I don't want to belabor this because -- well, because it's off topic. Long ago the EVDL decided that fuel cells were not part of its remit. (I love using that word. It's a verb that's also a noun with a completely different meaning. Ain't English grand?)
The founder of this list, Clyde Visser, didn't have such a narrow view. His charter -- which is still officially in effect -- says in part: "An electric vehicle is any vehicle which uses an electric motor as the primary or sole motive force. The energy storage device used to drive said motor can use any technology including, but not limited to, solar electric, electric battery, fuel cell, internal combustion engine coupled with a electric generator (hybrids), or any combination of these." But like any social organization, the EVDL has developed a sort of institutional culture. Some of it comes from explicitly asking the members what they wanted to discuss; some if it is just the way we've drifted over the years. (The EVDL is 25 years old. It even predates the web. The mind boggles.) As part of that culture, there are things that we've sort of tacitly agreed not to discuss in detail, though we might mention them in passing. Some of them are fuel cells, nuclear power, "free energy," and (outside of charging EVs) solar energy. And partisan politics. That's a big one. Let's just drop that steamin' ... uh ... hot potato right now. Whew. You can argue that this limits our understanding of the EV world, and even of the much larger world outside EVs. And you are probably right. So it goes. But just as you don't usually try to rent St Sebastian Catholic Church to celebrate your son's Bar Mitzvah, or schedule your daughter's First Communion at Beth El Temple, you're probably not going to get too far trying to convince this rather strongly anti-fuel-cell community that FCEVs are the way forward. OK? Thanks. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
