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Old 08-21-2008, 03:57 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Re: Researchers Tout Gore-Tex Coating for Fuel-Cell Breakthrough

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Originally Posted by MisterMe View Post
They have this stuff called water. Perhaps, you've heard of it?

In places where they don't have water, hydrogen can also be reformed from natural gas.
Yeah, but water's pretty well-built stuff. Takes a boat-load of energy to take it apart. And that energy's got to come from somewhere, and might be more efficiently used to simply charge a battery. (Oh, yeah, and thre's the whole energy expenditure to compress and pump hydrogen into tanks . . . that takes another toll.)
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