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To: nic who wrote (140)	1/15/1998 8:49:00 PM
From: Terry Lyon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 407

The beauty of the hybrid fuel cell is that the voltage could be relatively low which would make the number of cells much less and smaller. Then a simple DC to DC converter with 85 to 95% efficiency jumps the voltage up to around 200 volts for the vehicle batteries. Because you could operate the fuel as a hybrid at a much lower voltage than the electric drive motor would greatly reduce the cost to produce a practical vehicle. I imagine that fuel cells for utility power require many cells to achieve a high enough voltage to backfeed power lines. But a fuel cell for a hybrid vehicle need only generate around 4 to 8 KW which is small compared to numbers I have seen for Ballards fuel cell. I think I may be onto something useful here IMHO. Terry Lyon