Outdoor retailers laud fuel cell

SALT LAKE CITY – For power on the go, just add water.

“You add water to [the machine that looks like an espresso maker], the water molecule is broken and hydrogen gets stored into a fuel cell,´ said Ryan Perry, Wyoming outdoor manufacturer Brunton’s product category manager.

In other words, Brunton has essentially figured out a way to safely extract electricity from water. And people are noticing the technology, dubbed the Hydrogen Reactor. Both the Gear Institute and Gear Junkie awarded Best in Show awards to the Wyoming manufacturer with offices in Boulder during the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market last week in…