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To: Hawkeye who wrote (2132)	4/2/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: yard_man	Respond to of 5827

I guess it's not impossible, but sounds pretty far-fetched to me!

To: Hawkeye who wrote (2132)	4/2/1998 10:45:00 AM
From: Tim C. Lienau	Respond to of 5827

I think ERC currently has a contract with the Navy to offer some kind of Fuel Cell power for a surface ship or submarine. I'm short on specifics. T. Lienau

To: Hawkeye who wrote (2132)	4/2/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: Kayaker	Respond to of 5827

Note from "Mining Business Digest" on platinum requirements for Ballard fuel cell... . . . the outlook for platinum received a boost as Ford Motor Co. gives the go-ahead to a $422.5 MM investment in fuel cell technology in a JV with Diamler-Benz and Canada's Ballard Power systems Inc. The process is two-to-three times more efficient than internal combustion and dramatically reduces emission levels. Major car companies hope to have a near emission-free commercial vehicle powered by the process on the road by 2004. Each car would require some 10 grams of Pt, seven grams more than are required for a conventional car with a catalytic converter.

To: Hawkeye who wrote (2132)	4/2/1998 3:00:00 PM
From: peter dumbrille	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5827

DND has contributed R&D money to Ballard. For now, I believe the intention is run the boats as presently configured but in a later conversion, either replace the batteries with fuel cells, or augment them. In these boats, the electric propulsion motors get their electricity from the batteries which are charged by running diesel engines either on the surface or at periscope depth (using the snorkel). Below periscope depth the endurance of the submarine is limited by the battery charge at the time of diving. With fuel cells, electricity can be produced without the need to surface or use the snorkel(a submarine on the surface is vulnerable and snorkeling is noisy. This allows for greater undetected, submerged endurance below periscope depth. It is especially handy for under ice operations in our third ocean. Hooray for our Navy and hooray for Ballard.