People are always complaining about something today, and a popular topic is the price of gasoline. Older generations remember a time when gasoline could be purchased for a quart; a big difference from the three or four dollars paid today. It doesn't help that America depends so heavily on foreign countries for its gasoline supply.1 And with conflict in the Middle East, gasoline prices are more uncertain than ever; prices go up and down in the blink of an eye these days. For these reasons, along with global warming, scientists have been experimenting with replacing fossil fuel. Some of the characteristics scientists are looking for are availability and low emissions. And one of these alternative fuels is hydrogen.1 Hydrogen, with an atomic weight of 1.0, is the lightest element on the periodic table.2 And although most people don't think of it as a fuel, it is been used by NASA as a fuel and others for industrial processes.3 Some may remember the Hindenburg and how hydrogen was blamed for the accident. Popular belief was that the hydrogen in the zeppelin burned with the oxygen in the air and caused the explosion; but Addison Bain, a retired NASA engineer, concluded that the real cause was the skin covering the airship.3,4 The skin was made of cotton material covered with iron oxide and cellulose butyrate acetate; cellulose acetate butyrate also had a suspension of aluminum powder.3 The compounds are basically the ingredients for a solid rocket propellant.3 The airship caught fire due to an electrostatic discharge that ignited the skin.3 While the hydrogen inside the airship didn't help matters when it caught fire, it wasn't the but...... middle of paper......2007.2. McCarthy, John. Hydrogen. http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/idrogen.html (November 24, 2011).3. Schatz Energy Research Center. http://www.schatzlab.org/education/h2safety.html (November 24, 2011), Humbolbt State University.4. Hoffmann, Peter. The energy of tomorrow: hydrogen, fuel cells and the prospects for a cleaner planet. The MIT Press: Cambridge, 2001.5. Saravanan, N.; Nagarajan, G. Experimental investigation of hydrogen fuel optimization on a hydrogen dual fuel diesel engine. Energy Fuels 2009, 23 (5), 2646-2657.6. Ashok, MP; Saravanan, CG Role of hydrogen peroxide in a selected emulsified fuel ratio and comparison with diesel fuel data. Energy Fuels 2008, 22 (3), 2099-2103.7. Light, Stuart. Solar water splitting to generate hydrogen fuel: photothermal electrochemical analysis. J. physicist. Chemistry. 2003, 107 (18), 4253-4260.