BMW's Club of Pioneers website is a cold, cold place
The Club of Pioneers website, "enabled" and founded by BMW, opened for business on December 19th. The dramatic name matches the vision of the site, which focuses on clean energy (and a lot of hydrogen). Right now one of the main features is the chance to submit text to the site, which will then be projected on a bit of 1,000-year-old ice in a cave in Austria (and a World Heritage Site). Anyone can submit a message, and if you get yours displayed on the ice, let us know.
While anyone can sign up to join the Club, the site is also taking applications for bloggers. One of the folks they took on wrote a post about his trip to the North Pole and the Original Pioneer, Santa Claus. There's obviously more to come from the Club. Let's see if they can talk about vehicles other than the Hydrogen 7.
[Source: Club of Pioneers]
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CM 1:27AM (12/31/2006)
Pathetic. This isn't a group of pioneers, it is a bunch of pretenders looking for a "pioneer cachet". These people aren't really "green", just wanting to get in on the latest "green" fad.
Get real! Pretending to be green with a big gas guzzling limo can also guzzle hydrogen is pretentious. It's a club of wealthy pompous twits that talk the talk but would never deign to walk the walk.
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kballs 2:04AM (1/02/2007)
Yep, not grass roots, just more astroturfing. Not genuine, just more hydrogen hype. The car companies are forcing yet another inefficient power train on us. In reality hydrogen is no more efficient and doesn't emit less carbon than burning gasoline (whether you burn the hydrogen or use a fuel cell). EVs using existing battery technology are already more efficient and less carbon emitting than any hydrogen fuel cell will ever be.
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Alexander Grlach 8:34PM (1/02/2007)
I am happy to read that people go on the Club of Pioneers-Site and discuss about it controversely on Autoblog Green.
Club of Pioneers is a part of to the movement that is often called "the new green". We try to gather people who care about sustainability and share their agenda on our platform.
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