Fuel Cells
Unfortunately this is another case of misguided purpose.
Many people are excited about the possibility of truly clean energy and fuel cells seem to represent this possibility. However, if one notes the position of President George W. Bush on energy, you will find much support fot this particular technology coming from the Whitehouse. The reason for this is that the hydrogen will be mostly derived from oil. This will of course change little in the big picture and will leave the political power in the same hands that worked so hard at obfuscating the debate over global warming and whether or not it was caused by humans for the last two decades.
The only way that fuel cell technology will be clean is if we produce the hydrogen from wind, solar or other renewable power. This is totally feasable but it certainly reduces the atractiveness from the perspective of Big Oil.
In the end, money spent on fuel cell technology will only be cost effective if we bar hydrogen derived from petroleum.
