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To: TimF who wrote (308788)	11/2/2006 3:21:03 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572987

"CA, combined with the other states, is enough to get production started." Obviously it isn't. There isn't any particular reason for solar cells to be as expensive as they are except they are a low volume product. "Next step: How to run our cars using solar power ..." Two different issues. Running our cars with solar power simply means an electric car. The roadblocks to an electric car is power storage and nothing else. The auto industry like to see a range of about 300 miles. For an electric car, that is a tough nut to crack. Now EEStor's ultracapacitor could do it. So can fuel cells. But ultracaps aren't here yet, and fuel cells have the hydrogen storage problem. If EEStor is really in pilot production, then things could change pretty quick. If someone can work out a way to regenerate sodium borohydride from sodium borate, then ditto for fuel cells. Because even if you reform hydrocarbons to generate hydrogen, it is more efficient to run an automobile off of a fuel cell than burning it in an IC engine.