Fuels cells are essentially not very dangerous. But in order for a fuel cell to work hydrogen must be used. Hydrogen is usually fed to a fuel cell from a resevoir. Hydrogen is very flammable and if the concentration in an area of hydrogen is too great any spark of any kind even friction can make it combust.
Not all fuel cells run on hydrogen. There are natural gas and methanol cells.
Fuel cells are dangerous to your life if you are making one in your basement workshop and don't tell your significant other what you're doing and what it costs first. This is because the membrane in a fuel cell, a DuPont film called Nafion, costs $175 per square foot and it looks like that plastic you make document protectors from. "YOU SPENT $200 ON THIS!?!?!?!?!"
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plant cells need lots of glucose that chloroplasts produce so the mitochondria can make atp, the cells fuel
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Because they burn fuel and make you move.
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Where do they make fuel cells?
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Does a nuclear generating station make pollution?
No, but the spent fuel must be carefully stored after use because it does contain dangerous radioactivity.
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What make carbon monoxide dangerous?
It is very dangerous. It can make you die.
What is true of hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen fusion?
Beyond their use of hydrogen to make power there are nothing but differences between the two. Fuel cells combine oxygen and hydrogen in a porous membrane to make electricity. Hydrogen fusion takes two hydrogen atoms and fuses them into a helium atom generating heat and several particles.
What do cells make with DNA?
Cells make more cells with DNA.
Are fuel cells a fossil fuel?
Fuel conversion cells are made from platinum and convert the material going through the device into heat and electric power (about equally). The element used is often hydrogen. Hydrogen comes from many places, but the practical commercially viable method in use is from stripping all other elements from natural gas. This means that the hydrogen used in most applications is a fossil fuel. This does not mean it must be this way though. Hydrogen could be obtained through the chemical stripping of water into hydrogen and oxygen. This would make fuel cells non fossil fuel based.
What are the properties of fluids that can make scuba diving dangerous?
The propertie that make the fluids dangerous is nitrogen.
How do eukaryotic cells make more cells?
eukaryotic cells make more cells by the stages of meiosis, and mitosis.
How did astronauts obtain and conserve water on the moon?
Water was created in the fuel cells, which combined Hydrogen and Oxygen to make electricity, and whose byproduct was H2O
Are cells and genetics related?
Cells and genetics are related. Cells that make people make your genetics.
What types of cells make up the bladder?
Several types of cells make up the bladder. Connective tissue cells, epithelial cells, and muscle cells all make up the bladder.
Do cells make food from sunlight?
cells that contain chlorophyll do, like plant cells. but cells like animals cells do not make their own food
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some heal,conquer,breaks unwanted substances,make energy fuel,stores useful sustances and some control we need them to make our body well-functioned
Are skunks dangerous?
only if you make them scared they are dangerous known for there spray.
Is rott weilers dangerous?
Not at all, the owners make the dog dangerous.
Do cells make living things?
Yes cells do make living things. There is blood cells and skin cells and many more!
How to make cells?
Cells come only from other cells. That is part of the cell theory. We cannot make them.
What cells make antibodies?
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What is a bad thing about hydrogen fuel cells?
There are two problems with hydrogen fuel cells. One is that the cars that run off of hydrogen fuel cells are very expensive to make another thing is that hydrogen storage is not easy. The work and money it would take to put up hydrogen stations around the country for cars is too much to even consider it. Also another problem with hydrogen is te oil companies that don't wanna lose their business.
