Back in 2004 Toshiba had announced that it was producing it’s own Fuel Powered Laptop, somehting that really didn’t really hit the market.  Now the talk is laptops and mp3 players powered by small fuel cells.  In December 2008, Panasonic made promises of a fuel cell that can power a laptop for 20 hours on a cup of methanol.

PolyFuel has been working with a prototype Lenovo T40 to use direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) for power. They have laptops that run up to 10 hours on conservative power and energy, but would these fuel cells let us run our laptops for an entire day without plugging in?

The Panasonic Fuel Cell Laptop

The new fuel cell can produce an average power output of 10 W, with a maximum output of 20 W, which can be sustained continuously for 20 hours on 200 cc of fuel.