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Fuel-Cell Backup Power Under Your Desk

Posted by timothy on from the and-a-nikon-d1x-please dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "Just up this evening on the Coleman Powermate web site: This is the first commercial fuel cell product that I am aware of. Who wants one under their Christmas tree?" I just wish the fuel wasn't quite so expensive.

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  1. Great.... If you can afford it. by stuffman64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the website, it is $7495.99 for the generator and three fuel bottles. For the generator and nine bottles, the price jumps to $9995.99. Doing some basic math, the cost of a fuel comes out to about $416.66 per bottle, unless I am missing something major. Also, it claims the nine-bottle pack is a 24-hour supply. If you live on a non-Bill Gates budget, nobody can afford spending $3750 a day on fuel.

    Granted, this baby can supply a constant kilowatt of power. But doing the math, you are paying $156.25 per kilowatt-hour. This has to be the most ludicrisly expensive method of power generation I know. You may as well hire 10,000 hampsters to run on a wheel to supply your backup power. I'm sure they can generate just as much power, not to mention the only fuel required is cheap dried food and water. But you do have to clean up all those hampster pellets...

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  2. I need this to charge the batteries on my Ginger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What a gas... put a tow sled on Ginger, use it to carry the fuel cell and go coast to coast without stopping except for burgers at Checkers [Gotta eat] and potty breaks [Gotta poo after the burgers]... who'll be the first?

  3. Handicap access by 10.0.0.1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Perfect signwave electricity to protect sensitive electronics"

    This must be so that deaf people can use the electricity, too.

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