Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Mazda's hydrogen hybrid: Isn't the hydrogen highway closed?

Does hydrogen matter, even if it is a hydrogen hybrid?Now if I could only find that hydrogen filling station

So, Mazda has received permission from the Japanese government to start leasing the Mazda hydrogen hybrid. Cool, right, especially since this hybrid can burn both gasoline and hydrogen?

Still, now the President Obama has put the kibosh on hydrogen funding, isn't the hydrogen highway closed here in America? Does hydrogen still matter?

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At 9:04 AM, Blogger Algosome said...

Steven Chu is no dummy. Maybe he thought that the hydrogen economy could take care of itself. But the flex-fuel path to hydrogen has been closed off even further, since the most obvious term for the fuel, "hythane" has been trademarked. Unlike patents, trademarks are forever, so any potential participants in this industry will have to come up with a new, less intuitive name for their product.

 

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