Comments on: A fuel cell to gas up your MP3 player

Toshiba uses methanol to keep a hard-drive-based audio player running for approximately 60 hours on a single charge.
Photos: Fuel cells for music players

[heystoopid]

Great idea

Where can I buy the bigger brothers for these baby fuel cells, for indepedent remote area field use of laptop computer/sat phone etc

[franklinlopez46]

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Viaspace, the holder of the global patents for the DMFC should be
congratulated for
the development of a battery that is both affordable and long
lasting. The Direct Methanol Battery Cell will become the standard
battery for celullar phones,laptops and electronics. Those who own
vspc.ob shares should hold and buy more stocks because the big
players in electronic manufacturing will be using their batteries
early 2008!

[Rod Adams]

Medis Technologies is the leader in this technology

Disclaimer - I own stock in Medis Technologies and plan to
continue accumulating it at its current price.

I have been following fuel cell technology from a technical
perspective for a number of years. About a year ago, I learned
what Medis was doing with regard to developing a proprietary,
non flammable fuel source and electrode technology that
eliminated the need for platinum.

Both of those developments have overcome hurdles that limit
the technology to small market niches. Flammable fuel cells
have no place in pockets, gym bags, or on air planes. Platinum is
a precious metal that costs more than gold - a new product
requiring platinum would drive the cost per unit mass even
higher because it would change the balance between supply and
demand even further in favor of the supplier.

After careful research into the specific advances that Medis has
made, I began accumultating stock in the company at about
$10.00 per share. It is now selling for approximately $17.00 per
share even though the company has not yet begun producing
more than pilot quantities of product. It is obviously a company
with a burn rate rather than a revenue stream, but their plans
are impressive and they keep doing exactly what they are telling
their customer and investors that they plan to do.

Check them out - www.medistechnologies.com.

I particularly recommend that you go to the link titled "In the
News" and look for the link to a presentation that they made to
investors on 7 September 2005. If you like understanding
technology and how companies bring innovative products to
market, you will enjoy this presentation.

Rod Adams
www.atomicinsights.blogspot.com

[steviesteveo]

Will people enjoy spooning alcohols into their new ipod?

-Flashback-
When i was tiny the coolest toy i had was a battery powered train which could do real smoke.
However, the batteries didn't provide the smoke, you had to carefully funnel vegetable oil into the stack. Long story short, the batteries were much more practical than a funnel and oil and the smoke feature was completely useless.

The reason i bought an ipod was because it is rechargeable and didn't eat AAAs like my old one so the fuel cell technology puts me in a dilemma, plug my short lived ipod into a power supply, put a new 10ml fuel tank in it or squirt concentrated alchol at it and pray it's only going into the tank.

Rechargeable or not ?

I'm glad they found something different then using regular cell battery, but, please, think about it, if it's not rechargable, it's still be more battery in the garbage and it's still be someting TOXIC. Toshiba, don't think about your pocket, think about the earth.

[207796398873175208235380528963]

Green Electricity: GEL Initiative by Dr. Alexander Bell

Text of the Green Electricity (GEL) Initiative: http://www.alexanderbell.us/Initiative/GEL.htm

[Stating]

Try Going Through Airport Security

Wait until the sniffers get a whiff of your fuel cell. Taking alcohol or other flammable substance on an airplane is against the law.

[kuipersj]

actually youcan take booze on planes

I've havent flown inside the US , but I have flown in 21 other countries and I took alchohol from duty free in my hand luggage in almost all of them. No questions asked.

[Alexander Bell]

Green Electricity (GEL) Initiative, updated and revised

FYI: ?GEL (Green Electricity) Initiative? introduced by Dr. Bell several years ago now found couple practical implementations: read the article published in the EDN Magazine:
Alexander Bell. Muscle power drives battery-free electronics (http://www.edn.com/article/CA6283833.html)

or refer to the ?GEL Initiative? dedicated web page at: http://www.alexanderbell.us/Initiative/GEL.htm