Truckers Choose Hydrogen Power - Fuel cells are so last year. A bolt-on, hydrogen-burning engine add-on is catching on among truckers. It saves tons of money, cuts pollution and allows for more-powerful acceleration. By Stephen Leahy. [Planet Earth]

Recently, the trucking industry has begun to test and use hydrogen to help power their diesel engines. Canadian Hydrogen Energy has helped solve a lot of problems for trucking companies with the invention of the HFI system, which is a hydrogen fuel injection system. The problem with hydrogen vehicles in present time is the fact that we do not have hydrogen fill stations and carrying large amounts of it in canisters can be a hassle and very expensive. With the HFI system Hydrogen is produced while the truck is driving using electricity from the alternator and small amounts of distilled water. The HFI system not only improves gas mileage but it also increases horsepower, and of course cuts down on pollution. After testing the HFI system on four trucks the president of Great Plains Trucking, Sherwin Fast, has decided to order twenty five more. Fast was quoted saying, “’We're saving $700 a month per truck on fuel.’”
I believe the Canadians have the right idea, unlike many other corporations they decided to make a small step towards better fuel economy and reduction of emissions. Too many people are coming out with cars powered by fuel-cells which are not feasible to mass produce with the technology available today. Along with smarter steps such as this HFI system people also need to realize they are slowly killing this planet and do something about it. Americans have become lazy and instead of walking when it is a short distance, they choose to drive their SUV or pick-up trucks, which burn huge amounts of gasoline. Canadian Hydrogen Energy’s Steve Gilchrist points out that California Officials are willing to spend one million dollars for a single prototype fuel-cell vehicle. Each HFI system costs in the range of four thousand and fourteen thousand dollars, a million dollars would buy many HFI systems. This in turn would provide a lot less pollution than one fuel-cell vehicle.
Although technology is steadily advancing, and I am sure one day we will have vehicles that will produce very little or no pollution at all, I still believe that people need to take more responsibility in saving this planet. Not only will walking or riding a bike for small errands help save the planet it will also help your health. Not enough people exercise and children no longer play outside. Technology claims to be slowly saving the world but at the moment I feel it is ruining it. People are careless and lazy; children would rather be on the internet on a sunny day than outside playing in the yard. People are slowly coming around, and the ones that have not yet began to turn around to these problems soon will. I trust that man kind will do what is necessary to save this planet, and help restore it to the beautiful land it should be. All I ask is walk instead of drive on a nice day or even car pool if you can, but help do your part to preserve the earth.