Sigh. I should have more patience, 'tis true. However, if one were to look at the early posts on this thread, and on other threads here at FR discussing fuel cells and other advanced, so-called "alternative," energy devices, one will see a great deal of mocking derision. As I point out above, the gas guzzler fans are working overtime to make fun of highly efficient vehicles and to impugn the intelligence of those who design, build, and drive them. (I do two of the three...)
It irritates the heck out of me, and I do get bristly on these threads. (Which is why I'm in R&D, and not PR...) I wonder if these people would have, if they had been living 100 or so years ago, mocked and derided the horseless carraige and the Wright flyer?
I do not care for my putative allies in the Green movement. Advanced energy is a nifty technical challenge. The bonus is, of course, that I am working to liberate America from energy dependency. Our energy dependency is, to mix metaphors, the Mother of all Entangling Alliances.