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Fuel Cell Powered Scooter

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alternative-ride dept.

!Freeky2BGeeky writes "In an article by Fuel Cell Works, Samsung Engineering announced that they've developed a Hydrogen-based scooter which can go 140Km on 6 liters of hydrogen. The downside? The process that produces the hydrogen uses a component in short supply."

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  1. Well, liberate the hell out of them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Free Tibet or something. If they got all the sodium-borate we need to drive around on our scooters, lucky for them.

  2. uh oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The downside is that there are only about 300 million tons of sodium borate worldwide, located mostly in Tibet, and that annual global production of sodium borohydride stands at 10,000 tons, it added.

    well, we know where Bush will be sending the troops to next year.

    mods: it's a joke

    1. Re:uh oh by halowolf · · Score: 3, Funny
      mods: it's a joke

      I'm sorry all humour is forfeit from a joke when you explain that it is one.

    2. Re:uh oh by foniksonik · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't worry, as long as China has a lock on Tibet it's not a problem... I mean G.W.'s father did spew all over that Chinese consulate guy, I mean that's a bond that can't be broken... remember in junior high when your best friend beat you up or you stood up to him? Throwing up on someone is the same thing... total bonding...

      Bam!

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      A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
    3. Re:uh oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      surely to 'protect the world's resources of sod-borate from terrorists', & then sell the mining contract on to...**insert campaign contributor, ol' school buddy, family friend here**

  3. hmm... by NightDragon · · Score: 5, Funny

    What happens when lightning strikes it? Does it explode in a big fireball as radio reporters scream "oh the humanity!"?

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    -ND
    1. Re:hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      What happens when lightning strikes it? Does it explode in a big fireball as radio reporters scream "oh the humanity!"?

      yes, i'm sure all these drivers will be going out with a big metal flag pole connected to their scooters. :)

    2. Re:hmm... by bombadillo · · Score: 2, Funny

      What happens when lightning strikes it? Does it explode in a big fireball as radio reporters scream "oh the humanity!"?

      Oh you just made a bad Slashdot faux paux. Prepare to be bombarded with information regarding the Hindenburg's frame actually being the problem. You had to bring up the ole Hindenburg. Prepare for the Karma whoring and google linking to begin.

  4. Fuel-cell powered! by Skadet · · Score: 1, Funny

    *loads up on D batteries*

    What? that's not the fuel cell?

    *loads up on carbohydrates*

    What'd you say? Not that one either?

    Crap. Time to RTFA i guess...

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    Sony ha
  5. So, my bicycle... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    can go 140 km on about 6 L of Coke.

  6. Re:It's either the infrasture.... by heptapod · · Score: 2, Funny

    As others have said, hydrogen is not an energy source, it was never intended to be.

    Tell that to the rest of the universe! Stupid, wasteful fusion-powered stars.