Is hydrogen useless?

A Slashdot posting tells us that Hydrogen won't save the economy?

Won't it? I'm not so sure... As we in Belgium doesn't have oil or other traditional energy sources, we'll have to generate our energy from wind, sun, water & maybe others. As we have enough water over here to make Hydrogen, that can't be the problem. Even if there are some efficiency and cost problems at the moment, technology will evolve like it did always and those problems will be solved...

So my conclusion is that Hydrogen will be used in the energy provisioning of the future. The Slashdot article is too pesimistic imo.

What do you think?

Yet an other way to produce hydrogen: solar cells.

Hydrogen is hot at the moment. Now some scientists have found a way to directly produce hydrogen in solar cells. An other step closer to future provisioning of hydrogen.

Read more here.

Can hydrogen be produced by biotech?

An new way to produce hydrogen has been made in labs Science Daily reports.
Hydrogen could be produced by genetically manipulated molecules. This offers great new perspectives for future energy applications.

Hat tip to the Combining the Sphere blog.

A present for the holidays?

The Components-n-materials blog reports about H-Racer.
A small hydrogen powered car. Looks great...
Click here if you want to order it.

Cradle-to-cradle

I just read about the architect William A. McDonough.

He's the inventor of the Cradle-to-cradle concept.
Although this isn't about energy in the narrow sense, it's about waste turning into food for the bio- or technosphere, energy certainly is a major aspect of his work.

Checkout his website.

Wave Powered Desalination

Slashdots reports about a technology that makes waves power desalination installations. This could be a great technology as one of the solutions for water shortage.

Read more over here.

The future of hydrogen...

Will hydrogen first power lawnmowers and only a lot later cars and other transportation?
Join the discussion on Wired.

Solar plastic is coming...

Cheap solar cells, called Solar plastic, will be printed.
They will enable all kind of devices, portables, mp3 players, mobile phones, etc., to recharge on the sun.

Read more on Wired.

How cows can be important for the future of energy...

Read this interesting story on CNN.

Power your iPod with the Sun!

Sanyo just released a device that is capable of charging all kinds of USB Devices. It seems to load a bit slow, but anyway great gadget that's showing us the way to the energy of the future....

More on Engadget.