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January 2002

Fuel Cells vs. the Grid

Before fuel cells take on the internal-combustion engine, they'll offer clean electricity to offices and homes.

By David H. Freedman

For an electric-power generating station, Mohegan-2 cuts a singularly unimpressive figure. There are no cooling towers raking the sky, no forest of transmission towers, no vast turbines, no giant paddles revolving in mighty rivers. Basically, it looks like a very tall dumpster.

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