2005 Volume 30 Issue 2 Pages 110-113
The fuel cell is noted as its excellent environmental characteristic and also expected as a promising industrial field leading the various basic technologies covering broad fields, such as material, machine, electricity, and chemistry. Mie prefecture put extensive efforts for research and development in a fuel cell to effectively utilize a large quantity of by-product hydrogen in Yokkaichi industrial complex. Moreover “Monodukuri” technologies are integrated in the area and contribute to refine fuel cells; the miniaturization. The reduction in cost. the improvement in durability.
“The model area based on fuel cell technologies” is promoted by Mie prefecture towards the hydrogen-energy-based society. It will enhance further the connection among the industries related with automobile, the electrical machinery. The electronic correlative industry, etc, applying cultivated technologies, know-how, talented people, infrastructures, and etc. In Mie Prefecture and will materialize into one of the best research-and-development bases, accumulating correlative industries of fuel cells in the prefecture.
