Why the hell are people pushing this technology? Clearly, we won't have enough fossil fuels to run all this crap, and if we make synthetic ones, it will be expensive as hell. I thought the whole point was to make the world cleaner. And even though they say they can use Hydrogen, that is not the answer. What's wrong with researching extremely efficient batteries instead?
These things run on methanol (wood alcohol, the stuff in windshield wiper fluid) which is cheap to make. Having a small bottle around to squirt in a little fuel as needed is attractive, you could run your laptop/UMPC/camera/ray gun/adult toy/GPS/other small device almost continuously without turning it off to change a battery.
Also, every battery maker on earth is researching how to make extremely efficient batteries. Battery technology is driven by overcoming problems with chemistry, not by making transistors smaller. A much bigger hurdle to surmount.
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Why the hell are people pushing this technology? Clearly, we won't have enough fossil fuels to run all this crap, and if we make synthetic ones, it will be expensive as hell. I thought the whole point was to make the world cleaner. And even though they say they can use Hydrogen, that is not the answer. What's wrong with researching extremely efficient batteries instead?
These things run on methanol (wood alcohol, the stuff in windshield wiper fluid) which is cheap to make. Having a small bottle around to squirt in a little fuel as needed is attractive, you could run your laptop/UMPC/camera/ray gun/adult toy/GPS/other small device almost continuously without turning it off to change a battery.
Also, every battery maker on earth is researching how to make extremely efficient batteries. Battery technology is driven by overcoming problems with chemistry, not by making transistors smaller. A much bigger hurdle to surmount.