[Consort]

It will be a "fuel" if enough people say it's a "fuel." The government and industry say to it as a fuel. It's probably a fuel.

[Fabozz]

Popular opinion, policital gamesmanship and slick corporate marketing do not alter the Laws of Thermodynamics. Until a source of ready-to-use molecular hydrogen is discovered, the energy spent to produce H₂ plus the energy value of the feedstock will always be greater than the energy available through consuming H₂. This is a simple and unalterable fact, one which you can confirm with the help of any first-semester Physics textbook in existence.

The greenies say hydrogen is a fuel because without promising (falsely) the masses a replacement for gasoline to run their cars, the "watermelon" agenda would be dead on arrival. The government says hydrogen is a fuel because this country must invest more in nuclear power, and hydrogen is the "Trojan horse" that will slip nukes past the greenies. And corporations like Ballard Power say hydrogen is a fuel because it attracts big-bucks investment. Those entities' press releases notwithstanding, hydrogen will always be just a bookkeeping trick that shuffles energy from one column to another, losing a little along the way.