This is a big deal, but with everyone focused on Tesla and batteries, it will be overlooked by the Press.
Fuel cells have always been promising, due to higher efficiency and no pollution - but never really able to capture a market share. Now one huge remaining obstacle has been tackled. This vehicle is only available in LA but they will sell thousands of them in SoCal, since many commuters down there will save most of the lease cost by having free hydrogen. http://www.gizmag.com/2015-hyundai-tucson-fuel-cell-free-hydrogen/32488/ Of course, this would not be possible without cheap hydrogen, which is due to cheap methane, which is due to the oversupply of the shale gas bonanza, and for now - which is only in the USA... but ... the breakthrough can tie in nicely to a future LENR changeover. Of course - at some future time, "Sam" will tax hydrogen, but that is years away since the tree-huggers love hydrogen and they are a single issue voting bloc in California. They conveniently overlook that hydrogen comes from natural gas which does have some negatives. Since the Hyundai drive train has to be completely electrical, in order to work with the fuel cell - that means that the same platform (used with the hydrogen fuel cell) would be instantly adaptable to a version of LENR where direct electrical conversion was implemented. It could be almost as simple as a swap. Direct electrical conversion is not being talked about in a serious way in LENR so far - but look again at the picture of the hot cat Mats Lewan posted. That IR glow is photonic, and there are photocells which are tailored for IR, but none are efficient enough, for now. Prevenslik's old paper suggests a way. Proximity effects are most interesting. In fact, the HotCat itself is probably functioning on another kind of proximity effect - SPP. This paper could be 10 years ahead of its time. http://www.asian-energy-journal.info/Abstract/The%20cavity%20qed%20induced%2 0thermophotovoltaic%20effect.pdf As for picking investment winners based on a positive Rossi report - this is another reason not to go with steam conversion companies IMO. I would be looking at a maker of flexible quantum dot solar cells like ... err...Apple (http://bgr.com/2014/06/11/new-solar-cell-tech-colloidal-quantum-dots/). Anyway, given that IR photocells are available now - it is only a matter of time before someone figures out how to incorporate the proximity effect for efficient direct conversion, and at that point if you own one of the fuel cell vehicles, which you have already paid for with free hydrogen - then you can pull out the fuel cell and drop in a HotCat with IR converter. ... or not... :-) Jones
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