[DGHoodini]

This could be big.

[Mechanicos]

Very interesting.

[ryan71]

In 5 to 10 years we'll have so many proven technologies to choose from we won't know what to do.

At least, when you read all these stories that's what they're telling us..

[Moonman62]

The company hopes to have a practical version of the new catalyst ready in fiscal 2009

In other words, this is vaporware. Next.

[null and void]

Indeed! Hugh and Series, too!

All kidding aside, if this pans out it just changed the whole energy equation.

[AU72]

This years jack-up of oil results in could move forward by years technology that will cause Saudi Arabia’s biggest export to be sand.

[Old Professer]

Oh yes, now, as the article says, all that’s left is to develop the non-existent hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[fella]

But yoy still have to split the H from the O2 and that takes energy.

[Nathan Zachary]

This could be big.

Or not. Carbon has been used for a long time in electrode stacks. It's reducing the amount of expensive rare catalytic metals like platinum that's important and would bring these things into the affordable range.

There is a lot of research going on in this area and several different methods for reducing cost and improving electrode efficiency such as carbon nano tubes.

Direct methanol fuel cells will probably be the first fuel cells you see in autos because of their high power output- if they can get the cost of the fuel cell down.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi