IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU WILL BUY AND DRIVE A HYDROGEN POWERED VEHICLE

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that fossil-fuel automobiles emit 1 ½ billion tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year and going to hydrogen-based transportation would all but eliminate this. The future of hydrogen cars is not a pipe- dream, as there are already many hydrogen cars on the road. California and Japan have many hydrogen cars being used as fleet vehicles now. For the past 28 years, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been conducting research on hydrogen fuel cells for use in transportation, industry and residential use. Unlike many of the hybrid and "green" cars currently on the market, hydrogen cars offer the promise of zero emission technology, where the only byproduct from the cars is water vapor. Current fossil-fuel burning vehicles emit all sorts of pollutants such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, ozone and microscopic particulate matter. 

The secret to expanding hydrogen fuel usage is building an infrastructure of fueling stations. Hydrogen actually is safer than gasoline if handled properly. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pushing to get 200 hydrogen filling stations built by 2010, stretching from Vancouver, British Columbia all the way down to Baja, California. Since Californians buy one-fifth of the nation's cars. The new hydrogen car technology could simply replace the current gasoline engine automobiles in what is called "disruptive technology" where something so innovative comes along it simply supplants the old technology very quickly.

Believe it or not there are more hydrogen fuel cell cars being built currently than any other kind. Let's also not forget about hydrogen-on-demand vehicles that are either using a hydrogen compound or electrolyzing water to create hydrogen, avoiding the compressed or liquid hydrogen refueling scenario altogether. And, what about adapting hydrogen peroxide for fuel in autos since it is currently being used in racecars and jet packs as a propellant? So let’s write or call our highest representatives and tell them we need to invest more in hydrogen than any other technology. This is a critical time in our history.