The Change Mariner

Hydrogen Revolution?

CTNow.com

The 100-year run of the gasoline engine may end here, in an unpretentious riverside office park in western Canada.

Inside, casually dressed employees walk unhurriedly around a modest-sized factory floor, overseeing the secretive process of manufacturing fuel cells, simple but miraculous devices that transform limitless hydrogen into highly efficient electric power -- with no emissions except harmless heat and distilled water vapor.

... After paying little attention to hydrogen for years, sources as unlikely as General Motors Corp. and President George W. Bush have in recent months started to aggressively tout it as the transportation fuel of the future -- the near future.

They confidently predict that fuel-cell-powered cars, electric generators, cell phones and many other products -- all now in the prototype stage -- will enter mass use sometime between 2015 and 2020, especially in places like Japan, New York, Southern California and Western Europe, where energy costs are high and so is air pollution.

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