What's New on our site -
Tell Congress to restore proposed cuts to hydrogen and fuel cell funding! Click HERE for an easy way to be heard and HERE for a short 2-page wrap-up on the progress fuel cell vehicles have made, or check out our Grassroots page for resources and tools.
We're getting the word out about fuel cells! Visit our Articles page to read about hot fuel cell topics, published in a variety of magazines and journals.
Want the inside scoop on the fuel cell industry? Check out our Fuel Cell Insider blog and post your comments, questions or thoughts.
State Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Database - a constantly updated searchable database
of state programs, policy. incentives, initiatives, stationary fuel cell installations, vehicle demonstrations and hydrogen fueling stations. What happened in 2008? Check out our 2008 Policy Roundup.
We've updated and reorganized our Fuel Cell Library! Lots of new studies were published recently.
The US Fuel Cell Council has
released a comprehensive list of fuel cell products available for purchase from manufacturers headquartered in the United States, Canada and Europe.
 Worldwide
Stationary Fuel Cell Installation Database - a searchable,
sortable catalogue of stationary fuel cell installations around the world.
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What is a fuel cell?
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, with water and heat as its by-product. As long as fuel is supplied, the fuel cell will continue to generate power. Since the conversion of the fuel to energy takes place via an electrochemical process, not combustion, the process is clean, quiet and highly efficient – two to three times more efficient than fuel burning.
No other energy generation technology offers the combination of benefits that fuel cells do. In addition to low or zero emissions, benefits include high efficiency and reliability, multi-fuel capability, siting flexibility, durability, scalability and ease of maintenance. Fuel cells operate silently, so they reduce noise pollution as well as air pollution and the waste heat from a fuel cell can be used to provide hot water or space heating for a home or office.
See what great applications fuel cells can be used for!
ANSWERS to some of the questions you've been hearing and reading about hydrogen and fuel
cells.
Check out some of our recent conference presentations for loads of charts, images and technical information on hydrogen and fuel cell industry advancements and policy.
How much is each country spending on fuel cells? We've compiled websites, reports and presentations and created the new draft report, International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Policy and Funding.
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