On Sunday 10 April 2005 14.04, you wrote: > On 10 Apr 2005 at 7:14, PeterO wrote: > > I wonder when fuels cells will become effective and commonplace! > > Toshiba announced earlier this year that it will start shipping > methanol fuel cells by the end of 2005. This I heard on Discovery > Channle's Daily Planet news show. Target products are laptop > batteries and things like that. I can't find a reference to the > announcement, but here's an earlier article. > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3837585.stm> > > Too bad it isn't an ethanol fuel cell. Then, in an emergency you > could fuel it with your booze supply. In a real emergency, you could > drink your battery. "Sir, why didn't you use your VHF to contact the coastguard?" "I had drunk all the fuel!" Tord *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Apr 10 2005 - 12:27:48 PDT
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