The hydrogen would then be piped to consumers through gas pipelines. The water would not be destroyed, of course, but it would be moved from the place where the hydrogen was made to the place where the hydrogen was burned. The Princeton study considers each of the competing alternatives and concludes that hydrogen is the best fuel and that solar cells are the best way to make the hydrogen. Each of these competing technologies has benefits and costs. Biomass requires 10 times as much land as solar cells and a great deal more water.
Natural gas suffers from the same unsolvable problem.
The Billings Energy Corp. of Provo, Utah has manufactured a hydrogen-powered bus. People fear hydrogen, principally because of the Hindenburg airship disaster at Lakehurst, NJ, in 1937, which killed 36 people. The third annual Scientific Assembly for Environmental Health is coming up October 11 and 12 in Columbus, Ohio. We highly recommend this conference to our readers. The basis of the grass-roots movement for environmental justice is concern for our health and the health of our children.