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Published online 16 March 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000316-11

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Flameless fuels

Fuel cells power spacecraft but produce astronomical electricity bills. Cheaper models to run computers and mobile phones could be right under our noses, discovers David Adam.

If, as Shakespeare suggested, the world is a stage, then oil and gas are the pantomime villains: we may boo and hiss fossil fuels, but we love them really.

Enter, stage right, natural gas.

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