Green Power Fuel Cell from Oceantalk
16th April 2005

Oceantalk, distributors of Tacktick Wireless instrumentation, Hoteye thermal imaging and their own Super Digi Mobile TV tuner, introduce a new product from bow thruster innovators Max Power. The recently released MFC 100 Marine Fuel Cell, a new “green” power alternative for boating has been awarded the DAME design award at the Marine Equipment Trade Show (METS) in Amsterdam and innovation award at the Paris Boat Show.

The fuel cell will provide up to 100Ah of energy per day, enough to power most electrics on board the boat, greatly reducing the need to run engines for extended periods of time in order to constantly recharge the boats batteries. What’s more, the fuel cell provides power as required, meaning the house batteries are not deep cycling, prolonging their life.

The Marine Fuel Cell converts the combination of methanol and oxygen into electricity with very little toxic emission. In fact, the only byproduct of the cell is a very low level of carbon dioxide and water vapour.

As the Max Power Marine Fuel Cell has no moving parts, unlike the power alternative of a diesel genset, the unit is extremely quiet. Further to this, the Fuel Cell is compact and lightweight. At only 7kg, the easily installed cell does not require skin fittings for seawater cooling exhaust systems and the vessel does not require slipping in order to fit the unit.

The methanol fuel required for the unit comes in an easy to store cartridge. One such 4.3kg cartridge will provide over 300 Ah of electricity.

For more information about this or any other Max Power product contact Oceantalk Australia (02) 9981 9550 / 1800 029 948, email sales@oceantalk.com.au or visit www.oceantalk.com.