Newsday from New York, New York • 19

A19 Fuel cells in the city Seventeen commercial fuel cells are scattered across 11 locations in the city THE BASICS: A fuel cell converts chemical energy into electricity Rid Oxygen Electric charge 4 Waste products -i 31' When hydrogen gas is used for fuel water is the only waste product NIWSDAY PH 01 JULIA Diane Felix meets Panda a dog at the Manhattan shelter She and her fiance ended up bringing home Patches a bigger dog Doesn't run down like a battery keeps operating as long as it is supplied with fuel and air HOW A FUEL CELL WORKS: Cell is a sandwich Hydrogen passes over negative electrode of two electrodes with a membrane in between Oxygen (air) passes over positive electrode Shelters plea: adopt our pets Hydrogen 0 Most efficient fuel: Pure hydrogen and oxygen from the air Hydrogen gas is fed into one side of fuel cell A metal catalyst helps separate it into negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons Catalysts help nudge protons through the membrane On the other side the protons combine with oxygen 0 The imbalance in charge makes electric current flow Current is sent through a circuit and can be used to power electronics lights or a motor Protons combine with electrons arriving from negative side producing water Oxygen THE BENEFITS: Produces electricity for longer periods than batteries Weighs far less than a conventional battery Can use a variety of hydrogen-rich fuels including natural gas coal-derived gas landfill gas or alcohols Extremely efficient emits virtually no pollution Though the Staten Island facility had to euthanize because of crowding for several months supervisor Cindy DeWitt said the streak is about to end getting hit really hard with an enormous intake of DeWitt said Things any better at the Brooklyn facility Tm shelter manager Joyce Clemmons said just before closing time last night They a lot of people coining through she said and took in 36 animals including IS cats surrendered by one man But by the end of the day only 14 pets had been adopted As Allen continued her rounds 2S cats in 25 metal transport cages were stacked three and four high in one room They had just been brought from the Bronx receiving center as had two dogs tied in the hall because there were no cages free The driver was getting ready to return to the Bronx and bring down another vanload Meanwhile just one animal had been adopted so far that afternoon "We wanted to save a life and we want them to be put to said Diane Felix 24 a Bronx administrative assistant who with her fiance settled on Patches a friendly pit bull mix whose time almost ran out BY JEFF KEARNS STAFF WRITER Ruth Allen started the worst part of her job yesterday at about 3 pm pushing a cart with a laptop into a windowless kennel filled with the near-deafening sound of dogs barking and howling in metal cages As the manager of Animal Care Manhattan shelter Allen decides which animals live and die now that a dip in adoptions and a rise in surrenders and strays have filled city shelters to capacity first stop was outside the cage of a black-and-brown stray rottweiler picked up Tuesday in the Bronx and later classified as moderately aggressive not really adoptable so going on the Allen said On her laptop which connects wirelessly to the animal database she entered the code for her decision: EUTH Today she said the rottweiler will be taken to a room placed on a stainless steel table and overdosed with anesthesia Animal control officials say the overpopulation problem is citywide with all three adoption centers including those in Brooklyn and Staten Island full They suspect hot weather keeps away potential adopters circuit Total 1 cells Kilowatts percellj 200 BRONX LOCATIONS: Manhattan 1 The Durst Organization Conde Nast Building MANHATTAN STATEN ISLAND a QUEENS ID Man 94 dies in blaze BROOKLYN wwwnynewsdaycom NEWSDAY SUNDAY AUGUST 14 2005 in the fire but may have gone into cardiac arrest Neighbors said he was a nice man who was at one time being looked after by his daughter LINDSAY FABER NEWSDAY A 94-year-old man a longtime Manhattan resident was killed early yesterday in a fire in his building police said Nicholas DeCurtis was apparently asleep when a candle ignited the fire at 78 Christopher St in Greenwich Village around 2 am officials said Sixty firefighters responded to the scene at the five-story brick building and got the blaze under control by 2:40 am Investigators said they believe DeCurtis was not burned lic" said Jennifer Gangi program director of Fuel Cells 2000 a Washington DC nonprofit group like the first she added Daniel Hendrick is a frequent contributor to Newsday $4 billion for hydrogen and fuel cell research and projects have to have government support to pull this oft If they really believe in the technology and get it out there that will bnng the price down and make fuel cells more visible to the pub tablished funds or programs that boost clean-energy technologies like fuel cells And the federal government is one of the technology's largest supporters Just last week President George Bush signed a comprehensive energy bill that appropriates nearly Stun-gun arrest Off-duty transit worker is charged with assault after police say he used weapon in dispute!.