At 05:50 PM 9/21/2000 , you wrote:
>Thanks didn't know that. The idea seems kind of elegant to me a
>closed loop system with nothing lost.
It may be a closed system but there are plenty of losses. You cannot get
back from the hydrogen the amount of energy required to break it from the
oxygen in the first place. And there are losses in the fuel cell as it is
less that 40% efficient. That is better than a battery.
There are line losses, heat in the fuel cell and solar cells have problems
with heat.
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