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Solution for the future – Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Energy in the 21st century must come from limitless sources such as water, solar and geothermal to avoid the depletion that threatens today’s resources and the effect on the global climate.

Hydrogen is an ideal medium for the capture and transport of clean energy. Fuel cells transform hydrogen with high efficiency into power.

Hydrogen, when combined with oxygen from air in a fuel cell, supplies electricity. This transformation is quiet, highly efficient and does not generate any poisonous emissions, only pure water. By reversing the process, renewable sources such as solar energy, can be stored as hydrogen.

Earth has seen mankind extract limited energy first from wood and later from coal and liquid and gaseous fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel cells fulfill the promise of energy free of green house gas production. In a closed cycle, mirroring nature, renewable energy and water will be the basis for future energy usage.

Ecological demonstrations using hydrogen as a clean energy supply are visible around the globe. In joint programs in Europe, Japan and the USA, increasingly the environmental political and health benefits of hydrogen are being demonstrated.

The future is coming into focus now, powered by clean, safe and abundant hydrogen.

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