Re:Fuel(Fool) cells

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Fuel Cells are great for orbiting spacecraft; Apollo 13 excepted.

But on the ground they are just another expensive stationary 'engine'.

We might be able to adapt out public transportation fleets, and routed trucks to H2 FC's but we'd need to derive the energy from 100% clean sources like distributed concentrating solar-thermal electric to make it viable.  It'll take 2 acres of panels to capture the energy to move each city bus each day.

Once the systems are in place the systems would last 20 years with no more O&M than the buses currently require, and *zero* fuel costs for the duration.  Perhaps a city planner would like to take a closer look at what we've got to say...

The Light is Green!