"Steven M. O'Neill" wrote in message
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Cast_Iron wrote:
So there's no alternative to the infernal combustion engine the oil
company's say?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/3350715.stm

Epic trip for 'alternative' car

A car that runs on just hydrogen and solar power has completed a journey
through Australia - the first crossing of a continent for a car of this
type.

Where does the hydrogen come from?

Water most of our hydrogen is pre-oxidised at present, the conventional way to
split it is to use electricity that could be developed in an environmentally
friendly way, or we could throw away hundreds of years worth of science and use
billions of years worth of evolution and algae. Algae happens to be very good at
splitting hydrogen and oxygen using little more than water space and a bit of
"free" energy from the sun. All that remains is the collection, storage and
distribution of the gasses.