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FUEL CELL POWERED AUTOMOBLIE Advantages No single renewable energy product can immediately replace oil, but a combination of hydrogen, wind and agricultural by-products may be able to cut U.S. dependence on one of the nation’s most-coveted resources in the next 10 to 20 years. We will eventually deplete are supply of fossil fuels and must start taking steps now to become less dependent. Here in the U.S. new technologies are being introduced to perhaps make a dent in the 20 million barrels of crude oil used a day, most of which is used in transportation. Fuel cell technologies using hydrogen may be the “oil” of the future. Toyota Corp. has began a limited release of it’s “Highlander” model in a fuel cell version. The hydrogen fuel cell has advantages over the internal combustion engine. Advantages of fuel cells include their ability to generate power more efficiently than internal combustion engines and other conventional power sources, while producing essentially no pollutants; there only waste is water. Fuel cells don’t make noise, have no moving parts. Unlike Automobiles that run on batteries fuel cells are alm