Re: Carbon Nanotubes to Improve Fuel Cells

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Date: 6 Oct 2004 16:45:50 GMT

On 3 Oct 2004 20:08:58 GMT, neutron_p@lycos.com (Neutron) wrote:

>
>(http://www.physorg.com/news1408.html)
>
>Quote: "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
>awarded Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc., Motorola, Inc. and Johnson
>Matthey Fuel Cells, Inc. a $3.6 million grant to develop "free
>standing" carbon nanotube electrodes for micro-fuel cells in order to
>meet the ever-growing demand for more power and longer run times in
>portable microelectronics. The Advanced Technology Program award from
>NIST supports a 3 year, $7.4 million project to exploit the unique
>properties of single wall carbon-nanotubes (SWNT) in order to achieve
>siginificant breakthroughs in fuel cell performance, durability and
>manufacturability."
>
>Sounds very promising! Especilly when those three giants get down to
>business...
>Your comments.

There's sure a lot of "sounds promising" out there. Has been for quite
a while now. $3.6 million, or $7.4 million over 3 years, are very
tepid indications of faith.

John

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