Where does the water go? Will I have to wring out my laptop? New joke possibility: Are you happy to see me, or did you just use you laptop?.......
"Fuel cells have been touted as a green power source "
Touted green by politicians and journalists alike, who basically have zero technical education!
Although fuels cells are compact and have a high energy storage capacity, they are not " a green power source" when the whole picture is included for the extraction of the fuel itself. True the waist from the cell is not pollutant yet, often overlooked by the hype is the fact that hydrogen or what ever fuel is used must be prepared with another energy source, which for all particle purpose would be fossil fuel.
Hydrogen can be taken from water, but it would require more energy to do it , than what would be returned when used in the fuel cell, therefore it would be more green to just burn the fossil fuel directly, since less would be used for example comparing an automobile combustion engine to a fuel cell engine. However for small devices combustion engines are not practical, so this report has some merits, very exciting!
But getting past the hype, fuel cells are just part of the solution, what is still needed is a clean low cost energy source free from the dependency of terrorist nations, such as nuclear power!
When those fuel cells become commonplace, many of you will still say it can't be done.
I hope is controls the hydrogen leaks. The Libertains could get burnt listening to toons and smokin weed.
Reminds me of the days when I had a coal fired calculator. You had to shovel loads of coal in the back to get it to add 2+2.