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To: Clappy who wrote (73581)	11/19/2008 3:06:45 PM
From: elpolvo	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104218

...a federally backed fuel cell infrastructure... hmmmmm... <thinking> haven't heard much support for hydrogen fuel cells lately. i think maybe there's a scientific brick wall in that technology right now. when it comes to infrastructure buildout we've been leaders for a hunnerd years or so because we had the resources. with the speed of technological innovation these daze there's a phenomenon called "leap frogging" that is helping countries with fewer resources catch up to us. ferinstance... a communications infrastructure... thousands of miles of copper wire and optic cable... that infrastructure cost us billions to put in place. it's served us well but with the advent of wireless cell phones and wireless data transmission, less affluent countries who were waaaay behind us in the communications infrastructure were able to take advantage and bybass the billions it took to build it. this is good, i like to see the resources of the world shared more equitably. the point i'm getting to (eventually) is that it may be our turn to let someone else pay to build this new transport infrastructure that we can leap over when something more efficient and economical arrives on the scene. i don't see any magic bullet yet that we can afford to build out. (for the next 30-50 years) we can get by with our present transportation infrastructure if we modify it to accommodate natural gas for auto and truck fuel and we build wind and solar power plants to lessen our consumption of oil and gasoline. (i think t. boone has a good idea here). meanwhile, the world's network of innovators and inventors can be working out the bugs of the new PT (personal transport) 3.0 software. when someone else proves through actual field use that PT 3.0 is economically and ecologically feasible... THEN we can leap frog our dubious fuel cell infrastructure and land directly on PT 3.0.35 or PT 3.1 infrastructure. we get to bypass the alpha and beta phases and get all the benefits of a new (field tested and proven) personal transport operating system. -frugalman