[the invisib1e hand]

600 companies in Connecticut with ties to the fuel cell industry accounting for more than 2,500 jobs

4 jobs per company, +/-? that doesn't sound like an "industry" so much as an outsourcing machine.

[A.A. Cunningham]

Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen to make energy in a noncombustion process

Depends what type of fuel cell you're using. SOFC and MCFC platforms utilize combustion.

[hinckley buzzard]

UTC has been dealing with fuel cell research for fifty years--and now they are going to ditch fuel cells and go into tire making, a good old nineteenth century industry (Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber in 1844.) That ought to tell everyone everything they need to know about this "technology of the future."