Hydrogen is always found married to another element, not by itself, so when hydrogen is extracted (which is an inefficient process), it then becomes a volitile element. Where gasoloine is only flammable, hydrogen is explosive.
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Intelligent Energy's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology Can Now Fit Inside an iPhone
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Hilarious. Yeah, an electronic device that gives off water vapor. Thanks, but not thanks. Interesting advancement though. It's high time we took a giant leap forward for power tech.
Yes, hydrogen in cars is not stored as a free gas, which would obviously not be dense enough.
Watergate (or, Hydrogate)!
If implemented, the iPhone will have an exhaust pipe and we will be talking about modding it.
Flowmasters on my iPhone?.
I'm in!!!
British power technology company Intelligent Energy has developed an iPhone 6 prototype with a built-in fuel cell that supports hydrogen cartridges delivering up to a week's worth of battery life, according to The Telegraph. It also demonstrated a hydrogen-powered MacBook Air.
The patented fuel cell system, reportedly poised for its first major commercial deployment in cell towers across India over the next few weeks, creates electricity based on the chemical reaction of combining hydrogen and oxygen, which produces only small amounts of water vapor and heat as waste.
Intelligent Energy also introduced a hydrogen-powered iPhone charger called Upp based on the same technology last year, but its latest breakthrough has seen it fit the fuel cell portion of the technology alongside an iPhone 6 battery pack without altering the size or shape of the smartphone.
Henri Winand, CEO of Intelligent Energy:The only cosmetic difference on the iPhone 6 prototype is the addition of rear vents allowing a small amount of water vapor to escape. The Telegraph reports the device it saw at the company's Loughborough, United Kingdom headquarters also had a modified headphone socket for refuelling hydrogen gas, although likely only because it was a prototype.
Intelligent Energy plans to sell a disposable cartridge that will attach to the bottom of a smartphone and provide enough hydrogen-releasing powder "for a week of normal use," and the company's corporate finance chief Mark Lawson-Statham vaguely mentions having a "partner" on board -- speculated to be Apple, although both companies declined to comment as expected.The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are powered by 1,810 mAh and 2,915 mAh lithium-ion batteries respectively.
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And what is the deal with aviation security? I think these kind of batteries are interesting, but I'm not sure if the FAA let's 200 passengers onto a plane with these potential mini bombs…hydrogen? Anyone remember Hindenburg?
I'm beginning to hate this forum. I come here less and less due to the immaturity and stupidity. It's nearly impossible to have an intelligent conversation about anything
Yes. We learned that the main explosion on the Hindenburg was caused by kerosene, not hydrogen. The hydrogen may have started the explosion, but it was the fuel that caused the deaths.
It's not a lot of vapor. For this cell it's just about 1.6 ml in one full charge. So that's not even half a teaspoon. Most of that water just escapes. So you wouldn't notice a thing. You sweat a lot more in an hour than this thing produces in seven days. So don't worry, it's not actually relevant.
Just curious, how is solar supposed to be the future of powering portable devices?
Didn't we learn nothing from 100 years of science & tech... Seems not according to you.
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...gen-fueled-cars-arent-little-hindenburgs.html
You're more worried about H, which at least needs an ignition source and is so compressed
in those fuel cells that it would dissipate in air in a nanosecond (before it even had the chance to burn!)
Than an Alkali like Lithium which is famously reactive, will and drip while it burns hot as hell on you!
As seen in some videos...
I'm pretty there's way more "water vapor" and even water while living in Florida and sweating like a hog, than you'd get from this. It's not venting inside the phone so there is no issue for the electronics itself.
It's explosive (which just means it burns faster), but usually only a small part ignites because it has a tendency to disperse very very fast (being so light). Most of the what burned during the Hedingburg disaster wasn't Hydrogen, which escaped within a few seconds of the start of the dirigible being breached.
That's basically the argument in this article, that and putting ballistic materials around it making the cells quasi indestructible (which is not even the case for Lithium batteries).
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...gen-fueled-cars-arent-little-hindenburgs.html
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The opposite might be true: refueling is way better than charging: it is done almost instantly (some seconds vs hours), it holds more energy per volume and you can keep a huge amount of it externally in some "refill container".
If you think about solar cells on the back of a smartphone: in this case, solar charging would be WAAAAY too slow and it's efficiency factor is so bad, it couldn't even hold the charge of a smartphone if in full sunlight - and how often do you place your phone in full sunlight? It would overheat.
EDIT: There are some recharge devices either available or in production (e.g. http://getkraftwerk.com ), that might also be a feasible way to go.
Modifying it like this on your own will, I was more thinking if they got the technology to that point that apple could buy or license it to put in iPhones from the factory.
Actually THIS is incorrect.
Gasoline is flammable AND can explode.
Hydrogen is flammable AND can explode.
Neither are considered explosives.
You have seen a rocket right? Flame shoots out the end propelling it the other direction... it doesn't just instantly explode.
FYI The explosions on TV are usually a jug of gasoline wrapped in det cord.
That's going to need some pretty startling innovations in pocket design.
You say Hydrogen, they think Hydrogen bomb, thus the reference to a mushroom cloud. They don't realize the mushroom cloud is a product of the size of the explosion, not the source of the explosion.
If, by chance, the fuel cell were to explode it would be caused by the hydrogen burning, not fusing. The explosion would be approximately same size as one made by an equal amount of methane, butane, or propane.
No the real question is if this will invalidate your warranty/apple care because of water damage?
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