TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Component: The water is brackish water, distilled water, seawater, tap water, or water contained in urine; and supplied from the fuel cell effluent or the engine exhaust. Preferred Method: The method further comprises catalyzing the reaction by short wavelength UV light; enhancing the rate of the reaction and separating the hydrogen by enhanced nucleation accomplished by using an absorbed glass mat and generation of a vortex during the mixing process; and supplying the produced hydrogen to a device from a fuel cell, an engine exhaust after-treatment system, or an engine combustion chamber. The water-catalyst and silicon-containing compound are combined at a rate to generate a predetermined pressure and supply of hydrogen provided that the pressure build up is monitored in a mixing chamber and controlled by the opening and closing of check valves.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The organic amine catalyst comprises combination of at least two propylamine, octylamine (preferably), aniline, and ethanolamine. The silicon-containing compound is from powdered siloxene (preferably), layered polysilane or a silane oligomer with at least three repeating groups; or pyrolized rice straw ash and/or pyrolized rice husk ash. The catalyst comprises an optionally substituted mono, di or tri-alkyl amine, hydroxyalkylamine, or optionally substituted mono, di or tri-alkenylamine; an alkyl amine from methylamine, ethylamine, propylamine (preferably), isopropylamine, butylamine, tert-butylamine, pentylamine, hexylamine, heptylamine, octylamine, nonylamine, decylamine, undecylamine, dodecylamine, tridecylamine, tetradecylamine, pentadecylamine, hexadecylamine, heptadecylamine, octadecylamine, nonadecylamine, icosylamine, henicosylamine, doicosylamine, triicosylamine, and/or tetraicosylamine; palladium acetate, copper acetate, copper sulfate, octylamine, aniline, ethanolamine, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, beta -picoline, propylamine, hexyl diamine, pentadecylamine, tributyl amine, tert-butyl amine, ethylbutyl amine, and/or decylamine; combination of at least two octylamine, propylamine, aniline, ethanolamine, sodium hydroxide, calcium oxide, calcium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide, preferably propylamine and potassium hydroxide. EXAMPLE - Water (2 ml) and a small piece of absorbed glass mat was mixed, added with potassium hydroxide to obtain a 0.25 M, added with n-octylamine (0.05 ml), contacted with water, added with phenylsilane (1 ml), and the gas generated by the reaction was collected. The gas collected was 25% higher than reactions described in U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/705,331.