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Fuel Cells Promised For Next Year

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 16, 2003 @07:58AM from the how-about-a-fuel-cell-ogg-player dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article in today's New York Times, fuel cells for portable consumer electronic devices will start appearing next year. First for laptops, and later for smaller devices like cellphones. Among the interesting benefits of fuel cells over batteries is the ability to swap cells without having to power down the device." The article mentions the Toshiba cells demonstrated at CeBit, and -- no surprise -- Japan is likely to be the first market for these tiny fuel cells.

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First Post brought to you by... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-03-16 07:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Fuelcell vaporware.

W00T!
So... by Quaoar · 2003-03-16 08:01 · Score: 4, Funny

When does Zippo release their laptop?

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Re:I sent this off to the author (re ethanol) by Cyno01 · 2003-03-16 08:23 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, cuz those of us under 21 really have a problem getting booze. *rolls eyes*

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Re:I sent this off to the author (re ethanol) by robbyjo · 2003-03-16 08:37 · Score: 5, Funny

The dialog went out like this:

Ok, laptop, one sip for you, one sip for me...

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OMG! Dude! by thatguywhoiam · 2003-03-16 08:42 · Score: 5, Funny

The probable ideal fuel cell would be able to operate on denatured ethanol (for lower cost) as well as straight vodka... Improvements to allow impurities (eg, Tequila, Whisky) would be even better...
You just invented the best expense-report loophole in history! Huzzah!

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