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California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen

Country_hacker writes "News site TBO.com is reporting ChevronTexaco has opened a hydrogen fuel station in Chino, California, and has plans to open five more. Servicing three (or more) Hyundai SUVs, these prototype fueling stations are a part of a five-year cost-sharing program put on by the Department of Energy. Could this be the 'egg' in the alternate fuels 'chicken or egg?' scenario?"

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  1. Re:What happened to ethanol? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    when's the last time the US has paid any attention to the rest of the world?

    for that matter. when's the last time the US has paid attention to common sense?

  2. Funding terrorism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As a long-time supporter of terrorism (through pirated movies, illegally-downloaded mp3s & fuel purchasing), I'd love to see a 'TerrorismOnline' site set-up where I can simply donate through Paypal. Surely it would be more effective for those of us wishing to contribute?

    Allahu Akhbar!... Alluha Akhbar?... Hail Jebus!

  3. Question by Frankie70 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do you need 5 Service Stations for 3 SUV's? If this experiment succeeds, this country will be flooded with Hydrogen Service Stations?

  4. Re:just catching up with development elsewhere ... by Moofie · · Score: 1, Troll

    Considering that Germany is about the size of one of the medium-to-large states in the US, I think the problems of nationwide rollout are a little different.

    But hey, that doesn't feed the anti-American sentiment, so it must be wrong.

    --
    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
  5. Re:just catching up with development elsewhere ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    countries like Germany already have started a nationwide rollout of Hydrogen fuel station

    Boy, what is it with Germans and hydrogen?

  6. Somebody set us up the bomb by dbIII · · Score: 0, Troll
    1 cold war era nuclear bomb could potentially generate enough hydrogen to run the state of texas's autos for 2-3 months or more
    Somebody set us up the bomb - now all this hydrogen is belong to us.

    I wish the nuclear trolls would think for a quarter of a second before posting stuff like this - how do you go about turning a nuclear warhead into a hydrogen generating plant? I know nuclear is supposed to be inherantly safe and radiation does not exist in one worldview, but I myself like the laws of physics.