Fuel cells: performance, efficiency and decline rates?
…leader in solid oxide fuel cells), and c20% is in Connecticut (home to Fuel Cell Energy, making solid oxide and molten carbonate fuel cells). How are today’s fuel cells powered?…
Bloom Energy: solid oxide fuel cell technology?
This data-file reviews Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. What surprised us most was a particularly candid overview of the degradation pathways of solid oxide fuel cells, a focus…
Fuel Cell Patents: twenty years of progress?
…in upon Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells, tabulating 120 patents into this reactor design, including descriptions of each patent and a categorization by company. An overview of different fuel cell types…
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells: what challenges?
…and the economics of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (2x most costly than conventional vehicles per km, note here) and hydrogen fuel cells for power generation (10x more costly, note here)….
Fuel Cell Power Project Economics
This data-file models the economics of constructing a new fuel-cell power plant; generating electricity from grey, blue or green hydrogen in a PEMFC, or from natural gas in an SOFC….
Electrochemistry: battery voltage and the Nernst Equation?
What determines the Voltage of an electrochemical cell, such as a lithium ion battery, redox flow battery, a hydrogen fuel cell, an electrolyser or an electrowinning plant? This note explains…
Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells: CCS plus Power? The Economics?
Molten Carbonate Fuel Cells could be extremely promising, generating electrical power from natural gas as an input, while also capturing CO2 from industrial flue gases through an electrochemical process. We…
Solid oxide fuel cells: what challenges?
This data-file reviews fifty patents into solid oxide fuel cells, filed by leading companies in the space in 2020, in order to understand the key challenges the industry is striving…
The green hydrogen economy: a summary?
…generating usable power in a fuel cell. Today’s end costs are very high, at 64c/kWh. Even by 2040-2050, our best case scenario is 14c/kWh, which would elevate average household electricity…
Vehicles: energy transition conclusions?
…into hydrogen trucks; and data-files into Goldilocks-like fuel cells and hydrogen fuelling stations. A summary of all of our hydrogen research is linked here. The data-file linked below summarizes all…