Comment 33398

By adam2 (anonymous) | Posted September 12, 2009 at 10:39:56

Sorry to interrupt the hydrogen cell debate, and I know you've all heard this before, but as far as personal transportation goes, we will eventually start designing cities that do not require a car to get groceries, do errands, visit friends. If gasoline becomes too expensive, we won't have any choice but start building cities with scale in mind. As far as enclosed vehicles go, we are human beings, not machines and need to interact personally if we can ever hope to reconnect as communities. Sitting around in an enclosed vehicle has only been around for 100 years and has effectively destroyed the social benefits of our public spaces. There is nothing really human about being isolated in an enclosed vehicle. I can't see it being a part of the design of cities in the future.

As far as industrial transportation goes, goods in the future will probably be transported with high speed electric trains. Hydrogen cells will never reach the level of efficiency of Japan's newest frictionless train models. A single electric track will always be more efficient than storing energy in a cell for use at a later time.

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