Fossil fuels are running out, there are may different timescales predicted but even by the most optimistic predictions, by the end of this century we will no longer be filling our petrol tanks at our local petrol stations. As the years roll by, we are being all the more pressed into adapting a hydrogen economy. It would be a colossal transformation of our society, in the present climate we depend for almost everything upon fossil fuels.

We heat our homes, places of work, places of leisure; power our transportation; light our cities, towns and villages; communicate across distances; produce clothes, household appliances and methods of transportation with fossil fuels. Indeed, it is hard to think of anything that is not drawn into the net of fossil fuel dependency. In addition, oil is regularly the source of many of the world's problems with wars and fighting breaking out over it's ownership and appropriation. It would indeed be a colossal transformation but it is a transformation that is necessary, some forecast that our resources of crude oil will be exhausted within the next forty years. There are other options to the hydrogen model but they encompass dirtier fossil fuels - coal, tar sand and heavy oil; which are not really valid options as they will only continue to worsen global warming and contribute to the destruction of precious eco-systems.

Hydrogen economy is the way forward - it is the most basic and omnipresent element in the universe, it is renewable, it produces no harmful omissions and its only by-products are heat and pure water. In addition, it can power all of the things listed above that are presently powered by fossil fuels. Amazingly, it would also eradicate our current dependency on oil producing countries because hydrogen can be produced anywhere that you have electricity and water, people can even produce it in their own homes using quite basic technology.



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