The world needs a new source of energy, an unspillable source.

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  1. No it isn’t.

    Per Dictionary.com

    Fuel is something consumed to produce energy, especially:
    A material such as wood, coal, gas, or oil burned to produce heat or power. Fissionable material used in a nuclear reactor. Nutritive material metabolized by a living organism; food. OR:
    Something that maintains or stimulates an activity or emotion: “Money is the fuel of a volunteer organization” (Natalie de Combray).

    Voltaic & Electrolytic cells are both ways to store/provide electricity, which is a kind of fuel, arguably.

  2. A fuel cell is neither a voltaic or an electrolytic cell. The ref. defines a voltaic cell as generating electrical energy from expendable reactants and based on a spontaneous electrochemical reaction. It may be rechargeable or not. Electrolytic cells are defined as based on an electrically forced electrochemical reaction. In what seems to be a technicality, fuel cells are not classified as voltaic since they operate on a continuous flow of reactants.

Is a fuel a Voltaic cell or an Electrolytic cell?