POLYFUEL OPENS NEW MEANS OF POWER FOR NOTEBOOKS

Powering a notebook with a transportable liquid fuel is getting nearer to authenticity. But don't be expecting to pay money for one for your subsequent birthday. PolyFuel, a corporation that develops fuel cell membranes, revealed on Wednesday it has urbanized a prototype notebook a Lenovo T40 ThinkPad that utilizes methanol cartridges and a fuel cell as a supremacy source. The company plans to show it off to consumer electronics and PC producers in the forth coming weeks. PolyFuel, which was spun out of what is now named SRI International, has around 19 customers, including NEC and Sanyo. The implementation prototype is an evidence of concept, rather than a completed product. The methanol cartridges, which are in relation to the size of a deck of cards, can be replaced devoid of having to power down the mechanism. The prototype utilizes an unswerving methanol fuel cell (DMFC) that exchanges methanol, also recognized as timber or methyl alcohol, to generate electricity to run the notebook. A single cartridge can afford 10 hours of battery life.