Hydrogen is the molecule of hope – economy

Jules Vernes already knew what is in hydrogen. In it lies an “inexhaustible source (…) of warmth and light”, he wrote in his novel “The Mysterious Island”. One day he would even drive locomotives, Vernes suspected. “Water is the coal of the future.” That was in 1875. Almost 150 years later, nothing has changed in these promises, on the contrary. Rarely have such great hopes been placed on a molecule as on this one: hydrogen, obtained from the splitting of water, H₂O, into H₂ and O. It is intended to revolutionize German and ultimately global industry, and that more or less the day after tomorrow.