Stanford professor believes "hydrogen" as an energy source is code for "nuclear"

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Q. ...Isn't the opposition to nuclear power strong enough to prevent its use?

A. Not when and if refusing to build nuclear plants results in a substantial loss of a country's standard of living. Politicians seem to believe that mentioning nuclear energy is political poison at present. They may be right or it may be just one more superstition prevalent among politicians and their consultants. Recently a taboo against mentioning nuclear energy has developed among scientists - especially those specializing in energy. None of the articles in the recent special issue of Science devoted to energy mentioned nuclear energy - pro or con - even though nuclear energy provides 17 percent of American electricity. Perhaps energy scientists feel that mentioning nuclear energy will have an adverse effect on their grants. Perhaps there is some other reason. To some extent "hydrogen" in the energy literature is a code word for nuclear energy, since many articles promoting hydrogen don't say how else it can be generated economically in the quantities required to run an economy.

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/nuclear-faq.html

Author: John McCarthy's, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University