Re:Now I gotta carry methanol? (Score 1)

This completely nails the issue on the head. The entire thing I don't get about the entire fuel cell hype is the sudden need to carry fuel canisters along to recharge the system rather than simply being able to plug the laptop into an electrical socket. What is the point if the weight of the fuel equals or exceeds that of an additional battery? How exactly is this better? Rather than creating an entirely new infrastructure to support the recharging of fuel cells for a moderate power density increase, the focus should be on improving the power density of traditional battery technologies and developing new ones. That way, rather than reinventing the wheel, we can utilize the existing and pretty much ubiquitous power grid to recharge the device. The Lithium Ion batteries using nano Lithium Ion particles for an exponential increase of power density, mentioned in Wired this month, would seem to be a better approach to solving the problem.