Direct Carbon Fuel Cell for Efficient Utilization of Pakistan´s Coal Reserves

This paper is an initial thinking towards developing an indigenous fuel cell industry for Pakistan and other developing countries. The paper proposes to devote the research in fuel cells toward the development of direct carbon fuel cells which use coal as fuel. This way in the short term Pakistan can efficiently use its huge coal reserves and in the long term when Pakistan moves into the hydrogen age it will have a ready market and industry of fuel cells. This paper presents a five phased methodology to achieve this task