ABSTRACT
"Work on using hydrogen at utilities and in vehicles offers some hope for its widespread role as a fuel. But hydrogen lacks solid government or industry backing," said the subhead. Interest in hydrogen has steadily percolated upward and outward, at least among scientists and scientific institutions, some governments, and some industrial firms. The Stanford Research Institute study of 1976 lists a number of technological developments that would tend to either enhance or diminish the prospects of a transition to hydrogen. The nuclear plants would produce hydrogen from seawater on a gigantic scale. Interest in hydrogen has steadily percolated upward and outward, at least among scientists and scientific institutions, some governments, and some industrial firms. The hydrogen would be transported in liquid form, analogous to the technology of transporting liquid natural gas in huge cryogenic tankers to distribution centers on the various continents.
