Are there benefits to fuel cell technology?
Fuel cells offer significant benefits over traditional energy technologies including:
- Versatile and scalable – can be applied in micro, portable, stationary and transportation applications
- Superior fuel efficiency
- Zero tailpipe emissions and smog-creating emissions
- Produce significantly lower emissions and green house gas emissions when using carbon based fuels
- Improved productivity by delivering constant levels of continuous power
- Quick refuelling using a variety of fuel sources, including renewables
- Modular design allows for low cost, high volume manufacturing
- Low maintenance costs due to few moving parts
- Quiet operation
- Design freedom
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Environmental
As a hydrogen fuel cell produces no air pollutants or greenhouse gases, they can significantly improve our environment. Even when powered by fossil fuels, hydrogen fuel cells produce far less pollution than conventional technologies and can utilize existing resources more efficiently.
Health
Hydrogen fuel cells only produce heat and water as byproducts. As a hydrogen fuel cell produces no air pollutants or greenhouse gases, they can significantly improve the quality of the air that we breathe.
Economical
Hydrogen and fuel cell energy technology will save money, create jobs, reduce greenhouse emissions and sharply reduce air and water pollution. As the birthplace of the modern day fuel cell, British Columbia is a world leader in clean, fuel cell power generation -- a key to sustainable development.
Reliable
The absence of combustion and moving parts means that fuel cell technologies provide much improved reliability over traditional combustion engines. In certain applications, fuel cell technologies have demonstrated reliabilities of 99.999999% - more than for any alternative technology.
Complementary Technologies
An important advantage of fuel cell technologies is their suitability for hybridization with other technologies. Batteries and super-capacitors are commonly used to complement fuel cells, often to help the system cope with peak loads and very fast-changing loads.
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