In 10 to 15 years, we will see a lot of fuels cells out there, not the ones that could power a car, but the ones that can power a notebook, a flash light, toys, etc. My best guess will be ethanol or similar. Hydrogen maybe, but I doubt it when you can use methanol directly. The price threshold for this fuel cells are high and the price of fuel not an issue. The small fuel cells for ethanol or multi fuels are a "ready for use" technology, fuel cells in general not and hydrogen definitely not. We all know the serious problem with pollution from batteries and if fuel cells can reduce that, it will even go faster. It does not mean that the fuel cells themselves couldn't be a problem also, I have not research this, but the reuse in itself will reduce the pollution problem significantly.
Hakan At 06:19 PM 1/3/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Personally, I'm skeptical of fuel cells for mobile use > altogether. Hydrogen just > >presents more handling, storage and production issues than current > liquid fuels. > >I think you and I are on the same page on several of the issues you >mention. > >On the Hydrogen issue I'll reitterate that I don't equate that with >the question of whether fuel cells are viable, because Hydrogen is not >the only potential fuel cell fuel. I think a fuel cell can be >installed in a vehicle that can run off a compromise fuel, such as >methanol, or where a reformer can be installed to get hydrogen from >the methanol. > >In that case, the storage and production issues are somewaht altered. > From the article I read in evworld.com as to a Daimler Benz lengthy >methanol fuel cell trip, for example, the car sounded manageable. Not >ideal, but I didn't dismiss it out of hand as non-viable for public >use or something. Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
