IF YOU believe the visionaries, a world powered by hydrogen could be clean, efficient, renewable and global warming-free. US President George Bush and European Commission President Romano Prodi recently agreed, “to accelerate the development of the hydrogen economy”. Japan has been ploughing funds into hydrogen power for decades. Is the future for hydrogen bright now? And are all the players really on the same team?
The dream won’t happen without some big developments (see “The clean green energy dream”). Hydrogen power comes from combining hydrogen with oxygen in fuel cells to make electricity. Fuel cells will have to be…
