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Comments on: Toshiba to mass-produce mobile-friendly fuel cells in 2009

Greener? 

Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 08:52 GMT

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How exactly is it greener?

More convenient, yes, with its longer operating time and cartridge exchange fill-up. But methanol doesn't, ahem, grow on trees. It's produced by the same processes, be they green or not (and of course biofuels are far from green), that produce the electricity you use in a normal phone.