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Powertrekk fuel cell recharger makes a splash

2012-01-10
okay so this is andy wallace of Cigna chemistry and he's going to show me how to charge up their fuel cell mobile device recharger and here here it is by the way in pieces that's the cartridge that's the base that's the top and that's the water all right what do you do so this is the power truck fuel cell systems if you want power out for multiple days basically this is a hydrogen fuel cell the oxygen comes in through the air from the top hydrogen comes in through the base in here this is your hydrogen generation component so this is the water tray so it's designed to really kind of scoop up water from a lake or river wherever you're out backpacking so but right now I'm just going to fill it up doesn't matter if you know you don't want sediment in the water but it doesn't matter if there's that was a bad okay hang on a second hanger and this by the way is your reporter with fuel cell of water on his hair this by the way I have to say this is what happened in the first demo and I was told us would never happen again it's a wrong angle out on it on the table hang on a second while I towel off here excuse me are we early it's outdoor power equipment okay I'm told you can fuel this with it almost any form of liquid including some unmentionable once and I'm glad you used water can I just say that we have them studies with synthetic urine only yes what you couldn't get anybody to do the real test yet all right i'm mostly dry now so now we've got water in there so and what was hate me is there's a spring yeah and that that pressurizes the water to put it into this cartridge I'll say okay all right so that curtner hold on that cartridge is what so this cartridge is a sodium silicide cartridge okay it's designed it's certified to take on board a passenger aircraft you can take three of them on board it's you can do 100 kilograms of crush and all directions without any deformation to can you can drop it thermal cycling we've gone through pages of testing on it now so Liam silicide which you make that's what your company does your a chemical company that's when you combine it with water you get the hydrogen hence your fuel cell system alright so keep going here okay so sodium suicide it's really made of just sodium and silicon sodium comes all basically from Niagara Falls energy in the US with massive producer of sodium okay put in there yet so so now as soon as i connect these two then waters from the pressurized water will start not going into the cartridge I know we're going to give you a phone this is my and actually saw the green light turn on yeah that's because hydrogen is now being generated so the fuel cell is running at this point this is my other phone it's an android phone I gotta get some water off the peg at second alright it's dry now and we're going to plug it in and see if it starts charging so
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