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 120 || AWSAR Awarded Popular Science Stories - 2019
The Curious Case of Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  Mr. Avinash Ingle*
Email: avingle11389@gmail.com
Ilooked at my wristwatch, it was 9.20pm already. I had just finished analyzing the results of an experiment performed earlier
that day. Starving, I hurried from my lab towards the hostel mess for dinner, when I received a call from Pankaj, a childhood friend, now working for a software firm in Bengaluru. After exchanging pleasantries, he casually asked, “Tell me about your research.” For a moment, it felt I was being interviewed for a job. But then I jolted back to reality.
I replied enthusiastically, “I am glad you asked. I am developing corrosion resistant and electrically conductive materials for hydrogen fuel cells.”
“Oh, hydrogen fuel cells!” he exclaimed. “I came across an article about hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the internet the other day.
It addressed the acute global warming and climate issues and how countries worldwide are extensively considering renewable technologies such as hydrogen fuel cells to overcome them,” his voice seemed fascinated by the concept.
“So tell me how grave this global climate crisis is?” enquired Pankaj curiously.
“It is more alarming and serious than we think. And it’s not that the world does not know. Distinguished climate scientists and environmentalists across the globe have been stressing about a potential climate crisis and the urgency to react rapidly yet sensibly about this catastrophic issue for decades. But, the silent generation and baby boomers gave a blind eye to these warnings and withered away the fossil resources deposited over millions of years, within half a century,” I informed. “But,
 * Mr. Avinash Ingle, PhD Scholar from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, is pursuing his research on “Development of Corrosion Resistant Coatings for Fuel Cells”. His popular science story entitled “The Curious Case of Hydrogen Fuel Cells” has been selected for AWSAR Award.























































































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