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Project shows maritime fuel cell generator can increase energy efficiency by up to 30% at part load; reliability and cost issues

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A recent project demonstrated a 100 kW fuel cell generator with 72 kg of hydrogen storage for marine applications. The generator was designed and built by Hydrogenics with safety and regulatory reviews by the Hydrogen Safety Panel, US Coast Guard, and the American Bureau of Shipping.

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Alcoa and Phinergy enter joint development agreement for high energy-density aluminum-air batteries

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However, parasitic hydrogen evolution caused by anode corrosion during the discharge process is a well-known obstacle to commercialization of such a system, because it not only causes additional consumption of the anode material but also increases the ohmic loss in the cell. kWh/kg of Al—second only to the Li-air battery (13.0

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