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Subject:Re: Friday NVC
From:Mike Miller
Date:Fri, 17 Apr 2020 19:18:53 +0000

My daughter built fuel cells maybe 20 years ago. On a patent regarding them.
They work well with a very clean hydrogen source. Difficult stuff to source and store

    On Friday, April 17, 2020, 12:03:09 PM PDT, David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 >
>  was a chemist back in the ‘60s and ‘70’s, and we were all convinced we’d
> be driving electric cars powered by fuel cells long before now. Those here
> old enough to remember the OPEC fuel embargo of the ‘70s will know why.

Fuel cells were in the magazines around '62.  I mentioned them to my dad
and he just said "They have a long way to go".

Ten years ago I learned that at the time he was in charge of the Navy
effort to develop them for submarine propulsion...make a clam look sloppy,
that man.

Yrs,
d

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