New Fuel Cell Twice As Efficient As Generators

Hank Green writes "A new kind of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell has been developed that can consume any kind of fuel, from hydrogen to bio-diesel; it is over two times more efficient than traditional generators. Acumentrics is attempting to market the technology to off-grid applications (like National Parks) and also for home use as personal Combined Heat and Power plants that are extremely efficient (half as carbon-intensive as grid power.)"

Comments

I think they're missing the bigger picture:

[tiedyejeremy]

More important than efficiency and cross platform mobility is...

a good acronym.
duh.

I can't even talk about this without a decent acronym.

Re:I think they're missing the bigger picture:

[morgan_greywolf]

I got one. How about:

"American Standard Solid-FUel Cell Kickstart System" (ASS-FUCKS)?

Re:I think they're missing the bigger picture:

[Bob-taro]

I just wanted to thank you for explicitly typing the acronym at the end. Merely boldfacing and capitalizing the first letters of the individual words might have been too subtle.

It needs a name...

[phatlipmojo]

Something catchy. How about Mr. Fusion?

I'll borrow this one from others

[Jack Malmostoso]

Hey, global warming is solved for this week! And it's only monday!

Re:The Product Page

[samkass]

"This revolutionary power system contains an array of solid-state tubes"

Remember: it's a bunch of tubes, not a big truck!

I don't see a price on that page, by the way...

Re:Factless hype.

[Anonymous Coward]

I would like a little more in the way of facts in the summary.

You must be new around here.

Re:The story source

[camperdave]

Hey! Great!... That one sure beats the template I've been using. ... Thanks.

Oooh! Thanks for the template!

[wiredog]

Been needing one of those...

Re:Any kind of fuel??

[Oktober Sunset]

My fuel of preference is coal. can I use that?

Re:The story source

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Sir,

Please cease and desist from using my intellectual property.

Signed,

R. Piquepaille

Re:The Product Page

[morgan_greywolf]

Oh, did I mention that it should demonstrate the ability to SCREW over OPEC, Government, and Corporations?

Ya know, this fuel-cell thingy has an Ethernet port on it. So if someone could find a way to add a really slick, totally anonymous P2P client on the thing, and it could demonstrate the ability to also SCREW over the RIAA, MPAA, Disney, all makers of DRM, and maybe some spammers, too, we would just be ALL set, now wouldn't we?

by now you have to know it's coming...

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, but would it run Linux!?

Speaking of templates...

[Captain Sarcastic]

Here are some reply templates, while we're at it.

Reply Template #1

Oh, wow! That's great! Too bad <insert name of particularly reviled industry> is going to buy it out before it gets big, just like it did with <insert name of 100-mpg-carburetor / perpetual motion machine / free energy source>!

Reply Template #2

Are you kidding? This was already published in <insert link and name of mainstream publication / snopes.com >. How is this "News for Nerds"?

Reply Template #3

It'll never work. This idea violates <insert name of sacred precept being violated, such as the first law of thermodynamics or the Boy Scout Law>. How could you have fallen for this, you idiot?

Reply Template #4

Frist P0st... oh, did someone beat me to that?