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Where's Mr. Robot when you need him. And this world desperately needs him now.

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What kills them is being around air like the Chinese have.

Details on this?

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I don't give personal information other than vague stuff. I have designed built and used fuel cells as part of my old job though. Sulfur makes fuel cell membranes not work. It's either the catalyst or the membrane I don't remember which but one is affected. The catalyst is Pd from what I remember. Pem fuel cells use a catalyst to split the hydrogen then transport it across the membrane to meet with o2 to form water. This h2 leaves its electrons which can then be used for electric power.

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Thanks. That's interesting.

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Actually I said that wrong those electrons don't disappear, they end up back with the water molecule, but they go the long way around powering electrical equipment in the process of getting back to the water. To throttle this you just need to feed less hydrogen. Funnily enough if you use an electrolyzer to generate high pressure hydrogen during off power hours you can then use that hydrogen to power fuel cells in a power plant that is resilient to grid cycles without reliance on wind or sun or other intermittent supplies. The issue is the catalyst is "rare" earth metal that is mostly supplied by the fucking Chinese.