With all of the hype surrounding hydrogen, hydrogen cars and fuel cells and government investment in hydrogen technology, is it any wonder everyone is whipping together a new hydrogen device of some sort in his garage? Inventors who know a little about how hydrogen is produced are tinkering with new ideas. Companies with expertise in other areas are jumping into hydrogen because dollars are waiting. Everyone has the breakthrough that will change the world, ... or not. Wired has an interesting article:
"Eighty percent or more of the ideas that come directly to us violate the laws of physics," says Patrick Serfass, a spokesman for the National Hydrogen Association.
"When you put that kind of money out there, anybody who has even the most marginal technology related to hydrogen comes out of the woodwork," says Joseph Romm, an assistant energy secretary during the Clinton administration and author of the book The Hype About Hydrogen.
