[calcowgirl]

Mr. Rasul says he expects to meet with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger next month about beginning the $200-million project, a key piece of infrastructure needed to make fuel cell-powered vehicles practical.

Another State priority, no doubt.

[Threepwood]

Christ speed the day! No need for Middle eastern oil would make the work a lot more secure. Even if we could reduce the need for it, this technology would be worth developing.

[Restorer]

I get so tired of this.

Hydrogen is not a fuel source. It is a potentially attractive non-polluting way of storing energy.

Think of it as a highly efficient battery.

[bolobaby]

Screw OPEC BUMP

[Jacquerie]

I guess I'll keep my '98 Ranger a few more years.

[zoyd]

One crucial reservation about hydrogen is whether it's even economical when the full-cycle cost of producing and distributing it are factored in.

But eventually it's hoped hydrogen will be made from water through electrolysis, which currently takes more energy than it produces.

Keep this in mind.

[JmyBryan]

A question for all the demolition folks.

I know this is speculative. But generally speaking, how hard would it be for a terrorist to ignite an H powered vehicle? How big a boom will one get?

Thanks in advance.

[doug9732]

This reminds me of the articles we used to see about fusion power. Any day they would have the problems worked out; any day!
Yawn.

[Doodle]

Hydrogen fuel cells move closer to reality

What a joke.

[Voltage]

The University of Iowa is working on a new process whereby you can put corn cobs directly in your fuel tank, completely avoiding Saudi Arabia.

Amazingly its being funded entirely by the farmers themselves, who have sworn off any government money!

It seems too good to be true!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"Here's an interesting statistic: If you take all of the power that's in the engines of the 50 million cars made a year, that's equal to the entire global installed electricity generating base," he says.

"You're making enough power every year in cars to power the whole world."

Now what does that really have to do with anything related to this article?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ballard Power Systems Ltd.,

These guys use to be located in Kansas City.

Wonder why they moved to Vancouver?

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[Amerigomag]

Funny how these articles always ignore the problems with the other byproduct of the electrolysis of sea water: Oxygen.

Lots of oxygen. Tons of oxygen and no where to put it. An acute poison in the quantities that we are proposing to produce.