March 10, 2005, 18:18]
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
Talkback exciting! where will the water generated in the process go? do ya have to open up the spit valve and blow it out? musical instrument reference :)
[June 25, 2004, 19:20]
Toshiba claims fuel cell breakthrough
Talkback Methane Cell vending machines - this is what a Toshiba spokesman said was one vision of the future. Instant power wherever you are
[June 27, 2004, 13:34]
Hitachi squeezes fuel cell into PDA
Talkback Re: "Hitachi and Tokai said they have created a prototype cartridge about the size of an AA battery that holds 50 cubic centimetres of methanol at a 20 percent concentration, and could power a PDA for six to eight hours.cc is a lot larget than a...
[December 11, 2003, 15:40]
Nanosys does Sharp fuel cell deal
News Japanese electronics conglomerate Sharp has inked a deal with nanotechnology specialist Nanosys to develop fuel cells for portable electronic devices. Fuel cells that can run MP3 players, mobile phones or even TVs on small amounts of methane are...
[January 19, 2005, 8:30]
