We wanted something that was really affordable.

General Skywalker, there are fuel cells over here.

Blame high fuel costs, blame insurance premiums, blame technology.

Many believe that the crisis can be prevented through conservation, technology, smart growth, recycling, electric cars and hybrids, substitution, or voting.

Now, whether we're talking about fuels or energy carriers, or perhaps novel materials for batteries or fuel cells, nature hasn't ever built those perfect materials yet because nature didn't need to.

I'm glad you heard earlier today, batteries are unbelievably

Those 125 to 240 mile per gallon equivalent autos can use any mixture of hydrogen fuel cells, electricity and advanced biofuels.

This is about energy efficiency.

It will replace or be able to be used for that.

To technology and materials I'd never seen.

Autonomy really set the vision for where we wanted to head.

lack density compared to fuel.

Besides fossil fuel decline, there are several threats to the current system of food production

Now there's no question about it at all we will only solve the problem of replacing fossil fuels with technology.

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The fuel cell looked great one tenth as many moving parts and a fuel cell propulsion system as an internal combustion engine and it emits just water.

Indeed, that sort of vehicle fitness then makes electric propulsion affordable because the batteries or fuel cells also get smaller and lighter and cheaper.

The basement generators they run out of fuel.

We then had Autonomy drivable with Hy Wire, and we showed Hy Wire here at this conference last year.

and we're making great progress for this goal is to have a propulsion system based on hydrogen and fuel cells, designed and validated, that can go head to head with the internal combustion engine we're talking about obsoleting the internal combustion engine and do it in terms of its affordability, add skill volumes, its performance and its durability.

But those four futures at the same cost differ profoundly in their risks, around national security, fuel, water, finance, technology, climate and health.

Electric cars run on electricity.

So you see, the liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology, it's a blueprint for inventing inventors, full spectrum.

Some sort of microelectro technology.

In fact, I looked to a technology that neither stores nor generates electricity, but instead consumes electricity, huge amounts of it.

Fuel... power...

You'd have to fill your entire parking space of one garage space just to give yourself four hours of battery backup.

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This man is Steven Sassoon.

Biotech is probably the most powerful and the fastest growing technology sector.

I need fuel.

Primary fuel?

Fuel supply?

Our fuel.

And you can do it the same, over and over again.

So we embarked upon the reinvention around an electrochemical engine, the fuel cell, hydrogen as the energy carrier.

And just you know, hope to see that in you guys, you may look at the fuel cell market structure and go it's just not penetrable for a new entrant even though the technology is applicable.

And you need some design to be successful.

Let's say we converted all the vehicles in the United States to battery electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles or flex fuel vehicles run on E85.

You know, rocket designers who use solar panels or fuel cells, I mean a few watts or kilowatts wow, that's a lot of power.

And we've all heard of charge.

Battery's the power source.

So something I think is very fascinating is

So the whole area's been stuck for a while, and it got reignited in the '80s when analytical technologies and computer technologies were coming on.

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