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For many years, fuel cells have been considered a possible future means of electricity generation. Perhaps the most dramatic role visualized has been their use as a propulsion system for automobiles—a way of making the electric vehicle a practical proposition. Researchers in fuel-cell technology have come to realize the tremendous electrochemical advantages of using hydrogen as a fuel. Yet the potential customers, with their feet firmly on the ground of reality, have justifiably demanded that a commercially viable fuel cell must also be capable of operating on a conventional fuel such as gasoline or natural gas. We in the fuel-cell field have been brought to realize, over the past 20 years or so, that hydrogen is an exotic, hard-to-handle, and relatively unobtainable fuel. “Just imagine,” many of us must have often thought, “how much easier our job would be if hydrogen came out of a pipe in the wall like natural gas, or was available by the gallon at the corner gasoline station.”
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Gregory, D.P. (1975). Electrochemistry and the Hydrogen Economy. In: Bockris, J.O., Conway, B.E. (eds) Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry. Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, vol 10. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7446-0_5
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