Hydrogen Fuel Cells

The automotive industry is going through its biggest change in living memory with virtually every manufacturer trying to develop their own technologies to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels and while electric and battery concepts seem to be the way forwards they certainly aren't a magic bullet there's concerns surrounding the provision of green electricity to all that need it and the fact that our electrical grids simply aren't designed to handle the loads that will be required even if this was sorted there's also the fact that batteries are relatively very heavy for the amount of charge that they can hold and while they may be suitable for cars they're not yet at a place where they're viable for larger trucks ships or planes that's why another solution is needed and the most likely candidate is hydrogen fuel hydrogen itself can be produced by a range of methods such as natural gas nuclear power biomass and even other renewable energies and when it's used the only by-product is water in the uk a concept train has already been fitted with hydrogen cells and it's undergoing tests while aircraft manufacturers such as airbus see this as a far more viable target in the near future than full electrification and car companies too are looking at how it can be used the technology is approaching the stage where it's possible across a range of applications and it's only a matter of time until it's commonplace.