Retro Green: Video of Jack Nicholson's 1978 Hydrogen Car
by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada 
on 07.30.08
Jack Nicholson's Hydrogen Chevy
Not exactly news anymore, but this CBC video from 1978 is pretty cool in a retro-green way. It shows a young Jack Nicholson driving a Chevy powered by hydrogen that was made with solar power. He even does the classic move of breathing in the water-vapor exhaust. I wonder what Jack is driving these days?
Current Hydrogen Cars
The latest on the hydrogen front is the news that Honda has delivered its first FCX Clarity, only about a month after production of the fuel cell car began. But there will only be a small number, they will only be available for leasing in California, and we still don't know how to produce hydrogen from clean sources on a large scale (or rather, if we had all that clean energy, why not use it in electric cars with batteries and hypercapacitors directly?).
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