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Old 5th August 2008, 14:40
JohnInStockie JohnInStockie is offline
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Originally Posted by flecc View Post
... fuel cells will likely be in use first and solve all these problems.
I am not so sure they will solve our problems Flecc, I think one of our big problems is the deemed prerequisite for a mobile fuel source, and the fuel cell just replaces the fuel tank in this. As I understand it, making fuel cells is not at all cheap, and then there is the manufacture, recycling of empty cells, transportation, distribution.......all things we should be moving away from.

With a battery, the energy production is taken away from the vehicle, and can be controlled by a central source that can invest (if they have the will) in cleaner technologies for electricity production in the first instance.

John
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