Bloom Energy's breakthrough solid oxide
fuel cell technology generates clean, highly - efficient energy onsite from alternative energy sources.
Not exact matches
The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could use new
technologies, including microbe - powered
fuel cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other
fuels from wastewater to
generate all the energy they need, and then some.
Hydrogen
fuel cells, which expel only water and heat as waste, are an appealing way to
generate clean electricity, but the present
technology relies on expensive platinum catalysts.
I've often thought the most appropriate application of
fuel cell technology would be for windmills and solar installations to
generate hydrogen with a portion of their energy, which could be used in an adjacent stationary
fuel cell when they don't.
If we consider the pitiful $ 3 million awarded to FuelCell Energy for commercialisation of its reversible
fuel cell / electrolyser units, we can see why the
technology is not
generating the revenue of fossil energy
technologies.