Honda held a big shindig today in Japan to announce the rollout of its new FCX Clarity automobile, which will run on Hydrogen and electricity, and emit nothing but water vapor.
Hooray for Earth!
“It’s so smooth,” said Harris, who played villainness Marie Warner on the hit TV show “24″ and was flown over by Honda for the ceremony. “It’s like a future machine, but it’s not” … Spallino, who currently drives Honda’s older FCX and was also flown in for the ceremony, said he will use the Clarity to drive to and from work and for destinations within the Los Angeles area.
Again I say: Hooray for … Whaaaaa?
They wouldn’t really fly celebrities 10,900 miles (round-trip) in fuel-belching jet airplanes so that they can brag about saving a few hundred carbon credits over the life of one of these glorified golf carts, would they?
Bonus points: Remember the last time hydrogen was going to be the next big global revolution in travel? I’m just saying …
I have a cousin who just got his Ph.D from Princeton. His area of expertise? Hydrogen fuel cells. Even if the technology isn’t here, today, working fabulously, it is on the horizon and it may be a really, really good thing to have if we run out of oil.
As for the celebrities flying all over the world to do press for it, yeah, that’s hypocritical but they would probably tell you they are doing god’s work, bringing attention to the cause. As you may know, god’s work causes zero emissions.
Hey Mr. Spallino. If you’re gonna use it when tooling around L.A., why not just walk? Or take a bus? They dont’ have that stuff in L.A.? Then maybe all that energy won’t be wasted building you a car.
I was told in the 70s and early 80s that we were in between ice ages. And what ever happened to the “Acid Rain” bandwagon in the 80s? That went away quietly. Maybe we ‘fixed it’
My favorite was a news story this morning that said “The clarity emits no polluting greenhouse gases, just water vapor.” Anybody want to guess what the most common greenhouse gas is? Making up over 90% of all the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere? That’s right it’s water vapor. Anybody want to take bets on how long it will be before they tell us we need to limit our water vapor emissions?
I’m little worried about “Hydrogen and electricity” being together. Remember The Hindenberg?
Water vapor? If all it emits is water vapor, why not put a condenser on the back of the thing and then just drink your emissions!
“Zero emissions”, huh?
Where will all that hydrogen come from, Honda? The magic hydrogen tree?
Guess you’ll have to manufacture it, won’t you? You know, in some plant powered by coal-fired electricity.
Welcome back to your carbon footprint.
Meh, the thing you have to realize is that this can all be blamed upon society. The average American (clearly the cause of all the world’s woes) simply hasn’t been properly educated on the millions of tons of fuel required to produce the millions of BTUs of heat which go into the hot air required to generate good publicity. Since activist celebrities are among the world’s greatest sources of publicity and most of them are clearly The Rich, perhaps what we really need is a tax on The Rich’s publicity footprint. The money could be used to help line government employee pockets so they can be warm during the coming ice age, which of course will occur as soon as global warming reaches its inevitable peak.
I believe Gandhi had something to say about one drinking one’s own emissions.