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Blog: Hydrogen Hummer at South Pole?

Posted May 02, 2007 6:53 PM

From Scientific American - Official RSS Feed:

File this under crazy things tech guys do with their computer-related millions (or billions): while Bill Gates spends his Microsoft fortune combating malaria (and other things), the great and powerful Woz (Steve Wozniak) plans to spend some of his hard-earned cash racing a hydrogen-fueled Hummer to the South Pole. He's potentially enlisted Buzz Aldrin as co-pilot and a host of other alternatively-fueled vehicles--biofuels, electric and ego--as competitors. Of course, it's all in a good cause: to highlight the fatal flaws of the current internal combustion engine. And Google is backing this ZERO SOUTH expedition (what aren't they backing?), which means this must be good because their motto is don't be evil. Chris Paine ("Who Killed the Electric Car?") is attached to direct the fun.

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Re: Blog: Hydrogen Hummer at South Pole?

05/04/2007 1:54 PM

Lets see, Hydrogen has 1/23rd the energy content of gasoline, he better have a number of tankers carrying fuel... I'l bet they run on GAsoline.

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