it's official! Bill H.R. 5143 passes 416 to 6
from private Xprize to public HPrize
Fun times in the House! They just passed a bill funding a Hydrogen Fuel Cell prize. A grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes reaching millions of dollars is offered to anyone who can make one of these things viable... it's pretty muchin teh same vein as that Ansari X-Prize. The Energy Department announced earlier this year that it would provide $119 million in funding for research into hydrogen fuel cells, including $100 million over the next four years to projects to improve components of fuel cell systems.I guess the extra couple of million is incentive for the engineers and scientists to quit stalling or something...
[thanks anonymous tipster!]
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