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What are the advantages, disadvantages and technical challenges of fuel cell technology?

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What are the advantages, disadvantages and technical challenges of fuel cell technology?

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Great energy device, flexibility and integration of parallel energy generation units in a system. Disadvantage would be the utilization of liquid electrolytes and / or lifetime of a fuel cell. Solid electrolytes / polymer fuel cells offer greater flexibility. On-demand energy generation. Technical challenge is to beat hydrogen fuel cell, and come up with a fuel cell that can run the vehicles without any kind of “crude / natural gas / H2 gas derivative”.