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To: hmaly who wrote (124067)	9/17/2000 11:22:55 AM
From: jbkelle	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572139

hmaly, What you described is the hydrogen economy, with hydrogen extracted from methanol or gasoline through an on-board reformer. Each of the auto companies has developed an approach here...I worked on one of them. Additionally, problems of on-board hydrogen storage have been worked on and solved...see recent PR on storage tanks, hydrides, etc. These will be needed for specialty applications where the hydrogen on-board will be safer than other things currently on-board. However, that's not the way the hydrogen economy will roll out for the majority of us...the revolution in nanotechnology and microsystems will minimize a lot of bulk hydrogen handling issues...microfuelcells manufactured using semiconductor processing technology allow serious power to be produced on a chip without bulk hydrogen storage, and can be integrated into virtually every device that draws power. JBK