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Tomorrow's Energy: Hydrogen, Fuel Cells,
Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
By Peter Hoffmann
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$17.95
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Hydrogen is the quintessential eco-fuel. This invisible, tasteless gas
is the most abundant element in the universe. It is the basic building
block and fuel of stars and an essential raw material in innumerable
biological and chemical processes. As a completely nonpolluting fuel,
it may hold the answer to growing environmental concerns about
atmospheric accumulation of carbon dioxide and the resultant
Greenhouse Effect. In this book Peter Hoffmann describes current
research toward a hydrogen-based economy. He presents the history of
hydrogen energy and discusses the environmental dangers of continued
dependence on fossil fuels. Hydrogen is not an energy source but a
carrier that, like electricity, must be manufactured. Today hydrogen
is manufactured by "decarbonizing" fossil fuels. In the future it will
be derived from water and solar energy and perhaps from "cleaner"
versions of nuclear energy. Because it can be made by a variety of
methods, Hoffmann argues, it can be easily adapted by different
countries and economies. Hoffmann acknowledges the social, political,
and economic difficulties in replacing current energy systems with an
entirely new one. Although the process of converting to a
hydrogen-based economy would be complex, he demonstrates that the
environmental and health benefits would far outweigh the costs.
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The message of The Hydrogen Economy is resoundingly simple: The
earth is depleting its oil reserves and even the most generous estimates
show oil reserves peaking in about forty years. The specter of global
warming and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the oil-rich regions of
the earth worsen the problem considerably. The answer, asserts Rifkin, is
to embrace a new energy source that is just now gaining public attention:
hydrogen.
This abundant element, found everywhere on earth including in air and
water, can be transformed, using sustainable methods, into a potentially
limitless form of clean-burning fuel. But this potential will founder
unless we act now to create the necessary global infrastructure before the
factors above overtake us. If we embrace this momentous opportunity,
Rifkin says, we will also be able to reinvent the global economy as one in
which an inexpensive energy grid provides affordable, efficient fuel for
virtually everyone on earth. If we fail, our current economic regime-built
exclusively on fossil fuels-will collapse. As the concept of a
hydrogen-based future grows in the news, The Hydrogen Economy will
lead the way.
Book Info Global
warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our
profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps,
but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for
The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and
Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly
entertaining look at the economic, political, and technological forces
that are reshaping the world's management of energy resources. In it, he
documents an energy revolution already underway--a revolution as radical
as the communications revolution of the past decades.
From the corporate boardroom of a Texas oil titan who denies the reality
of global warming to a think tank nestled in the Rocky Mountains where a
visionary named Amory Lovins is developing the kind of hydrogen fuel-cell
technology that could make the internal combustion engine obsolete,
Vaitheeswaran gamely pursues the people who hold the keys to our future.
Man's quest for energy is insatiable. It is also essential. By avoiding
the traditional binaries that pit free markets against the wisdom of
conservation and the need for clean energy, Power to the People is
a book that debunks myths without debunking hope.
