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To: Scoobah who wrote (297)	7/16/1999 2:27:00 AM
From: billkirn	Respond to of 542

H2SteveO: Thanks for the link. If industry can meet these stated goals, it looks like by 2010 the fuel cell mfg. cost should be around $80/Kw. So for a home needing 10kw, the mfg. cost of the fuel cell will be around $800. Give the mfg. a 50% gross margin, sales price around $1,600. Give distribution a $30 margin and you get your 10kw fuel cell at around $2,100. You still need to figure the reformer and inverter cost. Seems pretty reasonable to expect a $4,000 fuel cell system for the home by 2010 or sooner. Still not sure how to determine the amount of natural gas needed to produce 1kw of electrical power. Probably a ratio of Btu available per scf, efficiency, to Kw thing. Bill

To: Scoobah who wrote (297)	7/17/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Fun-da-Mental#1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542

I have a question about hydrogen. I've heard a lot about converters that can process various kinds of standard hydrocarbons (natural gas, methanol, gasoline, now diesel) into hydrogen for a fuel cell, and I thought that these converters were going to be part of the fuel cell units provided by Plug Power and other fuel cell makers, so that basically you would pour some standard fuel in and get electricity out. And yet I still read stuff from time to time about fuel cells running off hydrogen stored in tanks, or in metal hydrides, or piped from some central plant. So does anybody know the exact breakdown on what fuels the various fuel cell designs out there will run on? I think this is pretty important because IMHO these things are not going to catch on fast if they need a pure hydrogen fuel source. Fuel cell cars need to run on gasoline, and fuel cell home generators need to run on natural gas or heating oil. Fun-da-Mental