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Funny thing is, I never paid much attention to the Fuel cell until a few months ago when the patent was issued. Then one day while talking to MVTG I got some clarity on the fuel cell, and I went back and re-read the patent. Then I looked at WIKI on fuel cells and discovered the MVTG fuel cell is so revolutionary, that it is not even listed as a fuel cell type (yet) in WIKI!!!

It is different in that it does not need a polymer membrane (which the others need, and the polymer membranes have drawbacks), and it is different in that the gas (air or O2) and fuel (liquid formic acid) can be mixed first and then feed to the fuel cell as a two phase mixture, gas and liquid, unlike all the others where the fuel and oxidizer are fed separately and need expensive controls to control the flow rates of the two reactants.

It will have a low production cost compared to the other known designs (automotive will love that), and will operate at low temperatures, so no cooling is needed (which adds to the cost and design complexity) and no long warm up time and cool down time is needed which is a huge issue with other designs for transportation vehicles!!!

[Ecomike]

The new issue of the carbon capture journal is out today, found this (relevant to MVTG news):

http://www.globalccsinstitute.com/insights/authors/dennisvanpuyvelde/2013/02/20/update-co2-capture-cement-production

This writer obviously has not heard of LaFarge and Mantra Energy MVTG!!!! OR the witter has an agenda to sell CCS!!! LOL

World cement production in 2011 reached 3.6 billion tonnes. This resulted in over 2 billion tonnes of CO2 being produced from both the calcination of limestone and the fuels used (mainly coal and gas) to drive this process.

The global cement sector has been very active in reducing its emissions from cement production. The three levers that have been used are:

Energy efficiency,
Alternative fuels or biofuels, and
Clinker substitution.

Through the combination of these efforts, the emissions per tonne of cement have been reduced by 16 percent from the 1990 levels of 750 kg CO2/ tonne of cement. Further reductions can be achieved through continued action using these three levers but there is a practical limit on the reductions that can be achieved. Hence deep cuts in CO2 emissions from cement production can only be achieved through CCS.

This writer is dead wrong!!!!! ERC is the answer not CCS!!!! Time for some posts from us on that page, awareness posts to clue the writer and readers into MVTG's profitable CO2 to Formic acid ERC process and reactor!!!