Consumers pay relatively little for electricity in money, but dearly in pollution: generating plants, burning more and more coal and oil to meet the demand, send potentially harmful effluents into the air despite serious industry efforts at emission control. Last week a substitute for conventionally produced electricity was put on display. It would be pollution-freebut, in its present stage of development, cost the user at least twice as much.
The device, a natural gas fuel cell the size of a small home furnace, was demonstrated by the Connecticut Natural Gas Corp. in Talcott Village, a planned community near Hartford, Conn. Called
Powercel II,...
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