Jim Dunmyer wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
 JD> Discussing fuel cells:
 > That's a good point.  What did the earlier ones use for fuel?  
 > I have a vague recollection of reading about them but can't 
 > recall what they used offhand.
 JD> Most require hydrogen in one form or another, and it's easiest 
 JD> from the fuel cell technology viewpoint to simply supply the 
 JD> pure gas. However, hydrogen as a fuel has lots of problems, 
 JD> especially on a large commercial scale. IE: there simply isn't 
 JD> any infrastructure.
Yeah,  that and its tendency to leak out of whatever container you're storing 
it in...
 JD> Ford Motor Company is the leader in manufacturing 
 JD> alternative-fueled vehicles and is having an awful time because 
 JD> of this. Where do you go to get your natural-gas fueled auto 
 JD> filled up? :-)
There seem to be plenty of places around here that sell bottled gas,  lots of 
places that use gas-operated forklifts,  and just about every convenience 
store in the area has a rack of bottles in front of it of the sort you see 
used with gas barbecues and RVs and such.  I have a brand new empty bottle in 
the camper out here,  and plan to take it to a place that does this stuff so 
that they can purge it properly before I go ahead and fill it.  Oh,  and most 
of the mobile homes I know of use bottled gas for cooking,  and some use it 
for heating as well.
 JD> That's why this fuel cell that uses gasoline is so attractive. 
Yep,  makes sense to me...
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