Forget hydrogen fuel cells....... we had the solution right under our noses

Another great film I watched this past weekend was Who Killed the Electric Car. It's a documentary chronicling the rise and fall of pure electric cars in the US. These vehicles only came into existence thanks to progressive legislation in California that aimed to cut smog by forcing car manufacturers to build zero emissions cars. It worked, for a time, but these companies were secretly planning to sue the government into submission and take these profit killing electric cars off the road for good, all the while blaming lack of demand for their demise.

It's a decent observation of how big business has unchallenged power in our economy. The best part of the documentary was how they showed just how flawed the hydrogen economy will be (emphasis on the fact that it's not ready) compared to what we already had with electric cars. Which by the way, would not only deliver power to vehicle most efficiently, but also be usable by the electric utility as a means of storing some electric power off of the grid until it's needed.