Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powered Motorola Mobile Phone

Submitted by lalit on February 16, 2008 - 6:37pm.

Motorola and Angstrom Power a Fuel cell maker have developed a prototype mobile phone that runs on hydrogen fuel cell. A desktop fueling station is used to make hydrogen by cracking water molecules, hydrogen is then inserted into a metal hydride storage container on the phone. In the container, which is basically now the battery of the phone hydrogen molecules pass through a membrane, electrons are stripped away to run the phone. Methanol has been used to power fuel cell before but both technologies have their advantages and disadvantages. In Methanol fuel cells you just pour in methanol, you don’t have to produce it like you do for hydrogen fuel cell. But hydrogen is greener alternative, plus it is very likely that hydrogen will replace gas even in our cars.

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