San Juan, Puerto Rico (July 8, 2008) -Bergerac Investments is proud to announce that one of its Principals, James Provenzano, coauthored the book “The Hydrogen Age, Empowering a Clean-Energy Future”, from Gibbs Smith Publisher, 2007. The book recently received the silver award in the Environment/Ecology/Nature category of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards.

James is President of Clean Air Now, a public advocacy group that focuses on educating the public on the need to transition society toward a renewable hydrogen energy economy. James has over 15 years of experience in dealing with the public and private sectors in implementing hydrogen energy technologies and plays a major role in shaping policy and the deployment of “green” technologies to improve our quality of life.

“An exciting opportunity for me was being able to coauthor, with my good friend Geoffrey Holland, this new book which is geared to the layperson and for the uninitiated. However, those with knowledge of hydrogen energy technologies will learn a lot of new things. We point out that hydrogen is nothing new to our economy, how it holds promise as an energy carrier, what it can do for society, the technologies that utilize hydrogen, and what we need to do to realize a future that is truly pollution-free. As a biologist I am concerned for all living organism that inhabit our beautiful planet. I feel that if we are to have a bright future, hydrogen has to be part of our energy economy. This wonderful substance will provide the world with so much. As we state in the book, why wouldn’t we choose a fuel that is non-toxic, provides no polluting emissions, is limitless in supply, is relatively safer than gasoline, can provide all the world’s people with needed energy, can be made at our own homes, and produces its own feedstock when it is used? Well we can, and that fuel is hydrogen”, James stated.

Hydrogen stands out as the best alternative to traditional polluting fossil fuels because it is clean with no polluting emissions, nontoxic, renewable, at least as safe as the fuels we currently use, universally available, easily adaptable to a broad range of applications, we could safely make it in our own homes, and it even produces its own feedstock. Any energy source that can be made into electricity can also make hydrogen. That is the key to a clean, sustainable energy future.

Clean Air Now is offering its members a free copy of the book when renewing their membership at the $75 level. The book is also available on www.amazon.com and www.bn.com. If you would like to learn more about the book, feel free to contact James at 310.472.8633 or .

James Provenzano, President of Clean Air Now and co-author of “The Hydrogen Age” and José Riera, Managing Director of Bergerac Investments.