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Toshiba Develops World's Smallest Fuel Cells
An anonymous reader writes "When you think of Toshiba, you might think of notebooks, but fuel cells? Never. Well, at least not until up to now. Toshiba claims to have made the world's smallest fuel cell to date. The direct methanol fuel cell can fit inside of the smallest of gadgets, ranging from MP3 Players to portal DVD Players. Most fuel cells require a pump that can mix the methanol and water, and a fan to help cool the pump. This makes installing fuel cells in smaller items out of the question. However, Toshiba's new fuel cell does not require a fan or a pump to operate, which means it's much smaller in size, and can be installed in almost any small device."
Hours of runtime, and portable, which makes it better than a shower massage. Carpe technology...
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It is I who has developed the world's smallest fuel cells. See them here:
See? They are so small that you can't even see them. Toshiba has a long way to go before they catch up with me.
...Is a fule cell that produces 2 things, electricity for our gear and as a byproduct of the energy it makes some form of caffienated beverage.
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I assume these things are perfectly safe to use?
But I am sure it would only be a small explosion. ;)
Or is that an entendre?
How long before I can get one converted over to ethanol, and installed in my stomach to use excess fuel to power my array of personal electronics?
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"ranging from MP3 Players to portal DVD Players"
What's a portal DVD player? Is that like a Stargate?
If you want true portable methane power, find a way to harness the awesome effects of my award winning Split Pea Soup! A small hose could be ran from the "back end" of the methane converter to a meriad of electronic devices. My wife can vouch for the consistent power output.
Yeah, I guess I'm funny like that.
Here's a hint - that smell when you breathe out? That is not carbon dioxide.
You can't smell CO2, which is why it's so deadly in concentration. CO is a poison - it's not just the lack of oxygen that will kill you.
Of course, pretty soon every laptop will also contain a micro-bonsai tree to cleanse the CO2.
And my micro bonsai will be overclocked.
-Adam
Ok, here's how you get the point. Both of us go camping in Maine with our iPods. We each rock out to our very hip playlists for a day or two until the batteries die. I will reach into my backpack and take out a 2 oz bottle of methanol that will last me for a week, while you attempt to plug your iPod into a tree.
It may seem like outlets are ubiquitous, but they're not. The idea is that you can take a number of "recharges" with you and it takes up minimal space. Refilling the cell is also not going to be like pouring oil in your car with a funnel, it's more like refilling a butane lighter by pressing the spout of the fuel can up to the fuel port for a few seconds.
OTOH though, I work with Methanol at my job, and it is some nasty shit. I'm not so sure how consumer friendly this particular fuel cell will be, in general it's a bad idea to be carrying around any amount of methanol. I'll wait for the cells that run off plain old alcohol so my iPod can booze up with me at the bar.
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I believe it's called "closing the loop", though I can think of some better names for it.
Please don't mod this funny; that would only encourage me.
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Hell, I don't care what the oil companies do: My newest cell phone runs on biodiesel! No more filling up at the cell-phone station for me.
The fuel cell burns methane
In other news, baked bean stocks triple!