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Re:Let's Colonize Titan by ChuckMcM on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:29PM (#13053407)
From the water using steam reforming as I understand it, which is recovered 100% when the cell is generating power. The only consumable ends up being the methane.
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Re:Let's Colonize Titan by foobarian on Monday November 28, 2016 @12:48AM (#13053663)
Looks like a standard solid oxide cell, going by their glitzy info page [1]. The water is used in reforming the methane but it's not a source of oxygen; that comes from the air.

[1] http://www.bloomenergy.com/fuel-cell/solid-oxide-fuel-cell-a...

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Re:Let's Colonize Titan by ChuckMcM on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:19AM (#13054121)
You are correct sir. That kind of sucks then.
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