That means that with methanol having an upper band price of about $4.25 per US gallon, this will cost 22 cents to run, however, if it really gives only 10 to 20 W what's the viability?
Still using methanol in this way is probably better than drinkinbg the stuff!
Panasonic to demo 20-hour laptop-friendly fuel cell
Michael Davis
"weight" of methanol #
Posted Monday 20th October 2008 14:44 GMT
Roughly 0.8grams per cc
The Voice of Reason
Powerless #
Posted Monday 20th October 2008 17:44 GMT
"Laptop-friendly" and "10 to 20W power".
You're kidding, right? That's surely no-where near enough power to supply most traditionally sized laptops.
Anonymous Coward
Methanol: Density 0.7918 g/cm³, liquid* #
Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 12:32 GMT
So about 160g reducing to 0g over time.....
*Wiki Disclamer: accuracy may go up aswell as down.
Michael Dunn
200 ml of methanol. #
Posted Tuesday 21st October 2008 19:17 GMT
That means that with methanol having an upper band price of about $4.25 per US gallon, this will cost 22 cents to run, however, if it really gives only 10 to 20 W what's the viability?
Still using methanol in this way is probably better than drinkinbg the stuff!