A glimpse of the future

[proggrrl]

The NY Times test-drives Honda's FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel cell car ready for consumer use.  How do I get a lease on this sucker?

Comments

[etilia76.livejournal.com]

super cool! And it looks nice too. If I needed a car I'd totally be interested to get such a thing. Luckily I live in a city where cars aren't really necessary, thanks to a very elaborate underground system.

[sui-generis.livejournal.com]

IMHO, They need to go straight to electric cars, like the Tesla, instead. The hydrogen cars produce relatively no pollution on their own, but making the fuel cells does.

(Though they make a fair point that it might be the other way around, in places where all or most of your electricity comes from coal burning plants. But those are on the way out too. Once we're using geothermal, wind, and solar, electric cars will be cleaner up and down the line than hydrogen.)

Hydrogen cars

[(Anonymous)]

These cars are not a solution unless the liquid hydrogen is manufactured using power that comes from solar, wind, water,
geothermal, etc... otherwise hydrocarbons are still being burned-just in a different manner.

-kraig