Energy Conservation and Environmental Friendliness— The Incentive for Fuel Cell Development

Energy Conservation and Environmental Friendliness—the Incentive for Fuel Cell Development 

The fuel eell is a nineteenth eentuiy invention in the twentieth eentury it heeame the heart of an eleetroehemical power plant and power souree, whieh is now in a stage of advaneed technology development. Its first and only applieation since the early 1960s, has been as an auxiliary power souree for spaee flights by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). During the past decade, development for terrestrial (eivihan and defense) applieations has led to its commercialization and research on utilization in a variety of applications. Programs in the United States, Japan, Europe, and some other eoimtries are focused on the development of fuel cell power plant/power sources for (1) base-load, 

Modem Aspects of Electrochemistry, Number 34, edited by John O M. Bockris et al. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, 2001. 

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