Water: The Future’s Fuel

Abstract

Fossil fuel burning vehicles contribute to atmospheric pollution and the continuous temperature increase that affects the entire planet. This occurs because of the accumulation of what are known as Green House Gases (GHGs), which are responsible for trapping the energy of the Sun here on Earth. Because the pool of GHGs is becoming denser due to the burning of fossil fuels, among other contributors, the amount of energy that is trapped consequently increases, resulting in an increase in planetary temperature (The Green House Effect). If the burning of fossil fuels is responsible for the increase of GHGs in the atmosphere, the logical thing to do is to find a substitute that does not produce GHGs. An obvious replacement is hydrogen (H 2 ), a clean burning gas with no GHGs as byproducts. The only thing hindering the transition to H 2 is its' method of production. In today's day and age, technology has finally reached a point where water (H 2 O) can be used for the production of H 2 , which makes it our fuel for the future.