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Honda have gone into production* with a car, the Hydrogen Honda FSX, that runs on hydrogen, extracted from water by an electrical process that I don't understand, but deeply admire.
The FSX does about 82 miles to the gallon for about half the cost of petrol/gasoline, ie, no fossil fuel pollution, and runs for 270 miles between fill-ups, not that there are many places where you can fill up with hydrogen, except, it seems, in California. But Honda are proposing to solve that problem by establishing the fill-up infrastructure themselves, based around the idea that individual homes could have their own hydrogen facility for all their power needs, not just for their cars.
There is one question that is bothering me, though. Given that here is a wonderful opportunity to reduce pollution, and an even more wonderful opportunity to break the oily Arabs' (and others') grip on our goolies , why are our governments not shouting about the hydrogen car from the rooftops? Why aren't they investing megabucks to get out of fossil fuels and into hydrogen? After all, we aren't short of water, at least not where I live. They keep nagging me about lagging my legs and recycling my used banknotes, so why shouldn't I start nagging them about taking hydrogen cars seriously?
Go on. Say it. You've heard it all before. It's water under the bridge. That's even worse than the pun that heads this posting.

*A production run of only a 100, but it's a start