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RE: Ah HA!
By puckalicious on 9/26/2009 7:07:49 AM , Rating: 1
All of GM's investment in fuel cells happened before the recession and bankruptcy.

The article has misleading/inconsistent "generation" labels on the fuel cell technology. The Equinox had GM's 4th gen, and it is the 5th gen that will be ready in 2015. I think GM itself confused matters in the press release calling the 2015 version it's 2nd gen which is not really correct.

This is all wasted money IMO. Hydrogen is created from either fossil fuels or from water. Both methods require a lot of electricity as input, then in the fuel cell the hydrogen is combined with oxygen to create electricity. So the hydrogen is just basically a battery, and is incredibly inefficient compared to the latest lithium ion batteries. It would be a much wiser investment to upgrade our electrical grid than to create a new hydrogen grid from whole cloth.

RE: Ah HA!
By Autisticgramma on 10/2/2009 2:24:57 PM , Rating: 2
Search the 'Net, Multiple people have built their own H2 from H2O systems, in their homes. The systems include storage, generation, pumping and compression. All on Solar, its more than possible, and in your hands.

Is just one.

Yes the initial investment is kinda huge for most people, but if you saved your Iphone bill for a year you have your initial investment.

Additionally, I think the infrastructure is there, think natural gas lines, (if this scheme has to be central, ridiculous imo) how much fuel could we save not trucking fuel?

