Hydrogen is the only fuel whose production and end use can both contribute directly to eliminating many of our most insufferable environmental, economic, and health problems. As a gas or a liquid, hydrogen can easily be transported, stored and ultimately it can be used in every application where primary fuels are used today. This makes hydrogen an ideal, non-polluting energy carrier. Unlike electricity, whose production as a secondary energy medium must be juggled to accommodate peak usage periods, hydrogen can be transported and stored for industrial and domestic needs and to make electricity at virtually any time. It is less expensive to move hydrogen across the continent as a compressed gas by pipeline than an equal amount of electrical energy.
Liquid hydrogen is the safest and most economical choice for moving energy across the oceans.
Hydrogen could be cost competitive at 75 cents per gallon equivalent of gasoline. This estimate is based upon large-scale extraction of hydrogen from biomass wastes or solar thermal extraction techniques utilizing large parabolic solar concentrators called Gensets. Solar Dish Gensets hold the world efficiency record for converting solar energy to electricity. Burning hydrogen does not contribute to the Greenhouse Effect, ozone depletion or acid rain. Transition to a hydrogen energy system could restore the atmosphere to natural conditions prevailing before these anomalies became serious problems.