"Warning: The Hydrogen Economy May Be More Distant Than It Appears" by Alexander Schmit

A new innovative technology has been foreseen in our future and will have the power to replace fossil fuels forever. By ending the use of fossil fuels, hydrogen use seems to promise the end of global warming, but how long will it be before the entire world will evolve into a hydrogen economy?
As the most common element in the universe, hydrogen is available anywhere, but it is not ready for common use. It must be extracted from chemical compounds such as water. At this point in time it takes as much energy to extract hydrogen, as the extracted energy would provide.
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