Agent Greg has this to say:
25 watts is pretty impressive. Three of them could run a 75 watt light bulb.
I’m looking forward to an LED light powered by methanol. Just the thing for camping.
I believe this will be the future of electric cars, by the way. Methanol fuel cells with regenerative braking and eventually battery banks and some solar assist.
Some info from the article:
Fuel cell developer UltraCell has come up with a new fuel cell power source for portable electronic devices that it says has twice the energy density of lithium batteries. That’s potentially very good news for power-hungry mobile gadgeteers…
UltraCell’s reformed methanol fuel cell, or RMFC, technology uses a micro reformer to generate fuel-cell-ready hydrogen from a highly concentrated methanol solution. The new portable power system has the density of a hydrogen fuel cell but uses readily available, low-cost methanol fuel in a compact package.