You should be promoted to news editor of Slashdot.
Very typical:
- Slashdot posts a completely bogus rumor on a hot, forum-friendly topic
- Thousands of people post about the story endlessly.
- Someone identifies the whole story as bogus and explains it in a post.
- The one relevant post in the whole topic is completely obsucred at the bottom of the discussion page.
- People still don't notice that the slashdot story is bogus and continue to read and indessantly debate the issue.
For industry, the advantage of hydrogen is that it's so far in the future: it means they don't have to make changes now
Nonsense! That's standard auto-industry-hating nonsense.
I've talked with car designers/engineers, I've heard from or read interviews with many scientists that I know and respect, and I've done limited academic research on my own into hydrogen fuel cells.
The technology won't be mainstream in cars for a good 10 years. However, it is already used in competitive practical applications NOW and has much more potential than technologies like gas-electric hybrids.
If this technology was nonsense, you wouldn't see so many science types excited about it and starting actual companies around it; many of these have nothing to do with cars. Also, every major car manufacturer is investing into this. Even the green auto leader, Honda, has been a very strong backer of this technology.
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You should be promoted to news editor of Slashdot.
Very typical:
- Slashdot posts a completely bogus rumor on a hot, forum-friendly topic
- Thousands of people post about the story endlessly.
- Someone identifies the whole story as bogus and explains it in a post.
- The one relevant post in the whole topic is completely obsucred at the bottom of the discussion page.
- People still don't notice that the slashdot story is bogus and continue to read and indessantly debate the issue.
The technology won't be mainstream in cars for a good 10 years. However, it is already used in competitive practical applications NOW and has much more potential than technologies like gas-electric hybrids.
If this technology was nonsense, you wouldn't see so many science types excited about it and starting actual companies around it; many of these have nothing to do with cars. Also, every major car manufacturer is investing into this. Even the green auto leader, Honda, has been a very strong backer of this technology.
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