JM> The BEST solution is fusion as one of its byproducts is
JM> hydrogen, which can be burned in fuel cells. The lowe
JM> efficiency (lower than IC engines), is more than offset by
JM> burning a 'waste' product of fusion and the combustion of the
JM> hydrogen is totally clean. The by product is water.
I beleive such a system is, at best, a few years off???? :) Decades, more 
likely. I've heard that another byproduct is radioactive material. Don't know 
how acurate my info is, but I think we are finding that there is no 'good' 
answer to this question. To produce power, we end up affecting something.
As to the elecric car from GM - we do not currently have a lightweight, 
efficient, and portable way to store massive amounts of electricity. This is 
the hold-up on any realistic electric vehicle. Califorina can pass all the 
laws it wants - nothing useful will come of it until we find a better 
ttery.
And, as many have mentioned, even then an electric vehicle doesn't lower 
energy use - it only moves the negative effects from within the cities to out 
wherever the power plant is.
Can you imagine the power brown-outs at 5:30pm when everyone pulls into their 
driveway & plugs in the vehicle???
Electric vehicles may find their nitche, but they have too many problems to 
offer any solutions in the near future.
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