Waste heat from fuel cells aids sustainable operations in cold environments
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An ordinary Otto engine has an efficiency of 30 percent. Fuel cells are better, more than 50% of the hydrogen gas is converted to electrical energy and the rest is transformed into heat that can be used to increase the overall efficiency of the systems. An example where the heat can be reused in a