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(consumer-and-community based power and fuel production) is one of the oligarchs' worst nightmares.
So despite all the talk, expect the sort of large-scale projects that the oligarchs love -- and control. With these sorts of deals (and this sort of architecture), there are just so many levels on which you can chisel the (eventual) consumer; moreover, these consumers don't stay consumers -- they become addicts.
And with all this hype about fuel-cell vehicles, it's "surprising" that the hypsters don't use the the more-correct term: "fuel-cell electric-vehicles". (Fuel-cells are essentially just really good batteries -- that run off of a replenishable fuel and external oxygen: which in, say, space, also needs to be provided.)
But if they used that term, people might start thinking "Why not just use electricity to 'fuel' electric-vehicles, and skip the whole hydrogen deal; it's not like it grows on trees?".
Couldn't have that.
And yes, there needs to be improvement in (conventional) battery-powered electric-vehicles. But current technology is adequate for the uses of many people, and others could easily adapt to it. Moreover, you build a market by selling units -- not destroying them.
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