Artist’s rendering: 4.8 mw fuel cell power plant
date: label: date made
content: 1978
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Artist’s rendering of 4.8 MW (direct current) / 4.5 MW (alternating current) power plant to be built in New York City. The donor recalled that the plant was built in the Bedford–Stuyvesant area. He said that the plant had a special permit from the NY Fire Department through an “insider” but that person died prior to the project's completion. The new person insisted on a full review which took two years, by which time the cells had degraded to the point that the manufacturer would no longer guarantee functionality. The power plant also faced opposition from local residents concerned about an underground storage tank for naphtha fuel. The plant was abandoned and torn down in the 1980s without ever having operated. See: Matthew L. Wald, "Vote Due Tonight in Fight Over Con Ed Fuel Cell," New York Times (29 September 1977): 27; and “Give Con Ed’s Experiment a Chance,” New York Times, (20 August 1977): 20.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from John B. O’Sullivan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0006.03
label: accession number
content: 2008.0006
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0006.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fuel cell drawing
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/4 in x 24 1/4 in x 1 in; 46.355 cm x 61.595 cm x 2.54 cm