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Just forget the last part the astounding part is that the US and Germany are working together to make fuel cells, the great part is its not like the scientists who say "Its really very exciting in only 179 years when we are all dead and rotted we will have such and such technology!" No its more like in 15 years these fuel cell vehicles will be mass produced.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7335722/

Just forget the last part the astounding part is that the US and Germany are working together to make fuel cells, the great part is its not like the scientists who say "Its really very exciting in only 179 years when we are all dead and rotted we will have such and such technology!" No its more like in 15 years these fuel cell vehicles will be mass produced.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7335722/

Sounds good and they make hydrogen in alberta ;)

Wll, thank God. It's about time. Inflation will fall, incomes will rise, the trade deficit will fall and the economy will boom once we can cut doen on or eliminate a significant portion of oil consumption.

Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles!

Thank the Germans for coming up with some very useful innovations over the years.

Its important to remember that hydrogen is going to be greated from natural gas for a while as its the cheapest way to get hydrogen so this tech is not completely pollution free, but still much much cleaner than combustion engines...

Its important to remember that hydrogen is going to be greated from natural gas for a while as its the cheapest way to get hydrogen so this tech is not completely pollution free, but still much much cleaner than combustion engines...

Im not sure if they use that all the time though, I saw on CNN that the mayor of San Fransisco rented a hydrogen car put a paper cup under the exhaust pipe, turned the car on waited a while, than drank the excess water.

*imagining Urantia II hopping on this thread for the thermodepolymerization information*

Im not sure if they use that all the time though, I saw on CNN that the mayor of San Fransisco rented a hydrogen car put a paper cup under the exhaust pipe, turned the car on waited a while, than drank the excess water.


i gotta go ,but they make hydrogen now as we speak. Supposedly you can make a system that uses just water. It is extremely hard to do though, supposedly.

Untill then they will use hydrogen and you get that from natural gas.

Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles!

That lead to WWI and WWII :mad:

Thank the Germans for coming up with some very useful innovations over the years.

That, on the other hand, could lead into a brighter & cleaner future. :D

Thank the Germans for coming up with some very useful innovations over the years.

Guns? Lots of guns?

I think it's nice that we can see examples of cooperation between America and Germany, rather than a thread of "GRRRR, Americans are fat! Germans are too!"

After all, when you think about it, they're both two perfectly developed nations. I wish that we didn't have to taunt each other. As an American, I'm good friends with people of numerous nationalities, and I don't let that get in the way.

~Terra~

Its important to remember that hydrogen is going to be greated from natural gas for a while as its the cheapest way to get hydrogen so this tech is not completely pollution free, but still much much cleaner than combustion engines...
And not just that, but there is far more natural gas in the US and Canada than there is oil. It's also cheaper and more environmentally sound to get natural gas than oil! Storage is a little more expensive, but not that much. So, in the interim, Nat gas rocks!

Wll, thank God. It's about time. Inflation will fall, incomes will rise, the trade deficit will fall and the economy will boom once we can cut doen on or eliminate a significant portion of oil consumption.
not to mention that whole environment stuff...

That lead to WWI and WWII :mad:

The funny thing is that the phrase meant "Germany Above All The Other Provinces", as "Deutschland" was a province of Prussia. They just took it way out of context!

Now this is why I'm proud to have German heritage.

The funny thing is that the phrase meant "Germany Above All The Other Provinces", as "Deutschland" was a province of Prussia. They just took it way out of context!
Prussia was a province of Germany, not the other way around. The song refers to people's hope that the ideal of a single German identity should be above regional/provincial loyalties, because before 1871 Germany was split into hundreds of small independent countries. The song was intended to promote the unification of Germany, but after Germany was finally unified people started to interpret the song as advocating German domination over the rest of the world.

von der Maas bis an die Memel
von der Etsch bis an den Belt

After all, when you think about it, they're both two perfectly developed nations. I wish that we didn't have to taunt each other. As an American, I'm good friends with people of numerous nationalities, and I don't let that get in the way.

~Terra~

I hooked up with a German exchange student last week, does that count as international cooperation?

I hooked up with a German exchange student last week, does that count as international cooperation?

It counts as paving the way, dude. :D

I think it's nice that we can see examples of cooperation between America and Germany, rather than a thread of "GRRRR, Americans are fat! Germans are too!"

After all, when you think about it, they're both two perfectly developed nations. I wish that we didn't have to taunt each other. As an American, I'm good friends with people of numerous nationalities, and I don't let that get in the way.

~Terra~
Amen to that!

Well, if I wouldn't read every 5 years that the fuel cell would come in 10 years, I'd be more enthusiastic about it.

But I think "we" have tested the technology long enough in our submarines now. :P

The biggest problem is the Hydrogen, though. It's not cheap to produce, but as I've recently seen there are a few quite interesting methods of hydrogen production tested by now. The most favoured seems to be a tanker like ship with a wind generator that produces the stuff offshore.

Fran