Hope in hydrogen

Brooks thinks that not enough publicity has been given to a new technology known as a hydrogen-injected engine, which is being developed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and licensed by ArvinMeritor, a major auto industry supplier with $8 billion in sales.

They have developed a reformer, which is a device that converts a certain percentage of gasoline into hydrogen through an electrical current. Mixed with the normal gasoline and air combination going into the engine, it results in a vastly improved combustion characteristic that can use twice as much air and the same amount of gas, Brooks said.

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