Word: esso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...device on display at the Linden, N.J., laboratory of Esso Research & Engineering Co. looked like nothing more than an outsize storage battery draped with a tangle of plastic tubes.Like a battery, it was an entirely self-contained source of electricity, but it was far more than that. Esso's new fuel cell comes remarkably close to the achievement of a chemical engineer's dream: the use of a cheap fuel to pro duce practical amounts of electric cur rent without the aid of expensive engines or generators...
...oxygen to form water. In the process the hydrogen gives up electrons that flow out of the cell as electric current. But hydrogen is a touchy, expensive fuel, and since it is a very light gas, only small amounts can be stored in large, un wieldy pressure tanks. The Esso cell burns familiar methanol (wood alcohol) and gets its oxygen free, out of ordinary...
...Esso engineers admit that their fuel cell is too heavy and feeble at present to have many practical applications, but they are confident that it will soon lose weight and gain power. Fuel cells may never compete with such large sources of electricity as coal-burning power stations, but they are candidates for smaller jobs in which convenience and efficiency are important. They may soon find a use in space, contributing valuable water as a byproduct along with their electricity. On earth they may provide cheap, quiet electricity for homes, weather stations or microwave repeaters beyond the reach of commercial...
...Financially pressed, ENI last year was forced to accept ten oil companies as partners in the Trans-Alpine Line-ending forever its dream of monopolizing the Alpine pipelines to squeeze other big oil companies out of Central Europe. In return, it got 20-year commitments from Esso, Shell and British Petroleum to pump 4,000,000 tons of crude oil annually through its Central Europe line...
...trillion cubic meters) already constitute 70% of Europe's gas resources and bulk larger than all of Canada's. Dutch officials estimate privately that the field harbors nearly 2 trillion cubic meters. Groningen gas now reaches some 500,000 Dutch consumers, and early in December the Esso-Shell export consortium and the British Gas Council began jointly studying the feasibility of a $75 million pipeline across the North Sea that would let Dutch wells supply half of Britain's present gas needs. Belgium and Germany have signed up to buy a total of 10 billion cubic meters...