Panasonic Unveils Notebook Fuel Cell

[xyster]

Panasonic announced it will showcase a new methanol fuel cell prototype this week that can output up to 20 W of power for 20hours

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[sgtbaker420]

So what does this really mean for the end user? We cant get fuel for the fuel cell that we cant get, to charge a device that we don't yet have?

I know I'm missing something here.

 

[Pei-chen]

So how do I charge a fuel cell battery? 7-Eleven?

 

[AndyYankee17]

so you're basically running your laptop with an engine? what the hell? so you want to use your laptop on a plane and you poison the flight crew with fumes?

 

[godmode]

20 hours of battery life sounds awsome but the real question here is how we gonna get our hands on methanol and how much will it will cost?

 

[tntom]

I hope eventually they standardize these things like batteries are. For example: If you have rechargeable AA batteries you can put them in any camera that take AA batteries. Or you can buy one Size "A" Fuel Cell and keep it through multiple generations of laptops.

 

[ceteras]

fuel cells do not degrade over time

I thought the useful lifespan of fuel cell stacks is currently well below that of conventional technologies.

 

[androticus]

Let's see... portable methanol fuel-cells have been promised for what... almost 10 years now? With "production models" always "less than 2 years" away, right????