Hydrongen cars - here NOW!
Although they are a little small.
But, if they can build a toy hydrogen fuel cell car now, what will they be able to do in ten years?
Probably nothing if it is left up to American car companies. But ... I could be wrong.
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Labels: autos, fuel conservation, technology
posted by Clemens @ 2:19 PM
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2 Comments:
The hype over hydrogen is misplaced in my not so humble opinion. The reason why fuel cells seem attractive to us is because we are stuck in the
gas station mentality.
Instead of using electricity to split dihydrogenmonoxide into it's components, trash electrolysis and start worrying about how to improve battery technology.
Instead of:
Electricity - Water - Fuel Cell - Customer's Car
Think:
Electricity - Customer's car. Nightly charging will get us around.
Right now battery technology is sufficiently advanced to allow for 100km trips per charge. This covers, oh say, 99% of my trips.
Now people aren't going to buy a car that limits them to 100km (60 miles) but they need not have the trade off. Gas electric hybrids while not inspiring the warm fuzzy feelings of being an 100% green environmental goody two shoes, will achieve the objective fuel conservation and lower CO2 emissions*
--Joey
*It conserves fuel...sort of. You are exchanging millions of internal combustion engines for a smoke stack at your local utility (which is far easier to scrub). It is a different fuel.
PS we could also use nuclear if the nutty NIMBY crowd weren't such panicky petes.
No no. I'm holding out for a methane fueled car.
It could run on bat guano.
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