The Hydrogen Frontier

Beneath the New Orleans pizzazz is a heritage of pollution, class inequality and unethical business that puts profit before the well-being of employees and the environment. Sebastian Delacroix experiences this first hand while watching his father toil as a mechanic at an aluminum plant fraught with daily hazards that take a toll on workers' physical health and the surrounding environment. Eventually, Chalmette Aluminum's promises of prosperity becomes a death sentence for Sebastian's father and many others. Its history of bribery and cover-ups gives birth to a cycle of environmental and social destruction in the working-class community. The odds are against a blue-collar kid breaking the barrier of inequality, yet Sebastian forges ahead with his plans to show the the world that hydrogen is indeed the fuel of the future. But first he must break down the barriers to education that have trapped blue-collar kids for generations so that he can become a young man who saves the world. The Hydrogen Frontier unveils the truth about climate change through an historical and scientific lens and asks the question: What are you doing to stop global warming? The world could be one engineer away from a breakthrough.