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> >>Honda Motor, aiming to start mass production 
> of fuel-cell cars by about 2015, is developing a 
> system using solar energy for drivers to make 
> hydrogen at home to fuel such vehicles.
> 

Something like this, thinks I, is in our future depending, of course, if we 
have enough industrial energy to produce the cars and hydrogen systems.

But the ironic thing, the koan, is that if you had a solar roofed garage 
producing hydrogen for a hydrogen vehicle, the math is mighty constraint.  
You can 
produce enough hydrogen for short trips or infrequent longer trips, but not 
to commute 70 miles each way five days a week.  This means that if our 
lifestyles changed enough to accomodate solar powered hydrogen cars, if we 
drove so 
little that home brewed hydrogen could supply our fuel, we could instead use 
the 
petroleum we have just from domestic sources for hundreds of years.

That change in lifestyle is going to happen come soon or late, and my bet 
would not be on it being voluntary.   </HTML>