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Thanx for your site-I stumbled on it doing battery tracking.
The Fuel cell section(s)- Just Hydrogen?
The solar flying flea(Solar -Algae Hybrid) for instance-with the diesel powered gen.
Even if the motor were direct coupled to the prop, [it] seems to me a fuel cell might be a better choice.
But perhaps not the hydrogen fueled ones.
Back in the 1990’s a company developed a methanol fuel cell that required no reformer and didn’t form formaldehyde as an exhaust product . I was quite taken with the membrane design and construction as I had envisioned just such exchange electrodes 30 years earlier. And could do nothing in actually building them.
The company was -Manhattan Scientific. The best they could come up with for a use for it was stinking cell phones.
(Editor’s Note: The solar – algae hybrid Todd refers to is the Eraole, an ambitious attempt to cross the Atlantic on solar and bio-diesel fuel made from algae. http://sustainableskies.org/a-solar-algae-hybrid-for-an-atlantic-crossing/)