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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. 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

  2. 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