[Jeff Chandler]

I can’t help but wonder if this rush to convert to coal-powered cars might just be a bit premature, like the ridiculous GM convert-petrol-engines-to diesel crap in the 80s?

If it were market driven I would have more confidence in it.

[SunkenCiv]

I suspect that the use of natural gas to generate electricity (conventional plants, home generators as was tried in the 1970s in Italy, municipal-scale fuel cell installations) is going to head upward, bigtime, not least because the methane supply is literally 1000s of years' worth.

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methane fuel cells:

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