Lede of the century: "The gas tank of the future may be full of chicken feathers."

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Interesting! Then again, we could spend trillions on nanotubes in the corporate labs.

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internal combustion* engines [even with hydrogen fuel] will neve

While internal combustion* engines [even with hydrogen fuel] will never be a clean form of transportation, I did find this article interesting.

*The oil slick you see in the middle of every traffic lane is caused by "attempting" to lubricate steel heated by combustion. Electric is quiet, clean, simple, has comparatively infinite torque, has minuscule lubrication needs, no cooling system, exhaust system, gear box [lubrication] or long drive shaft. The Chinese government is funding two parallel development projects, in the way we did the Manhattan Project

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