With the oil price crisis focusing minds, and with no end of the Middle East turmoil in sight, talk of alternative fuels is reaching fever pitch.
One fuel that has been making the business headlines is Hydrogen.
Of course hydrogen as a fuel has been mooted for many years, but harnessing the explosive power of the most basic gas has always proved troublesome.
Notice the dramatic pictures of explosion at the Fukushima nuclear plant in northern Japan this month and you’re witnessing hydrogen explosions.
A small British firm called Cella Energy is seeking backers to help develop hydrogen to fuel cars and eliminate emissions.
It’s a company that has sprung from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Oxford University and they have apparently made some useful progress of late.
It believes it has overcome earlier problems by storing hydrogen in tiny microbeads as small as grains of sand. They release the hydrogen when heated -producing the energy to fuel lorries, ships, cars or planes.
This could be a potential substitute for petrol.
Let’s hope something alternative comes along quickly.
