Power cells to the people

Fraunhofer researchers are working to make multi-fuel high temperature ceramic fuel cells affordable on the mass market for use as portable power generators.

Fraunhofer researchers are working to make multi-fuel, high temperature ceramic fuel cells affordable on the mass market for use as portable power generators.

 

Professor Alexander Michaelis, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) in Dresden, said, “Ceramic high-temperature fuel cells are ideal as mobile power generators for motor homes, boats, trucks or cars. They also have stationary applications for generating electricity, heating and cooling, or in agriculture for generating energy from biogas.”

 

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