The teaser for this entry in the newsletter read:
Honda PUYO: Powered by Fuel Cell, Steered by Joystick
Looking like something out of The Jetsons, the PUYO doesn't pollute.

Technically, the PUYO doesn't pollute (though it's tires will shed particulates on the roads), but a dollar will get you a space-time doughnut that manufacturing them does.

Just doing my part to get us all thinking a little bigger about things.

OhDotOh

I just love how everyone ignores the fact that making the hydrogen for the fuel cells is less efficient than using regular gasoline in a car. It always seems like people think that electricity just magically pores out of the wall when they need to type up there blog, but all other forms of energy have some kind of monetary and environmental cost.

hydrohead makes a good point, but let us not forget that oil is also somewhat expensive to process (we don't just pump it from the ground into our cars). Not certain of the exact history of it, but I wouldn't be surprized if oil was once very expensive to process. (Although what you mean electricity doesn't magically pop from the walls!! Next thing you're gonna tell me vegetables don't grow at the super market! Ha!)

By the way, cool sign-on name, mine's based on a poet who shares my last name.

Also, those cars are my little pony, hello kitty cute! I want mine in pink! (They look like they're made of pillows - which is the kind of car I've always wanted! How did the Japanese know!!)

yes, there is a money cost to pumping oil out of the ground, and an energy cost as well, it is energy cost effective in that the amount of energy you get from oil is more than you used pumping it and refining it and transporting it. In that respect, oil is still cheep. Yes, oil is just shy of $100 a barrel today, but that is just a market price and could just as easily be $10 and OPEC would still make a porfet. With hydrogen though, unless there is some major breakthrough in either chemistry or physics, it will always cost more energy to make hydrogen than you can ever hope to get out of it.

Wow, that thing is ugly as sin. It's like a hollowed-out whale on scooter wheels.

I am a person who thinks this is the greatest in vention for a car since the Model T. I have a hard time getting in and out of conventional cars of today since my accident. Now I see this car and I wish I could have one to show how great they are. John B.Gilgenbach,

Yes at present oil is cheaper than hydrogen or electricity but once we clean up the pollution from gasoline powered vehicles, our oxygen will be cleaner and richer and by that virtue we will make more intelligent decisions because we can. Oxygen is the most potent substance that a human species of animal can snort.

As it was in 1980 with our computers, it will be with our fuel celled vehicles, today a 40 mile battery, tomorrow 80 and etc. Plus we will be more intelligent just from not having to breathe that oxygen robbing pollution that comes from the tail pipe. A gallon of gas is about 6 pounds and from that we get gobs of pollution entering our atmosphere and making us sick? Multiply all running gasoline engines by that figure worldwide and see what we are doing to ourselves. What is our health worth?

Rod