Apple patents something to do with hydrogen fuel cells

[TimberWolf]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-hydrogen.html

Not sure what is being patented exactly, but I hope it works out. I imagine people have been trying and failing to get them working economically for hundreds of years.


Two hydrogen atoms walk into a bar...

[Cliphead]

Both Gemini and Apollo spacecraft obtained electrical power from hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells.

[AtW]

Might as well get a few patents to my name next year then

[TimberWolf]

Both Gemini and Apollo spacecraft obtained electrical power from hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells.

True, but rockets must rank as one of the most uneconomic forms of transport ever invented - almost all the energy ends up in the exhaust.

[Cliphead]

True, but rockets must rank as one of the most uneconomic forms of transport ever invented - almost all the energy ends up in the exhaust.

Fuel cells weren't used for propulsion.

[TimberWolf]

Might as well get a few patents to my name next year then

Methane powered back links?

[TimberWolf]

Fuel cells weren't used for propulsion.

I'm saying that economic efficiency wasn't a primary consideration for NASA's choice of power generation. Fuels cells themselves are old hat, at least 150 years.

[MarillionFan]

All about mOney and will.

If you have the money. The rest will follow.

[Cliphead]

I'm saying that economic efficiency wasn't a primary consideration for NASA's choice of power generation. Fuels cells themselves are old hat, at least 150 years.

But Apple can patent hydrogen fuel cells?

[AtW]

True, but rockets must rank as one of the most uneconomic forms of transport ever invented - almost all the energy ends up in the exhaust.

You've got better more economical way to delivery high payloads to orbit?