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Slideshow: Hydrogen Is No Gas, Yet

Shortages and snafus are hurting the nascent hydrogen industry, but they could create an opportunity to develop more environmentally friendly fuel sources. By Mark Baard.
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Peter Lehman (left), director of the Schatz Energy Research Center, gives Humboldt State University President Alistair W. McCrone an overview of the center's fuel-cell power system. The Schatz Lab grew out of an earlier project at Humboldt State's marine laboratory.Schatz Energy Research Center

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Peter Lehman, director of the Schatz Energy Research Center at Humboldt State University, displays the center's fuel cell.

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The power is not under the hood -- it's behind the seat in Schatz Energy Research Center's fuel-cell-powered personal utility vehicle, shown with Peter Lehman (front) and Charles Chamberlin (back), directors of the center.

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