Patent ID: 8216432

Claim:
A method for conditioning at least one conditionable participant in a fuel cell reaction system, said fuel cell reaction system comprising an anode side and a cathode side and an ion flow direction between said anode side and said cathode side, comprising the steps of: applying at least one applied spectral energy conditioning pattern on said cathode side of said fuel cell reaction system, said applying occurring (1) perpendicular to the ion flow direction between said anode side and said cathode side; and (2) at a sufficient intensity and for a sufficient duration to condition the conditionable participant to form a conditioned participant, whereby said at least one applied spectral energy conditioning pattern comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of catalytic spectral energy conditioning pattern, catalytic spectral conditioning pattern, spectral conditioning catalyst, spectral energy conditioning catalyst, spectral conditioning environmental reaction condition and spectral conditioning pattern.