LOS ANGELES — Remember the hydrogen car?
A
decade ago, President George W. Bush espoused the environmental promise
of cars running on hydrogen, the universe’s most abundant element. “The
first car driven by a child born today,” he said in his 2003 State of
the Union speech, “could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution-free.”
That changed under Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning
physicist who was President Obama’s first Secretary of Energy. “We
asked ourselves, ‘Is it likely in the next 10 or 15, 20 years that we
will convert to a hydrogen-car economy?’” Dr. Chu said then. “The
answer, we felt, was ‘no.’ ” The administration slashed funding for
hydrogen fuel cell research.
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