Germany: Super-stealth submarine powered by hydrogen fuel cells [View all]

[nationalize the fed]

April fool fuel?

Nope

Frederik Pleitgen CNN 2/22/2011

Eckernfoerde, Germany (CNN) -- It is almost totally silent, radiates virtually no heat and is constructed entirely from non-magnetic metals.

Meet the U212A -- an ultra-advanced non-nuclear sub developed by German naval shipyard Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft, who claim it to be "the peak of German submarine technology."

And few would argue. The super-stealth vessel is the first of its kind to be powered by a revolutionary hydrogen fuel cell that lets it cruise the deep blue without giving off noise or exhaust heat...

...With this latest technology, he added, "the boat is virtually undetectable."
Video: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/02/22/hybrid.submarine/


Photo credit: Stahlkocher

Propulsion:
1 MTU 16V 396 diesel-engine
9 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells, 30–40 kW each (U31)
2 HDW/Siemens PEM fuel cells 120 kW (U32, U33, U34)
1 Siemens Permasyn electric motor 1700 kW, driving a single seven-bladed skewback propeller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_212_submarine

Hydrogen Fuel Cells work. Even under water.
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