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gizmodo.com - 8/25/2008
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I'm all for hydrogen—or any alternative fuel source for that matter (Shai Agassi, my man, let's get cooking already! )—but if you're going to heavily promote your cross-country trek as the "first ever" for hydrogen-powered vehicles, at least make sure large, 1,000-mile stretches of it did not involve having the vehicles carried along on flatbed trucks. This was the case today as the "Hydrogen ...
reuters.com - 8/25/2008
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reuters.com —
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hydrogen fuel cell cars
from nine automakers completed a 13-day cross-country trip this
weekend, in the first such mass U.S. crossing for vehicles powered by a zero-emission technology still in its infancy. As firsts go, the ...
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First mass U.S. crossing for hydrogen cars ...
gizmag.com - 8/25/2008
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gizmag.com —
An international team of researchers led by Monash
University has used manganese, a chemical involved in photosynthesis,
to split water into hydrogen and oxygen using only sunlight and an electrical potential of 1.2 volts. Scientists claim the process ...
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Artificial Photosynthesis provides clean, cheap Hydrogen
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Cross country trip is a bit bumpy for hydrogen based cars
Gadgetell —
... are needed, and I guess they accomplished that. Traveling 1,000 miles or more on a flatbed truck severely increases the carbon footprint of hydrogen cars.
It seems the best we can hope for is to have 2 million hydrogen vehicles on the road by 2020. I don’t know about you, but that seems to take quite a while. With numbers like that, the wait for an eventual partially solar powered Prius might just be worth it.
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