Nano nickel, fuel cells, and what will be
Not that we really know our way around a fuel cell engine—at all—but it appears two companies called QuantumSphere and PolyFuel are all set (or hyped, anyway) to be on the ground level of enabling technology for the new car revolution: QuantumSphere's nano nickel process (patent pending) is expected to commoditise fuel cell catalysts by replacing expensive platinum with >20nm nickel droplets; just as PolyFuel's hydrocarbon-based cell membranes are expected to make the whole fuel cell operating temperature issue moot (Honda apparently used their gear to get that FCX made street legal this week). So while the next stop is probably not silent hydrogen powered cars, at least we're well on our way, yeah?
