As I drive through my neighborhood, while I LOVE looking at the beautiful displays, I can’t help but think about the wasted resources, pollution, etc. that those displays consume. (And SOME of the people in my neighborhood are like the guys in “Deck the Halls,” totally excessive, consume the same power as small emerging nations, so we could really use a clean renewable source of energy.) It would be so great to be able to feel OK about using energy again.

I recently started doing some work for Ecotality (www.ecotality.com). They’ve partnered with JPL to create a hydrogen-on-demand system they call the hydratus. If it can be made into a full production system, it could be used for all kinds of power generation. Then we wouldn’t have to feel guilty about holiday festivities, or about going through our everyday lives.

Lisa Hart