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Dow, GM launch largest commercial fuel cell

February 16, 2004

Freeport, Texas - General Motors Corp. and Dow Chemical Co. launched the world's largest commercial hydrogen fuel cell project this week in a bid to jump start development of the green power source.

Fuel cells have been touted as environmentally sound electricity producers that could replace fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas as the world's primary energy source.
Fuel cells operate by generating electricity through a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen that leaves water and heat as byproducts.

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