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• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 154 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(06)71029-x

✦ Synopsis

I n Japan, Casio Computer Co has developed a chip-type component that it claims will enable the use of hydrogen PEM fuel cells for notebook computers that are 90% smaller than the direct methanol fuel cells which other firms are developing.

Direct hydrogen PEM fuel cells can be made smaller than direct methanol fuel cells, but the slow operation of the reformer, which extracts the hydrogen from the fuel, means that in normal circumstances starting up the computer can take a very long time.