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Old 08-12-2009, 02:32 PM   #48 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
Fast-charging EV batteries would be the death of the HFCV, and even the fuel cell's strongest proponents admit it's a transient technology, rather than the final solution to our transportation energy needs.
There is something that has puzzled me for as long as I've known about fuel cells, which is why everyone focuses on hydrogen, with all its drawbacks. Is it just that it sounds so high-tech?

It's possible to have fuel cells that run on other things. I've seen articles about cells running on methanol Direct methanol fuel cell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and sugar Sugar-powered fuel cells are totally sweet - Ars Technica for instance. Yet virtually all the R&D goes into something that we KNOW has problems that are insoluble with current & foreseeable technology.
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