📗 Libro en inglés ZOOM: THE GLOBAL RACE TO FUEL THE CAR OF THE FUTURE

It is refreshing to find a hydrogen advocate who has actu­ally come up with the goods. After all, plenty of grandiose but unsubstantiated claims have been made over the past few years about the potential for hydrogen to replace fossil fuels as an en­ergy carrier, so some skepticism is certainly in order. In particu­lar, George Bush and the big car manufacturers have crowned fuel cells as the long-awaited replacement for the internal ­combustion engine, but the date of commercialization for those automotive fuel cells somehow keeps slipping just beyond the horizon. Many argue that hydrogen is just a cynical long-term diversion used by Bush and Detroit to avoid short-term action on fuel-economy standards, plug-in hybrids, or other here-and­-flow options.