Hydrogen

Hydrogen has significant safety advantages over other fuels, primarily due to its lightness and ability to dissipate upwards quickly if a release occurs. Gasoline and most other fuels pool on the ground. A common misconception is that the Hindenberg disaster was caused by hydrogen. It is now understood that the highly flammable skin of the Hindenburg (chemically similar to dynamite) was the primary cause of this accident.

Beyond safety advantages, hydrogen is the cleanest fuel. When produced using renewable energy, there are no greenhouse gases, and virtually no harmful by-products.

Hydrogen is not a fuel in the conventional sense, like oil-derived fuels, which produce much more energy than they take to extract, refine and deliver. There is no pool of hydrogen we can directly tap into. But Ocenergy is developing a means of enhanced hydrogen production, to produce vast quantities of fuel at comparatively low cost.