Did you know that when hydrogen leaks it leaks in a drizzle and does not combine to form explosive material, whereas gasoline does? You call driving hydrogen powered cars driving a hydrogen bomb. Well when you are driving a gasoline powered car aren’t you essentially driving a ticking time bomb? Have you seen what the Albertan tar sands look like? Have you seen the destruction done? Do you know what it’s like to be in a war over oil? Gasoline is the bomb, not hydrogen.

As well there have been big advances like the idea to extract hydrogen from ammonium for better efficiency. I think people need to stop putting it down because the governments are seeing that as a thumbs down to the idea. We have been researching alternative energy for years, and hydrogen has been our best bet. If we don’t change our ways soon, it’ll be too late an

Hydrogen is still a viable alternative for the future, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Unless some big advances are made the “hydrogen economy” is a pipe dream. EV’s, Plug-in Hybrids running on ever higher bio-fuel/petrol mixtures and especially public transportation are the directions we need to take and take now.

When it comes to hydrogen all advances are welcome, but let’s hold off on the ticker tape parades until hydrogen becomes feasible as a transportation fuel.

Oh and don’t mention the Honda public experiment with hydrogen vehicles to me as the production cost of those things is greater than the value of your house (before the real estate bust).