TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING - Preferred Apparatus: The hydrogen outlet comprises a hydrogen permeable membrane (18). The reaction chamber further comprises a silicate collector, and the mixing chamber comprises a mixing tee (15). The hydrogen generation device comprises a reaction chamber having a silane inlet, a water inlet, and a hydrogen outlet, and an outlet for precipitate. The silane inlet further comprises an ultraviolet light source. The device further comprises a mixing chamber (II) to mix alkaline-earth metal hydroxide and silane, an alkaline-earth metal hydroxide outlet connected to the mixing chamber (II), and an alkaline-earth metal oxide collection chamber connected to mixing chamber (II). The mixing chamber (II) comprises a silane inlet, a mixing tee, and a hydrogen outlet (II) having a hydrogen permeable membrane. The hydrogen outlet (II) is connected to hydrogen outlet (I).    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Method: Hydroxide is not added to water or silane, and is added by the reaction of a metal with water. The metal is obtained by photovoltaic reduction of a metal oxide. The produced hydrogen is then separated from silicate. Carbon dioxide is not produced during manufacture of hydrogen.Preferred Catalyst: The catalyst comprises scandium, titanium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, yttrium, zirconium, niobium, molybdenum, technetium, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, silver, cadmium, hafnium, tantalum, tungsten, rhenium, osmium, indium, platinum, gold, mercury, rutherfordium, dubnium, seaborgium, bohrium, hassium, meitnerium, ununnilium, unununium and/or ununbium. The catalyst comprises palladium-carbon (10%), palladium-copper, Raney nickel, ruthenium-carbon (5%), chloroplatinic acid, palladium chloride, palladium acetate (PdOAc2) and/or copper acetate (CuOAc2). The catalyst comprises (un)substituted mono, di and trialkyl amine, hydroxy alkylamine, (un)substituted mono, di and trialkenyl amine, Jeffamine (RTM: polyoxy alkylamine), (un)substituted imidazole, benzimidazole, imidazolidine, imidazoline, oxazole, pyrrole, thiazole, pyridine, pyrazine, morpholine, pyridazine, pyrimidine, pyrrolidine, pyrazole, quinoxaline, quinazoline, phthalozine, quinoline, purine, indazole, indole, indolazine, phenazine, phenarsazine, phenothiazine, pyrroline, indoline, piperidine or piperazine, preferably octylamine, butylamine or methyl amine.Preferred Compound: The silane comprises one or more organosilane, polysilane or silicide, preferably magnesium silicide, calcium silicide, disilabutane, tetrasilyl ethylene, tetrasilyl methane, trisilyl methane, silyl acetylene, disilyl acetylene, t-butyl dimethyl silane, trimethyl silane, phenylsilane, disilyl benzene, trisilyl benzene and/or hexasilyl benzene, preferably disilabutane or phenylsilane.