This is an interview with a Gneral Motors employee about their fuel cell car.
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By Glenn Pew for AVweb.com Boeing has flown a manned aircraft on hydrogen fuel cell power. The full text of Boeing’s release follows: MADRID, Spain, April 03, 2008 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced these days that it has, for the 1st time in aviation history, flown a manned airplane powered by hydrogen fuel cells. The recent milestone is the function of an engineering team at Boeing Study & Technology Europe (BR&TE) in Madrid, with assistance from business partners in Austria, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. “Boeing is actively working to create new technologies for environmentally progressive aerospace items,” said Francisco Escarti, BR&TE’s managing director. “We are proud of our pioneering function throughout the past five years on the Fuel Cell Demonstrator Airplane project. It is a tangible example of how we are exploring future leaps in environmental performance, as properly as a credit to the talents and innovative spirit of our team.” A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts hydrogen directly into electricity and heat with none of the products of combustion such as carbon dioxide. Other than heat, water is its only exhaust. A two-seat Dimona motor-glider with a 16.3 meter (53.five foot) wingspan was utilized as the airframe. Built by Diamond Aircraft Industries of Austria, it was modified by BR&TE to include a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell/lithium-ion battery hybrid method to power an electric motor coupled to a conventional …