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...It’s safe to say we’re exploring all the other alternatives out there—electric, biodiesel, hydrogen fuel cell,” he said. “As the cost relating to acquiring alternative fuel vehicles comes down and the infrastructure to support it increases, it makes it easier to acquire those vehicles...
BAVARIA: We have owned hydrogen technologies wherever we can in our investment portfolios. In the short run, they don't look like very good investments. This is one of the barriers. Even big companies, which may want to do something, still face a five- or seven-year payoff. Up front, it is a huge capital outlay. They feel hamstrung because of the shareholders and Wall Street...
LANCASTER: We are starting to see out of the Department of Energy a vision of where they want to take energy, and therefore technology, in the U.S. This vision is for a hydrogen economy. Time lines are still way out there...
...relief of Egyptologists, today there's no need to keep grinding up those mummies. In 1856, William Henry Perkin, a bright, just-18-year-old chemistry student, was looking for a synthetic substitute for quinine, a cure for malaria. Perkin was at home, doing experiments infusing coal tar with hydrogen and oxygen?and had failed. Washing out his test tubes, he noticed a residue that resulted in a "strangely beautiful color"?mauve. Hidden inside a lump of coal tar, writes Finlay, was "the potential for thousands of colors." This is where most of our dyes come from...
...prototype, and getting the first production units on the road by 2010 would require the notoriously sluggish auto industry to shift gears a lot faster than usual. For one thing, the roadside infrastructure that fuels and services today's gas guzzlers would have to be redesigned to dispense hydrogen and reprogram faulty control systems. But if the result were a fleet of safe, fuel-efficient, nonpolluting cars and trucks that reduced or eliminated the world's dependence on fossil fuel, it would be worth the effort. --By Anita Hamilton