Mr. Nice
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First off, no, it wasn't "directed at you" it was directed at everyone who said that.
Secondly, Wiki?? come on.
We're at 55 mph, 14.2 seconds into the coast. Another musing: After one of our photo sessions, which concluded in a cool, humid dusk, occupants of the support vehicle following the Clarity noted a mist of water vapor on their windshield whenever the FCX accelerated hard ahead of it. In the future, will we say we've been "steamed" instead of "smoked" by a faster car when the light goes green? And savor the thought that the exhaust on that windshield is brand-new water. Freshly made, mere seconds old compared with nearly all the rest that carries multi-billion-year-old birth certificates (conversation: "Hey, I'm new here. What have you guys been up to?"). In some quarters, there's been vexing that this added water vapor represents an even worse greenhouse contributor than CO2. Actually, it is: Vaporous H2O makes for an even warmer atmospheric blanket. However the atmosphere's concentration of H2O is simply a response to overall atmospheric temperature; think of it as a big, humid tail being wagged by a small CO2 dog. And it's quickly and completely self-regulating via rain. Were the sky able to rain CO2 away so easily, Honda wouldn't be investing such a fortune on this Clarity's technology.
http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/alternative/112_0902_2008_honda_fcx_clarity_first_test/index.html