Monday, January 31, 2005

Is 2005 the year of the mobile fuel cell?

Deloitte is predicting that 2005 will be the year that ethanol-powered fuel cells will become commercially available. They rightly acknowledge that there are still many barriers to widespread adoption of fuel cells for mobile electronics, but they are betting that the benefits will eventually overcome these barriers. Will low power modes become an issue that mainly affects liquid fuels, rather than electricity, in the future? I can't see fuel cells becoming common for non-mobile devices.

(from Deloitte's TMT Trends: Technology Predictions 2005)

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