Comments on: Microsoft in deal for fuel cells

Need a light and a couple of songs? Microsoft might have just the thing for you.

[Orion Blastar]

Microsoft needs something to keep returning investments to shareholders

this might do it if they can get a lock on the fuel cell market very early. It seems that Microsoft can move fast and the fuel cell market can give them a big profit.

My only concern is that they use platinum in the fuel cells. That would cause the price to rise. Much like when personal computers had gold contacts, and were expensive until they switched to copper contacts. Perhaps there is some other metal that can provide electronics like platinum, but without the high cost?

Again it would be nice if fuel cells were reasonably priced so that even the poor and disadvantaged could afford to buy them. I am sad to see Microsoft jump on the alternative energy bandwagon powered by the global warming scare, and as a result sell high priced alternative energy sources and profit from the global warming scare in that way. Microsoft is not the only company to do that, and they won't be the last either.

[willdryden]

Still Gold

The card edge connectors in ALL computers are gold plated. It is the only conductive metal that will not corrode. The reason computers have gotten cheaper is because the technology for creating ICs has gotten better and there are more computers being made.

[twotall610]

Hey microsoft

You can't even do Windows right. What makes me think this will
work out. Patches needed to make batteries work. It will probably
be a "plug in".

[herby67]

So

They can't "even" make one of the most complex products in the world with hundreds of millions of "parts" to work "right" (according to you) so they shouldn't be able to build a battery?