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To: mishedlo who started this subject	4/9/2004 4:40:24 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) of 116555

agweb.com. 3/7/2004 Policy Journal by Sonja Hillgren Ethanol for Cars With Fuel Cells University of Minnesota engineers have invented a reactor that is both economical and small enough to operate cars or heat small homes with hydrogen fuel cells powered by ethanol. The breakthrough was announced in the Feb. 13 issue of Science magazine. “We’re excited that someone’s finally working on ethanol for fuel cells,” says Duane Adams, a Cosmos, Minn., farmer who heads the ethanol committee of the National Corn Growers Association. The University of Minnesota engineers predict the invention’s first application is to heat homes in remote areas. Next in line are auto uses. “Ethanol in car engines is burned with 20% efficiency, but if you used ethanol to make hydrogen for a fuel cell, you would get 60% efficiency,” says Lanny Schmidt, a chemical engineering professor who led the Minnesota effort. General Motors has promised to develop a fuel cell vehicle by 2010 and is working with other automakers on the federal government’s FreedomCAR (Cooperative Automotive Research) effort. President Bush has proposed spending $1.7 billion over the next five years to develop hydrogen-powered fuel cells to power cars, trucks, homes and businesses with no pollution or greenhouse gases. The Minnesota invention belies a recent report by the National Academy of Engineering that had cast doubt on time lines for introducing fuel cell–powered vehicles.

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