On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Tyler Durden wrote: > And don't forget his promise that we'll all be able to buy Hydrogen-powered > cars by 2020 or so. Guess that's how long he thinks this war on terrorism
Don't get it: onboard fuel reforming with methanol is almost done, fuel cells with polymer proton membranes are already good enough (though still being optimized rapidly, particularly in terms of energy density and platinum group metal content) and GM's on the right track with their recent designs. Don't see why it shouldn't hit the markets by 2005. It's interesting that political science has witheld one of the oldest technologies (Grove started it 1838, Mond and Langer in 1889 attained 6 A/square foot energy density; Bockris publicized it in mid-70s again) from the general public. The interesting part is that we didn't use fuel cell technology on noticeable scale by 1980... Honi soit qui mal y pense. > will last (and its probability for ending!).
