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U.S. Air Force tests fuel cell power

Published: Dec 08, 2005
Source: aimpoints.hq.af.mil

A US Air Force base is beginning a year long trial of fuel cell technology.

Robins Air Force Base in Georgia has taken a delivery of ten five-kilowatt fuel cells from New York manufacturer Plug Power that it is hoped will provide 275,000 kilowatt hours of electricity over the next year.

The scheme is part of a project by the US defence department looking in to the provision of alternative sources of power, both in the US and in makeshift camps on foreign soil.continue..

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