Fuel Cell Powered Home Appliance?

[Elektrotechnik]

What would it take to power a home appliance (washer, dryer, refrigerator) with a fuel cell?

Instead of a high-output fuel cell powering the entire home, I am wondering about the feasibility of each appliance with its own fuel cell.

 

[GoldDigger]

What would it take to power a home appliance (washer, dryer, refrigerator) with a fuel cell?

Instead of a high-output fuel cell powering the entire home, I am wondering about the feasibility of each appliance with its own fuel cell.

Depends on what the fuel input to the fuel cell (FC) is, what the exhaust byproducts are, whether the FC is safe enough to be located inside, economies of scale inf construction of an FC, etc. An FC takes up a bunch of space, so putting one next to each appliance may take up too much expensive space.
Similar discussions apply to things like zinc-air batteries.

An interesting question, to which I do not have a pat answer, just some more speculations.

 

[gadfly56]

What would it take to power a home appliance (washer, dryer, refrigerator) with a fuel cell?

Instead of a high-output fuel cell powering the entire home, I am wondering about the feasibility of each appliance with its own fuel cell.

As with many industrial processes, bigger is usually cheaper when it comes to power production. With current technologies, I doubt it would be economical to supply each appliance with it's own fuel cell for reasons GoldDigger pointed out. It's unlikely a whole house fuel cell is economical, unless the location is very remote and power cannot be run easily but fuel sources are handy.