Talk:Direct methanol fuel cell

Requested move
uncontroversial, thus moved. Patstuarttalk 19:44, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Direct-methanol fuel cell → Direct methanol fuel cell – The hyphenated version does not appear to be used in any significant frequency outside of Wikipedia and its clones, such as answers.com, if Google is any indication. I searched the Web and newspapers, but I did not find any instances of the hyphenated version, except for pages related to Wikipedia, despite checking several pages of results. I do not remember ever seeing the hyphenated version in any books or magazines, either. -- Kjkolb 04:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

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external link question
Grantalkin (talk) 04:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC) I'd like to include an external link to the site of the exclusive worldwide licensor of patented Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Technology the link is [removed]
 * Sorry for striking out your link, but those must be crooks. I work in DMFC research and I never heard of these patent trolls, so there is no reason to give them free advertisement. 193.175.53.21 (talk) 16:33, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Reaction - Clarification needed on OH "group"
"Reaction" segment says talks about OH radical, then quote "Using these OH groups" lists reactions with OH- ions. whether the reaction is written with H+ or OH- makes sense depending on the pH of the solution. but what that's got to do with the formation of OH radicals? some clarification would be nice from an expert. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.21.48.174 (talk) 15:01, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Add Section on Methanol Fuel Cell Catalysts
I thought it would be appropriate to include a section on the catalysts used in methanol fuel cells. They're essential part of the cells function, but there isn't that much information about them on the current page. Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hispinstate (talk • contribs) 01:03, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

No real efficiency or power output numbers
Arguably the most important aspects of a fuel cell are its energy density, its efficiency, and its power capability per unit mass or volume. If someone knows of a reliable source for this information, please do add it. The only thing I saw here was that "methanol has 15 times the energy density of li-ion batteries" - which suggests DMFCs have huge potential, but without their efficiency or power output per kg, that statement tells us little. Dan Pope (talk) 03:53, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

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The cell
how can you say "in contrast to indirect methanol fuel cells" when your stated direct reaction is literally methanol + water = steam reforming into hydrogen. direct would be single step methanol + o2 or maybe oh-, and renaming the current indirect methanol fuel cell to double indirect methanol fuel cell, because of external steam reforming, and not internal steam reforming (h2o step in both). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goofyseeker311 (talk • contribs) 10:51, 17 August 2023 (UTC)