Around 50 million new fossil-fuelled cars are being added every year to the existing 600 million or so such vehicles in the world.  In the face of rapid oil reserve depletion, supply uncertainty and record crude prices, we must consider the possibility that a large proportion of this massive investment in last century’s technology could become useless at some point in the relatively near future, unless alternative liquid fuels are developed.

By using fossil fuels in the current manner, we are changing our climate and damaging the environment.

Global oil reserves are depleting, whilst demand (particularly from China and India) is rising sharply.  The combined effect will be a rapid, long-term rise in oil prices.

We need low greenhouse, low emission, and low consumption energy systems.

Other energy alternatives such as hydrogen or petrol/electric hybrid motor vehicles are many years from widespread commercial release or have disadvantages compared to Pritchard Power systems. 

Pritchard Power systems are a realistic, low greenhouse, low emission alternative to existing fossil fuelled energy systems. Pritchard systems have been proven in the field and require only a relatively small amount of further developmental expenditure in order to be available for large-scale manufacture in a number of applications.
Why has steam been largely ignored as a realistic alternative to the petrol engine and other fossil-fuel forms of power generation?  Early versions of steam vehicles could not match their petrol-powered competition for instant start up and delivery of power.  Those problems have been largely overcome in Pritchard power systems (with around a fifty-second start-up time possible), meaning that the many advantages of such systems make it imperative that they be considered as a serious alternative in these days of depleting oil reserves and accelerating climate change.