Can Protons in Hydrogen Fuel Cells Generate Electrical Current Like Electrons?

[professor]

i was thinking over how a hydrogen fuel cell works, seperating the electrons and protons (into its ions like any other way of converting electrical energy to chemical) but i wondered if the protons as well as the electrons could be used as a current to creat a circuit such as the electrons do, or at the least could these protons be use to turn a magnetic ring around some metal to produce a secondary generator of power?

 

[ZapperZ]

i was thinking over how a hydrogen fuel cell works, seperating the electrons and protons (into its ions like any other way of converting electrical energy to chemical) but i wondered if the protons as well as the electrons could be used as a current to creat a circuit such as the electrons do, or at the least could these protons be use to turn a magnetic ring around some metal to produce a secondary generator of power?

How do you propose to have non-interacting mobile protons in a conductor?

Zz.

 

[russ_watters]

The protons are already used in a fuel cell as ions are used in a battery - they are what attract the electrons (sorta).