Hydrogen power

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Very interesting watching Eurosport (how can you contact them by the way?) and the discussion that we may have five hydrogen-powered cars in a few years time. They were talking about the 3,0000 cars in California that are hydrogen-powered, and that Pierre Fillon famously put a plastic cup under the exhaust and then drank the water. They don't seem to know though that there is a hydrogen filling station at the aerodrome, and that in four years from now all Le Mans buses will be hydrogen powered. But I am pleased to see this move forward. I have always seen the electric car as a blind alley, with people gaily ignoring the battery life and global-warming cost and more importantly the cost of their disposal in the future. Will we see a new problem of fly-tipping dangerous batteries? Possibly so. Whatever, bring on the hydrogen!

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Fuel cell technology has also been "Just a couple of years away from production cars" for good 10 years...and from what I can see still is. But then it's a brand new thing, not just a 100 year old milk float with some mobile phone batteries in it.

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Oi! I was to be seen, cap at a jaunty angle, driving my milk float in the nether regions of Leicester in 1977. 26mph downhill on the Narborough Road before peeling off to Aylestone and dropping to 12 mph. The technology was already there

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Co-op. I had 36 cases to deliver around Aylestone. Roller blind doors that let the wind whistle in freezing me to death in winter, and bottles with the caps in the air as the milk froze. After delivering 600 bottles, home to the gas fire. And then the sheer agony as my hands came back to life again. No wonder I have arthritis setting in. All for £42 per week. Friday was collection day, so a late finish. in te week it was easy to leave the dairy at 0530 and get back at 0945, but Fridays was 4pm sometimes. We worked a three week month, 7on, 2 off twice, and then 7on and three off, giving us a long weekend. I was building my own business during the day, and only did it for 18 months, but some of the stories I could recount would have you in stitches.