In The Hype about Hydrogen, he explains why hydrogen isn't the quick technological fix it's cracked up to be, and why cheering for fuel cells to sweep the market is not a viable strategy for combating climate change.

Nearly everyone - environmentalists, mainstream media commentators, industry analysts, General Motors, and even President Bush - seems to expect emission-free hydrogen fuel cells to ride to the rescue in a matter of years, or at most a decade or two.

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