Topic: NEWS english - on June 19, 2005 at 9:43:00 AM CEST
Button-Battery Sized, Propane Fuel Cell for MP3 Players and Beyond
Engineers have created a propane-burning fuel cell that's almost as small as a watch battery, yet many times higher in power density. Led by Sossina Haile of the California Institute of Technology, the team reports in the June 9 issue of the journal Nature that two of the cells have sufficient power to drive an MP3 player. If commercialized, such a fuel cell would have the advantage of driving the MP3 player for far longer than the best lithium batteries available".
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