A Hydrogen Perpetual Motion Machine.

[hunter]

9. Why do you say it would be "huge step back in the American lifestyle?"

Most proposals to reduce the environmental footprint of humans are huge steps forward and will improve the lives of everyone in terms of health and happiness.

Many environmentally destructive things that supposedly makes us happy (according to the smiling faces on television) are actually great sources of misery to many people.

Automobiles are no source of happiness for people who can't really afford to keep them in good repair but need them to work. They are no source of happiness when people killed or maimed in automobile accidents. If we dismantle our automobile culture by rebuilding our cities to make car ownership unnecessary people might be happier and healthier. That would be a step forward, not a step back.

Having more children than one can comfortably support is often a source of great misery. If birth control and realistic sex education is readily available to all then people might be healthier and happier and human population growth halted. That's a step forward, not back.

Factory farm meat and dairy production is bad for the environment, bad for the people who work in that industry, and worse for the animals...

Etc.. I can easily go on.