Well, we could be but I have that feeling that someone [maybe Ford] owns the patent on this and it's the reason this common sense solution is being kept quiet.
Type `hydrogen internal combustion engine' into your search bar and have a gander at what comes up.
You should see that Ford is already producing hydrogen gas powered internal combustion engines...for fleet service at airports where hydrocarbon pollution is a major concern!
What's the significance of this? Let's start with the fact hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.
Hydrogen, as both Ford and the Hindenberg prove, is highly flammable.
Separating hydrogen from oxygen (a.k.a. water) requires a simple carbon electrode...you could do it at home. [How many of you actually conducted this experiment in HS science class? It really is that simple!]
Better, (or worse depending on how you make money) is that there's moisture in the air. A simple condenser and electrode unit under the hood could generate fuel while you drive!
What comes out the exhaust?
Water.
It's even better (or worse depending once again on how you make money.)
You can convert your current vehicle to burn hydrogen!
Now to really open up your eyes...we could have done this FIFTY YEARS AGO never mind thirty years ago during the first energy `crisis'.
Understand what I'm saying here...it's the equivalent of finding someone dead of starvation lying face down in a plate full of food!
I don't know about the rest of you but I'm sick of being lied to and manipulated.
I'm sick of the purposeful, belligerent mismanagement of our affairs for the sole benefit of the privileged few.
I'm sick of the lies, the deceit and perhaps most of all I'm sick of the law being used to protect privilege.
You can build your own hydrogen separator or better yet your vehicle would come equipped with one so all you'd have to do is add perfectly safe water...
But the law will be used to prevent this...so they can sell you hydrogen instead!
Where once again public safety will take a back seat to profits.
I'm projecting here but it's best to lay the cards out on the table so you will know in advance what to expect.
Because hydrogen powered vehicles are inevitable.
The only `drawback' is figuring out how to charge you for something that exists freely in the air, moisture.
Since existing vehicles can be converted to run on hydrogen you have to wonder why this isn't part of the discussion on alternative energy.
Can you say `addios oil addiction'?
The planet is 7/10ths' covered by di-hydrogen oxide and is traveling through a galactic ocean of hydrogen.
It's the single most abundant element in the whole entire universe.
Thanks for letting me inside your head,
Gegner