Fuel cell cars shown at U.N. conference

"Aside from a few odd names and identification logos plastered to their roofs and flanks, the cars assembled on the green of San Francisco's Civic Center on Wednesday looked like, smelled like and, well, drove like most of the quiet, comfortable if not very exciting cars you can buy in any American showroom for $25,000 or so.

There were only two differences: Each of these nearly hand-made cars may well have cost $1 million -- General Motors puts that price tag on its "HydroGen3" -- and their power plants run on hydrogen, a fuel not easily found at the corner gas station. "

Hydrogen Cars at U.N. Conference.
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Now if I had to put my money on anyone making a marketable fuel cell car guess who it would be? Yep...Toyota. They've got the best hybrid technology which will be getting us by until they develop the best fuel cell technology.

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"Some critics of fuel cell technology say that because the production of hydrogen is a byproduct of the gasoline refining process, the green benefits of nonpolluting fuel cell cars are canceled out. But Toyota environmental spokeswoman Cindy Knight said efforts are already being made to produce hydrogen without fouling the air.

For example, she said, the "dream" method is to produce hydrogen by splitting oxygen and hydrogen from water through a solar-powered hydrolysis process.

"In talking about the way we get hydrogen, we have to make it sustainable," Knight said, "making sure we don't create more pollution than we're trying to (eliminate)." "

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Yep....Toyota is taking this seriously. This isn't just posturing or an exercise in let's pretend for the government. If anyone cracks it....they will.