I have written a flexible printf debugging package, it can be found here. It is fully documented, but I have only used it myself. I figured I might as well release it since it is on-topic for this Slashdot post. Consider it an alpha release, because the API may change and I haven't done any testing outside my own systems.
I worked at Los Alamos National Lab on fuel cell research two years ago. At least in the fuel cell field, I can tell you that the reasons you haven't seen fuel cell cars or any other reasonable electric cars is that they cost too much! In the case of fuel cells, the materials costs eat you up. However, there are material science advances every year, and the materials prices are coming down.
One of the really big problems is that we Americans want our cars to be big and accelerate like bats out of hell. For the early versions of fuel cell cars to be affordable, they will be forced to have less raw power. There are cars you can buy today that get 50 mpg. Do people buy them? No. They are wimpy and in a crash, you die. When there are fuel cell cars that get 100 mpg, will people buy them? Why would it be any different?
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I have written a flexible printf debugging package, it can be found here. It is fully documented, but I have only used it myself. I figured I might as well release it since it is on-topic for this Slashdot post. Consider it an alpha release, because the API may change and I haven't done any testing outside my own systems.
I doubt if it has to do with conspiracies.
I worked at Los Alamos National Lab on fuel cell research two years ago. At least in the fuel cell field, I can tell you that the reasons you haven't seen fuel cell cars or any other reasonable electric cars is that they cost too much! In the case of fuel cells, the materials costs eat you up. However, there are material science advances every year, and the materials prices are coming down.
One of the really big problems is that we Americans want our cars to be big and accelerate like bats out of hell. For the early versions of fuel cell cars to be affordable, they will be forced to have less raw power. There are cars you can buy today that get 50 mpg. Do people buy them? No. They are wimpy and in a crash, you die. When there are fuel cell cars that get 100 mpg, will people buy them? Why would it be any different?