A GRADUAL EVOLUTION

Which fuel cell areas continue to excite the financial movers and shakers? Many observers believe that fuel cells lie at the heart of any post-fossil fuel energy architecture. Although they have been around for 150 years and their performance is not in doubt, high manufacturing costs and low levels of reliability mean that they have so far failed to capture a commercial market. If, as recent developments suggest, genuine progress is being made, which technologies and what applications are worth watching?
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BIPOLAR PLATES: CUTTING COSTS

A new polymer could help in the struggle to make fuel cells
economically viable. A start-up company based in the UK – Bac2 – has developed a new material called ElectroPhen, which promises to significantly reduce the cost of producing bipolar plates, and thus reduce the overall cost of fuel cell stacks; this could help with the ultimate aim of helping fuel cell mass adoption, maintains the company’s chairman, James Lewis.
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REALITY BECKONS

Are we any closer to fuel cell commercialisation? And if so,
how close? After years of reporting on the promise of fuel cells, it seems we could soon be giving news of their commercial launch and everyday use. Nowhere is that day nearer than in the micro fuel cell sector, as George Marsh reports.
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