When you read the paper and watch TV news, you might conclude that the energy crisis can only be solved by well funded big oil, big auto or big government.

With a little more digging or research and you will soon discover other inventions already in use that also use hydrogen as automobile fuel. These technologies are not usually published in the mainstream media but exist in the world of obscure R&D firms and, sometimes, independent inventors.

What most of these alternative technologies share is that the hydrogen as motor vehicle fuel is generated as it is used, or what many call "on-demand"..

This is accomplished with an instrument of some sort that creates hydrogen as it is burned doing away with volatile containers of hydrogen. The primary product for producing the hydrogen is water, good old H2O.

You might have already come to realize that this takes care of the two significant problems of the mainstream research and development.

When hydrogen is on-demand there are no bulky containers of hydrogen. The only addition to an automobile is a booster that produces the hydrogen fuel and delivers fuel into the vehicle's fuel injection system.

Secondly, the energy to make energy is inexpensive and environmentally friendly. It is an on board system that uses water. And what is more available and more abundant than water? And the electric power is generated by engine's electrical system. Hydrogen burns totally clean by combining with oxygen to generate water. For more of this conversation come on over to http://cheapskate.ws .