BLACKSBURG, Va., May 23, 2007 -- The hydrogen economy is not a futuristic concept. The U.S. Department of Energy’s 2006 Advance Energy Initiative calls for competitive ethanol from plant sources by 2012 and a good selection of hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles by 2020. Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia propose using polysaccharides, or sugary carbohydrates, from biomass to directly produce low-cost hydrogen for the new hydrogen economy. We are stuck so much on generation of hydrogen. I read more and more ways to create it but not many on how to create or adapt the current distribution infrastructures to transport and contain it. I like the idea of a self-contained hydrogen generation. Like the aluminum-gallium pellet process found by accident by Purdue researchers. (LINK) Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence | 
