“If society’s goals are to reduce carbon from the transportation side, they only have a few options and from our point of view, the fuel cell is the most compelling one.” — Craig Scott, Toyota’s national manager of advanced technologies
Following is the conclusion of the speech by Dr. Ballard at Camden:
“Air pollution takes many adverse forms on earth, but the worst one to my mind is the foul atmosphere that we inflict on inhabitants of the inner city. This has been widely ignored in the environmental debates, where the arguments are directed to cleaning up the upper atmosphere, ozone holes and depletion, and warming trends that could inundate the coast. I acknowledge that the atmospheric conditions are meta-stable and we could tip over the events that would produce catastrophic changes such as shutting down the Gulf Stream. However, the real down home truth is that burning fossil fuels is killing people today and this is not some probabilistic fear about the future. Millions of people throughout the world are being sickened and killed by bad air.”
“One does not have to resort to data and statistics to recognize that if 12% of us can cause such havoc to earth’s atmosphere then the other 88% will spell out a doomsday for planet earth if they follow our examples of energy source and use. The developed world has begun to introduce this new energy system, the Hydrogen Economy, which has the potential to truly mitigate or even, one day, virtually eliminate the effects of urban pollution.
