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we'll all drown!!
"Jon Porter" wrote in message ... "Steve Firth" wrote in message .. . Steve wrote: Well, the real point is that fuel cells will become a universal power source - the military already use them in numbers, You missed out the word "small" that should be inserted before "numbers". and there will be fuelcell laptops on the market almost certainly by the end of this year Almost certainly not. (Toshiba and NEC have devices close to market) with cell phones close behind. One of my clients is *the* leader in the development of small fuel cells. Even they are not so stupid as to claim that they will be on the market by the end of this year. Would that be AEA Technology, Hitachi Industries, Siemens, Mercedes, BMW, NASA. Maybe General Motors, Toyota, Ford, (plus a couple of very impressive East European companies who I will not try and spell!) I'm sure they have all put all those millions in just to see it wasted but of course you know better than them. The money going into clean fuel production and cheaper catalytic processes isn't small either. Fuel cell technology has a future, development is continually assessed and both private and public money is funding the research. One of the funding companies being my employer. Several Universities on this side of the pond benefiting from the research funding being made available. We like our researchers to have open minds and receptive to fresh thinking. There are an awful lot of very bright researchers out there and all the above companies are putting money into University coffers. The results are very encouraging, as are the future prospects for those researchers who get the results. But all research has to start somewhere and that is what we are doing with our fuel cell buses. There are even some fuel cell powered locomotives beginning trials across the pond. All of which is being followed closely over here. Late at night and a little tired, but this response was addressed to Mr. Firth, sorry for any confusion caused to the other Steve. |
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