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Butane Fuel Cell to Hit Market in 2007

Samsung SDI will commercialize a new fuel cell capable of using retail butane gas to generate power for portable electric and electronic devices by 2007.  The butane fuel cells will power an average notebook 20 hours! No wonder the portable fuel cell market is forecast for $1.2 billion by 2010.

Samsung has developed a fuel cell that can generate 100 watts of electricity for five successive hours with liquefied butane contained in the 220 gram gas cartridge generally used for portable gas cookers. With the environmentally friendly butane-based fuel cell, users can run their notebook PCs, which generally consume 20 watt of electricity, for more than 20 hours, and portable color TVs, that consume 60 watts, for over eight hours, the company said.

The Korean Times

Posted by | Fri, Jul 15, 2005 - 08:16 AM