RE: Fuel Cell Killer"Just another nail in the fuel cell coffin"
LOL. I heard that one so many times. Ballard power should have been under long time ago. The fact is the silicon nanowires battery is still on the bench of the laboratory. Fuel cells are on the production line.
Here is a reality check about that nail in the coffin.
""Some researchers contacted by Chemistry World questioned whether the technique would be useful for commercial batteries. 'The most appealing result is obviously the high cycling capacity that these materials are able to deliver,' said one leading expert on lithium battery anodes, who asked not to be named. 'However, the test is limited to only 10 cycles and this is far too few to determine the industrial impact of the electrode. Also, the rate of the cycling test is very low and thus the power capability, another important practical requisite, has not been ascertained.""
https://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2007/December/17120702.asp
Cheers
