In article , Steve Firth
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Jon Porter wrote:

My employers are to be commended for their efforts in this area

Why? Other than the fact that they are your employer that is? What is
runnign three hugely expensive, impractical buses around London while
using an unsustainable fuel source going to prove? That some companies
are adept at obtaining massive government subsidies for pointless
exercises?

and they plainly state the origin of the hydrogen and the method used to
produce it in all the press releases. At least they are doing something to
advance this technology and not sniping with inaccurate comment at the
sidelines.

If you could identify what you see as innacurate comment, I would be
most interested to review your views for accuracy.

In the meantime I shall look to the sky to see how your pie is cooking.


Well, the real point is that fuel cells will become a universal power
source - the military already use them in numbers, and there will be
fuelcell laptops on the market almost certainly by the end of this year
(Toshiba and NEC have devices close to market) with cell phones close
behind. You still haven't explained why the production of hydrogen in a
single place, where emissions are far more easily regulated and cleaned
- economies of scale make regulation and technology much more affordable
and efficient - is not preferable to loads of small, badly maintained
emissions generators (vehicles) pushing out pollutants at street-level
in centres of population. And, of course, for a company like BOC, CO2 is
a saleable by-product, not a vented emission.

Which, of course, is the nub - Governments recognised the harm not being
able to control emissions from individual sources does, so currently
fuel cells are a natural progression in the legislation led drive for
zero-emission vehicles. By focussing on vehicles, the authorities are
not looking for a holistic approach, but a pragmatic one.

And, whether you like it or not, fuel cells are currently winning the
race to provide zero-emission motive power for vehicles, to comply with
that legislation.

The pie has be cooked and is being eaten - take you head out of the sand
and look.

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