Joseph J. Romm

This book couldn't have come out at a more timely moment, just when the hydrogen hype was hitting it's peak. Romm calls for a more reasonsed approach to hydrogen, not seeing it as a panacea, and calling for those who would overstate its potential to consider it more critically and rationally. That sort of advice can never be misguided.

Romm's summary of the problem of global warming is not the best out there, his focus is too centered on the United States, and the links between his proposed solutions and the gravity of the problem are weak at best.

But his book is the only one that has a firm grasp of the politically feasible, and if the U.S. get their act together and do something about global warming, the policies they will enact will probably follow along Romm's blueprint, and this political pragmatism is the book's show more great advantage over others of its kind. show less

Good overview of key rhetorical 'figures', but definitely feels like the main examples are overused.

The author covers the current status (at least to 2003) of hydrogen as a fuel source in general and as a tool for reducing greenhouse gases. Seem very detailed and broad, though somewhat repetitive - as though the chapters were taken from papers he had written previously, but had missed a few editing opportunities to connect them. Overall, though, a good read. Now I need to do research to see how well his predictions for the future are turning out in the last ten years. Ps: for the short show more term (20 years) the cheapest solution to reducing greenhouse gases is to upgrade or replace dirty energy (coal generation of electricity) and adopt policies to force the transport system to become cleaner (as in Europe). show less