Articles

• Chicago Area Homeowners to Test Residential Fuel Cells, (May 10, 2001 - Palo Alto, Calif.). Several Chicago-area families will soon produce their own electric power in a pilot project to assess the technical, economic, and environmental benefits of using small residential fuel cell generating systems. The pre-commercial units, designed for single and multi-family dwellings, will be installed by the Community Energy Cooperative and EPRIsolutions, a subsidiary of the Electric Power Research Institute.

• Fuel Cells: Innovation Meets Energy Efficiency  Fuel cells have the potential to offer cost efficient, environmentally safe, ways to produce energy. Paper discusses types of fuel cells, the benefits and disadvantages of fuel cell technologies, applications for fuel cells, and the leaders in the industry.

Links

• How fuel cells work.  The How Stuff Works website discusses fuel cell technologies and applications in non-technical terms.

• The National Fuel Cell Research Center (at the University of California, Irvine) website captures research, publications, graduate programs and other educational resources, and more.