The Power of the Future

In a world of climate change, fuel insecurity and escalating energy demands, it's time we started talking about how we're going to generate the power of the future.

We believe the fuel cell has the potential to be a catalyst; transforming the way the industries of today produce the energy for tomorrow.

AFC Energy is an innovative company with the potential to revolutionise the way we generate power. As the world's leading developer of fuel cell technology they have developed a working, low-cost, alkaline fuel cell; mixing hydrogen and air to produce clean, low-cost electricity with zero emissions. Focused on large-scale, industrial application AFC Energy's technology is fully-scalable to provide clean electricity on-demand.

To find out more about AFC Energy, please visit www.afcenergy.com

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[dakaha1]

ESTOY DESARROLLANDO UNA INVESTIGASION MUY COMPLETA SOBRE LAS AFC

[backacheache]

Whilst I welcome a more efficient fuel cell, in this video they come across as overselling it, for example as part of a solar storage system, why is better than a flow-battery? They need to explain, not just make statements, that said I welcome their work and hope it is implemented in products soon.

[ajain111]

@DrSnicklefritz @crescentrv Fuel cells and batteries can't exactly be compared as fuel cells produce power and batteries store power. To store power in terms of hydrogen, as David King here suggests is still a highly impractical solution today as hydrogen is a very light gas, you need a mammoth space to store it + its hazardous/risky. If you compress it and then store it, well then you will again need energy to do so, beating the whole purpose. The industry has yet to solve this problem!

[Sainter]

We shouldn't have to pay for our energy, str8 up!

[DrSnicklefritz]

@crescentrv Are we then not limited by the availability of suitable sites (not to mention environmental impact of damns...). Surely fuel cells or batteries gives us far more flexibility in locating the storage where the electricity is being produced or where it's needed. Agree about costs though- a viable solution has got to be efficient and cost effective.

[crescentrv]

fuel cells, the last I heard, were inefficient and expensive in comparison with batteries -- and batteries themselves are generally too expensive to use in most large-scale aplications. The most efficient way to store energy? Pump water uphill!

[MegaGreenGoddess]

I think this technology is great, why isn't this being used already!? We need to get off our backs, stop talking about it and put this into action :)