Well the funny thing is, he is an agent of chaos; he's even got the Business Card of Chaos from Eris. It's just that the idea that Chaos = Evil is so firmly ingrained in most people's minds that they'd never consider it - and Fate won't help with that since he equates Chaos with Evil too.
For clean energy driving, you don't want an electric car (battery are made of very very polluting stuff), you want Fuel Cell. It generates water (so no pollution), and uses H2, which is very easily made from water and electricity. It's pretty much the cleanest way to power vehicles if you have a clean way to generate electricity (and even without, nuclear plants are more environment friendly than the sum of fossils-fuel engines used).
I don't see Paul being able to effectively pitch any technology acquired via irreversible enslavement, even if he wasn't the one who did the enslaving.
Don't tell them?
I QUITE disagree here. Considering his opinions on the Genomorphs and his behavior in the Un-Men arc, I think Paul would have the opposite opinion: Given that the terrible stuff has already happened, it would be wasteful and disrespectful to the suffering of the victims to not try to turn that awful experience into something worthwhile.
Correct; it's the power source that is weak, not the motors.
Earth can't build them yet, though, which is why OL is introducing them for something as centralized and high-impact as power generation.
I agree. Even if the original source does come from a rather immoral man, spreading various human-made schizo tech devices was a big part of OL's speech with Ted Kord. An extremely compact power generator that produces enough power to do what Firebrand does, is utterly silent, and could potentially last decades without maintenance (in the case of Red Torpedo) is of astronomical value. Given that Morrow produced it alone decades ago, I hardly see it as being extremely difficult to create with modern technology.
If it requires an AI or some substitute to control it though then just building it wouldn't accomplish much. I recall Mr Zoat mentioned long ago that controlling it without a mind specifically designed for the job was difficult.
It may well be an example of what's been called "arcanotech", like the Purple Healing Ray; it works with the classical Four Elements after all. That's awful mystical for machinery.
I could maybe see that for using it to do everything that Danette is capable of.
If your goal is to make a really expensive bomb, maybe. But making it not fry itself and only create flame exactly where you want it to could easily be much more complicated. For all we know its default state is "FIRE! FIRE EVERYWHERE!" and it takes a complex control system just to restrict the flame generation to a small spot.
It was presumably turned off.
No, it's not used in vehicles because pressurized hydrogen is really explosive, and we don't want cars taking off like uncontrolled rockets due to a fender-bender.
IIRC he got knowledge from the future. T.O. Morrow.
What do you mean by that ?
Nope. Fuel cells use high pressure dihydrogen, which means in case of failure the air is saturated by too much H2 to allow an explosion. Unless you mean Hollywood car failure.
Large pressure tanks, mostly. Hydrogen has a lot of energy per unit MASS, but hydrogen is also DRAMATICALLY less dense than any other fuel, so its energy per unit VOLUME is actually kinda low. Which means if you want enough hydrogen to do something useful with it, you're going to need to keep it under pressure -- and the higher pressure you want to contain, the heavier the tanks themselves have to be. Power-to-weight ratio isn't looking pretty. This is the main real-world reason fuel cells haven't taken off.
That actually isn't all that dangerous. Even with the Hindenburg most people on board survived.