Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries Vie for Portable Power Market

Article by: Catherine Lacoursiere

Fuel Cells and Advanced Batteries Vie for Portable Power , Fast Growth for Water Treatment Technologies due to World-wide Water Shortage Market By Catherine Lacoursiere March 01, 2006 Being an urban road warrior, one that jumps from wi-fi cafÃƒÂ© to wi-fi cafÃƒÂ© with laptop and/or PDA in hand, I am anxiously awaiting the commercialization of the portable fuel cell for consumer electronics. The competition for the electric , Maguma has integrated support for the eBay Acellerator Toolkit for PHP (PHP-AT) in their PHP IDE Mag socket among the growing , Paddling the San Juans With The J-Pod wi-fi population is becoming intense. The prospect of plugging in a five-dollar fuel cell cartridge with 12 hours of continuous power , Suntan-Oil - How protected are you? is a welcome alternative. John Giolli, chief financial officer of Millenium Cell (NASDAQ: MCEL) informs me that that day is coming soon. He anticipates fuel cells used in consumer products , For or Against Wind farms? to hit the market in 2008. Portable fuel cells are already being commercialized in military applications. Industrial and medical markets will follow in 2007. Yet even as the date to commercialization draws closer, it is still anyone's market to take. "The competition is pretty wide open," says Bob Rose, , Can sustainable development work? What then will be the impact on business and what will be the impa executive director of the US Fuel Cell Council of the competing fuel cell technologies vying for a piece of the portable power , The Burnings Bushes ...A Brilliant Fall Foliage Selection market. It is a tremendously dynamic area and hard to pick a winner, says Rose. , The Gifts of Nature Fuel cells, advanced battery technologies and hybrid technologies all hope to supplant and/or complement the lithium ion battery. The major competition in portable fuel cells is between hydrogen and direct methanol fuel cell technology. Direct methanol fuel cells are an earlier stage technology with a number of technical issues still to be ironed out, including low power , Tsunami Tsupport density and efficiency. DMFC's require a more active and expensive catalyst to prevent corrosion, such as platinum. Nonetheless, it is a proven technology in portable applications and a very active area of research. The DMFC can convert cheap liquid fuels directly to hydrogen, dispensing of the reforming unit, which also provides the potential for smaller footprints. The stock price of Polyfuel (LSE: PYF.L), a maker of membranes used in DMFCs, has been climbing steadily since its IPO last year. Zinc air , For or Against Wind farms? fuel cells (ZAFC) also dispense of fuel reformers. Power Air , Be Power Smart and Save Energy Corporation (OTCBB: PWAC), which just joined the US Fuel Cell Council, is producing fuel cells for small portable battery and power , Earth Friendly Products generation applications. Key advantages of zinc include its long running times and low costs due to the abundance of zinc. Hydrogen proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells are marching into military applications this year. "We are making great traction in the military and great traction in the airforce," says Millenium's Giolli. Millenium licenses its technology to companies such as Jadoo Power , Celebrate Parks Day, Everyday this Summer! Systems. Jadoo sells a fuel cell power , When Asphalt and Dinosaurs Roamed the Earth system for military surveillance , sell sino-nsh lube oil recycling,filter,purifier,filtration,purification,regeneration,tr eatment,res equipment and video cameras. , Lube Oil Purifier, oil filter, oil recycling, oil filtration, oil purification, oil filtering, oil r Millenium's lower-cost disposable hydrogen battery - cartridges filled with sodium borohydride--have allowed Jadoo to lower its pricing. Next month, Jadoo plans , Paddling the San Juans With The J-Pod to commercialize a cheaper power , Paddling the San Juans With The J-Pod system for portable electronic equipment. The battery makers see opportunity. Duracell (GLL) and Energizer (NYSE: ENR) are making fuel cell cartridges, as is lighter maker BIC. Hybrid systems also are emerging from some very advanced portable fuel cell technology coming out of Asia. KDDI has partnered with Toshiba (TOSBF.PK) and Hitachi (HIT) to produce a cellular phone , Taming Hurricane Pedro Gives Hope for the Future that runs on both a lithium ion battery and methanol-powered fuel cell. Millenium envisions a similar hybrid model plugging PEM-based cartridges into laptops alongside batteries in remote locations , For or Against Wind farms? by 2008. Given the massive resources being applied to the task, one way or another portable fuel cells will soon be powering electronic devices. How big is the market opportunity? This week, Space Review explores mining the lunar surface for platinum in asteroid fragments for use in fuel cells. More conservatively, the US Fuel Cell Council forecasts the market to grow , For or Against Wind farms? to over a billion dollars over the next several years. Disclaimer Catherine Lacoursiere is an independent columnist for this web , Air Pollution site. Catherine Lacoursiere may hold long or short positions in any of the stocks mentioned in this article and those positions can change , Taming Hurricane Pedro Gives Hope for the Future at any moment. InvestorIdeas.com Disclaimer: www.InvestorIdeas.com/About/Disclaimer.asp, InvestorIdeas is not affiliated or compensated by the companies mentioned in this article. Catherine Lacoursiere is a freelance writer. Nothing in the articles should be construed as an offer or solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any specific products , Tsunami Tsupport or securities , Taming Hurricane Pedro Gives Hope for the Future . Past performance does not guarantee future results.

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