Methanol
Toshiba is one of the companies making great progress towards methanol fuel cells. While this is good, it is not the best solution. Today, methanol is still mostly produced from fossil fuels like natural gas (don’t…), so it’s not 100% environmentally friendly. What we really need is methanol produced from sugar crop or rapeseed. Off course, you’d prefer ethanol, which is much less toxic, but probably not as effective for fuel cells. Methanol is a deadly poison, it blinds, then kills. It can also be produced at home, though it’s probably illegal to do so–we don’t want the people to have free fuel now, do we?
