14 October 2004

Powered by sunlight

Powered by sunlight: "'Nobody has ever made a car that runs on sunlight and water,' Waxman said. 'There are other cars that run on hydrogen, but they don't make their own fuel.'

Built for less than $10,000, the project has caught the attention of experts in alternative-fuel research."



This deserves reading if only because if they could devellop this it could solve some of the foreseen difficulties of a hydrogen economy which are around storage and distribution [hydrogen molecules are pretty small and tend to leak through the larger molecules of pipes and containers]. It does mean a decentralised power source too which is probably good news for security and scaling.

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