Rerun: How Fuel Cells Work
TechStuff
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🗓️ 16 January 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device; it turns chemical energy into electrical energy. Jonathan and Chris discuss fuel cells in detail from their origins to why they're not practical for general use yet in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from IHeart Radio. |
| 0:16.1 | Hey there, and welcome to Tech Stuff. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm an executive producer with IHeart Radio, and I love all things tech to Tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive producer |
| 0:21.4 | with IHeartRadio, and I love all things tech. Tech stuff is several years old now. It |
| 0:27.8 | launched in 2008, so we've been around longer than some tech has. And one of the early episodes |
| 0:35.1 | we did was way back on June 21st, 2010, how fuel cells work. |
| 0:41.5 | This is one of those technologies that people often turn to, and they look at that as a possible move forward to get away from, you know, carbon emissions with vehicles in particular. |
| 0:56.8 | And fuel cells could do that if we met some other very tough challenges. |
| 1:05.3 | And so I thought it would be fun to listen to this classic episode. |
| 1:08.7 | This is from the Chris Palellett era of tech stuff, |
| 1:12.6 | how fuel cells work. |
| 1:14.4 | Enjoy. |
| 1:18.5 | Now let's tackle our subject, |
| 1:20.5 | which is how fuel cells work. |
| 1:22.9 | Ah, fuel cells, the mystery, |
| 1:25.3 | uh, energy problem saver of the future. |
| 1:29.3 | Or, sort of. |
| 1:30.3 | We would hope, anyway. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, fuel cells are this, well, it's kind of like a battery. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, let's go ahead and kind of define what it is. |
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