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Fuel cells

Hydrogen - an energy supplier with a future

We are quite used to having access to electricity, day and night, at the flick of a switch. But fossil energy sources like coal, petroleum and natural gas not only burden our environment whenever they are burned, they will someday be exhausted. Obtaining an energy supply with the help of fuel cells is one of the possible alternatives. But just how do they function? And how is it that the DLR's Antares airplane can fly for hours with fuel cells supplying the propulsion?

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