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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (191686)	7/14/2006 8:17:43 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

Latest Hydrogen news... An Early Retirement For The Hydrogen Fuel Cell by Ulf Bossel [ Comments by Ben Kenney from TheWatt.com: At last weekends Lucerne Fuel Cell Conference, which is a highly respected technical conference, Ulf Bossel, the organizer, made a pretty signinficant announcement: the European PEMFC Forum series will not be continued because hydrogen fuel will never contribute to a sustainable world. Instead they will focus on phosphoric acid fuel cells, molten carbonate fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cells which "can meet the challenges of a sustainable future". Here is the entire announcement which was attached to the proceedings of the conference: ] ------------------------------------------- Announcement Lucerne Fuel Cell Forum 2-6 July 2007, Lucerne / Switzerland Fuel cells are energy converters, not energy sources. They will be part of a sustainable energy solution only if they can compete with other conversion technologies. This includes system parameters, fuels and applications. Time has come for a critical assessment. We need fuel cells for available fuels, not synthetic fuels for new fuel cells. Natural gas and oil-derived liquid hydrocarbons will be around for many years. However, their use will be restricted by costs, environmental concerns or even political reasons. Sustainable hydrocarbons like bio-methane, bio-ethanol and bio-methanol from organic waste, wood or farming are already replacing fuels of fossil origin. Hydrocarbon fuels will be important forever and so will fuel cells capable of directly converting these fuels into electricity. The impressive performance of phosphoric acid, molten carbonate and solid oxide fuel cells clearly indicates that these fuel cell families can meet the challenges of a sustainable future. Some of these fuel cells have reached 65,000 hours of operation with the first stack and natural gas or bio-methane. Published on 13 Jul 2006 by Lucerne Fuel Cell Conference via ER. Archived on 13 Jul 2006. energybulletin.net