According to the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, Germany is in the international forefront of fighting climate change: “The clear alternative and the best news from 2012 came from Germany, the one big country that’s taken climate change seriously....There were days last summer when [Germans] generated more than half the power that they used from solar panels.” In fact, hydrogen technology will be an integral part of Germany’s evolving renewable/alternative energy-based system.
在笔者和环保人士麦吉本（Bill McKibben）看来，德国是国际气候变化冲突阵线的先锋：“2012年最明确的替代方案和最好的消息来自德国，这个大国在认真对待气候变化问题……去年夏天某些时候，（德国）使用的电力中有一大半来自太阳能。”事实上，氢技术将成为德国不断进步的基于可再生/替代能源的系统的主要部分之一。