Hydrogen Powered Toy Car

Harmonious Botch writes "CNN is reporting that Shanghai's Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies will soon begin sales of a tiny hydrogen fuel-cell car, complete with its own miniature solar-powered refueling station." From the article: "Automakers and energy companies view hydrogen fuel cells as a promising technology that could wean the world from its addiction to crude oil. But it's expensive and technological hurdles remain despite billions of dollars that have been poured into research."

All the cool stuff comes out after I grow up

[gwhenning]

So will all the kids be able to setup hydrogen stands when the real cars comeout?

I get...

[Anonymous Coward]

3 miles to a mole of hydrogen!!!

Re:Big Oil

[pete-classic]

I would like to withdraw my post in this thread. Seeing this guy get bitch-slapped by a Chemical Engineering Professor with a four-digit user ID was way better than what I said!

-Peter

Re:All the cool stuff comes out after I grow up

[dominique_cimafranca]

This is already the real thing. The next step is to breed smaller and smaller people so that they will be able to fit in a car like this. This will also solve the world's population density problem in the larger cities.

Just kidding.

Automakers response

[Anonymous Coward]

A true American drives an SUV.
Are tiny people gonna drive these tiny cars with tiny fuel cells?

Huh? Huh??? (while prodding someone smaller nearby)

And they think it's a toy?!

[Assassin bug]

Bwa hahaha ha HAaaaaaaaa...

Pinky: "Gee, Brain, what should we do tonight?"
Brain: "The same thing we do every night Pinky."
Pinky: "What's that Brain?"
Brain: "Try to take over the world!" ... WITH MY TOY CAR!!!

Swiftly thinking about it

[tepples]

The next step is to breed smaller and smaller people so that they will be able to fit in a car like this. This will also solve the world's population density problem in the larger cities.

That's a modest proposal [wikipedia.org]. Now how small would these people have to be? About 1/12 scale [wikipedia.org]?

Re:Water/hydrogen engine?

[kfg]

How about just putting water in your car and doing electrolysis on it . . .

Pretty cool idea. All we'd need to do is load the car up with a bunch of batteries. . .

KFG