Volkswagen: Fuel-cell cars won’t save the world

I expected a comment like that.

Clearly, they have tested fuel cell vehicles. If they wanted to make them, they would. Don't forget that VW is one of the largest car companies in the world--as small as they seem in the US, they are huge in Europe and Asia.

Being a large company doesn't necessarily mean you have the best R&D available. Fuel cell vehicles are a ways off, and by the time they might come into play, the U.S. and Canada will have perfected the oil shale refining process, and be independent of foreign oil for automotive use; for the most part....just a prediction, mind you.

People ignore the fact that you won't be making that hydrogne without using carbon based fuel.

solar doesn't give you that much energy

43LE, that would be awesome. The idea of having your own fueling station. Long distance commuting should be left for public transportation (rail, air) but short distances could be fuel cell cars that you refill at home.

You can always have the station connected to the grid for back up power.

...and I'm holding onto the dream that someday we'll have a breakthrough and figure out how to get rid of nuclear waste...

It is discouraging to hear such pessimistic opinions from the man responsible for the R&D efforts of one of the largest car companies in the world. However, one can't escape the reality that with so many technologies one has to burn fuel in order to make fuel.

However, I recently read about a new discovery. An American scientist has discovered that if you expose seawater to a certain radio frequency, the seawater will burn! That would be a virtually limitless source of hydrogen energy if it proved to be cost-effective on a large scale. Who knows what lies around the corner?

Exactly. Look at where we were 100 years ago. Humans at that time had no idea what we'd be doing with technology today.

Who ever thought there would be something like the Internet? Most people still don't really understand it.