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Getting power to the people: technological dramaturgy and the quest for the electrochemical engine

机译：为人民提供动力：技术革新和对电化学引擎的追求

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Despite over 50 years of concerted effort by government and industry since the end of the Second World War, expectations for a cheap, durable commercial fuel cell have been repeatedly dashed. I argue this is so mainly because researchers have historically conceived the fuel cell as a universal chemical energy converter, a kind of super battery that combined the best aspects of battery and heat engine. Dramatic demonstrations of notional and prototype hydrogen fuel cells in controlled conditions attracted short-term investments in further research and inspired hopes that long-lived and affordable commercial fuel cells using hydrocarbons could be developed. However, building such an electrochemical engine proved a complex and costly process, one that few sponsors were willing to support for long in the absence of rapid progress. I explore these dynamics in a comparative study of the fuel cell programs of General Electric and Ballard Power Systems.
机译：自第二次世界大战结束以来，尽管政府和工业界经过50多年的共同努力，对廉价，耐用的商用燃料电池的期望却屡屡破灭。我之所以这么认为，主要是因为研究人员一直以来都将燃料电池视为一种通用的化学能转换器，这种超级电池将电池和热机的最佳方面结合在一起。在受控条件下对概念氢燃料电池和原型氢燃料电池进行的戏剧性展示吸引了短期投资，用于进一步的研究，并激发了人们希望开发使用碳氢化合物的长寿命且价格合理的商业燃料电池。但是，建造这种电化学发动机证明是一个复杂且昂贵的过程，在没有快速进步的情况下，很少有赞助商愿意长期提供支持。我在对通用电气和巴拉德动力系统公司的燃料电池计划进行比较研究时探索了这些动力。

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