http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
Will probably be expensive since it's "alt-fuel" and "Mercedes".

On a side-note, it looks really good from the back. But looks really terrible from the front. Yah....the back is "Wow" but the front is "No, not now". Hehe.

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a "butterface," if you will.]]>Dec 17th 2008 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
"it looks really good from the back. But looks really terrible from the front. Yah....the back is "Wow" but the front is "No, not now". Hehe."

LOL I know a few people like that.]]>Dec 19th 2008 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
That being said, I just paid $1.80/gallon to fill my tank up, and I paid up to $4.32/gallon over the summer. If gas stays this low, all those 'Mericans might claim back their Suburbans and F350s.... who knows.

Not me though. I'd love to have a fast, fun to drive, all-electric car. Something about silently zipping to 60 in under 5 seconds, seems pretty damn fun to me, idk.]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
I disagree. I think everyone has been really spooked this time and I am hoping the incoming administration will be able to follow through on some of the alternative energy ideas.]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 19th 2008 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
http://www.vimeo.com/2461992]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/03/pininfarina-designed-b0-electric-car-debuts-at-paris-motor-show/]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
As I thought. When you can't argue really facts, you resort to name calling.]]>Dec 17th 2008 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
The governments of the world will not solve any technical or environmental dilemmas! Government cannot move at the speed of technology. Bill Clinton was pushing for mass numbers of electric cars in an unrealistic time frame. Truthfully all electric cars will likely never be a viable transportation alternative to fossil fuel cars. No matter how long the battery can hold charge it will always be limited in it's recharge rate by electron flow. The best long term solution is an efficient electric drivetrain with an efficient on-board generator. This is the direction that the Volt, the new Town&Country and Wrangler, and apparently this care are going. For now an ICE is a good on-board generator, primarily because of the abundance of gasoline for refueling. As hydrogen becomes easier and cheaper to produce and transport a hydrogen-fuel cell becomes the ideal replacement for the ICE. Remember, the cars are essentially the same, it's simply a matter of what produces the electricity.

The reason the current administration did not ratify the recent Kyoto protocol is because it realized that government directives in a democratic society cannot be the proponents of great change. Our society is capitalist, if something is not cheaper to produce or make more money we don't use it! As much as people would like to care about trees at the end of the day we care about dollars.]]>Dec 18th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
Put this technology in one of the regular models. Oh wait, no one will buy it!]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
Also, I love the line that GM is evil because they killed the electric/hydrogen cars. Did you know the GM is currently the largest builder of Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicles in the world? They manufacture buses with this technology because it provide more bang for the buck. Cars are a waste as fuel cell vehicles because they are impractical right now. A large SUV or Truck is better suited to the technology.]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
I don't own a GM (I own a Volvo), but GM does sell a lots of cars and is on par with Toyota and VW. Outside of the US, GM division are quite profitable. Within the US they aren't profitable, but are still selling lot of cars. The reason: It's called legacy Union Costs.

A recent stat (I'll have to dig it up) show how GM and Toyota both sold about 9 million vehicles in a year, but GM lost about 4 billion dollars and Toyota made 15 billion dollars in profit. How? They both sell lots of cars in the same price range and markets.

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The carbon? That ship has sail. Evidence is building that carbon isn't a problem in the climate change. It's a little thing called the sun.

On top of that, we have more oil than we know what do with. On top of that bio-diesel is becoming easier to manufacture and the quality is on par with auto diesel. All bio-diesel is, is the manufacturing the same carbon chains for fuel that are present in a barrel of oil.]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
I'm a man of science myself. That's why I can justify my position on this.

Have fun with this article.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11383

Scientist almost daily are coming out again the Climate Change Hoax.

Open your damn eyes and actually think for yourself. You aren't doing so good up Al Gore's ass.]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
Do you wear a cape in that fantasy?]]>Dec 17th 2008 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
Two factors caused the recent rise in global temperatures in since the late 80's to early 2000: The sun and the fall of the USSR.

1.) The sun had an unusually active season very similar to warm period during the 30s. We are currently entire the Sun's inactive period. We should have lower than average global temperatures for next 10 years. I would be hard pressed to fight Solar research community on this one. On top of that, the solar community checks global temperature variations from satellites which give more scientifically reliable readings versus ground based stations.

2.) How the hell did the fall of the USSR cause global temperatures to rise? Well, global mean temperatures for UN IPCC studies were based on about 15,000 temperature readings across the globe. During the 80s, USSR and the eastern block countries they controlled fell into hard times (communism wasn't working so well) and neglected the approximately 5000 temperature stations. Much of the the USSR and eastern block countries represent cold regions of the earth (even in north hemisphere summer months). The lack of readings began to skew the results. They didn't all go at once either. Over time the temperature stations were neglected. The more that were reporting the more the numbers skewed warmer for the planet. The IPCC did try to adjust it's measurements to offset this to meet some statistical quality. The even went back through the 90's and re-adjusted previous record year global mean temperatures to lower levels.

You, these are just two examples. I can list many more other angles of how the climate change community is deceiving the masses. Climate change is a political issues handle by bureaucrats with a motive. Most of the scientist that agree with the hoax are paid by these bureaucrats. The link in my previous post contains several scientists that vocal changed there position once they left these jobs.

So, are you going to just call me a name now or actually throw some "scientific" evidence back?

There's a reason courts in the UK have required schools to present the 9 lies and/or misleading aspects to Al Gore's movie.


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I'm sure if you just hate a little harder you'll win more converts to your cause of licking the shitty boots of Status Quo.]]>Dec 17th 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/
That made me laugh really bad ! Thnx for cheering me up ! :D]]>Dec 17th 2008 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/17/mercedes-hedges-alt-fuel-bets-with-bluezero-electric-hydrogen/Dec 17th 2008 11:06AM