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"The hydrogen economy by Jeremy Rifkin (Tarcher, 2003) Rifkin refers to hydrogen as "a promissory note for humanity's future on Earth." The hydrogen economy is the best primer out there on the coming oil crisis and the new economy that is poised to emerge from the harnessing of hydrogen as a a alternative fuel source." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Several years ago, most people would have said that hydrogen-powered cars were the only solution—and exciting new developments from manufacturers like Honda have restored faith not only in hydrogen cars but also in a future hydrogen economy. However, hydrogen development is more challenging than had originally been anticipated, and will clearly be slow to yield workable results. We can't assume that hydrogen-powered cars will be perfected in time to head off the potential shortages and disastrous environmental consequences of peak oil and global warming." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"One example is the hydrogen economy, This crisis is so horrific which could free us from our dependence on fossil that it will shake us to fuel at little cost to the environment - if we have the our depths and awak- courage to embrace it. en the great slumbering divine secrets that The third star is the media itself. In the last few lie at our core. years the Internet has opened an unprecedented -? opportunity for the grassroots conveyance of radical information —under the radar of governments and corporations. This opens up the possibility of mobilizing tremendous forces all over the planet." - APC Books, Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of change Within to Change the World (Get the book.)

"Prepared for the World Congress for a hydrogen economy, November, 2001 Abstract When we talk about a hydrogen economy, we generally refer to the generation of energy from the combustion of hydrogen or from its conversion to electricity through fuel cells. These approaches have been with us for well over a century and have wide appeal because of their nonpolluting nature and cost-effective operations in the long run, when compared to a fossil fuel economy." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.) "But often missing from the discussion are more advanced technologies which could make a hydrogen economy all the more appealing and avoid the large expense of creating energy-intensive hydrogen production facilities and infrastructure. Basically, the traditional hydrogen economy involves the exothermic reaction between hydrogen fuel and oxygen in the atmosphere. This chemistry is well understood. But two other approaches now being researched are much more promising and provide far greater amounts of energy. One is the hydrogen gas cell and hydrogen plasma cell technologies of Dr." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.) "Perhaps we are fortunate not to have developed a full fledged hydrogen economy yet. Instead, we might be able to move from fossil fuels to new energy in one elegant step. Still, I feel that a careful plan for the hydrogen economy, in parallel with supporting research and development of a new energy economy, could give us a coherent strategy to supplant fossil fuels as soon as possible." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.) "Or it is conceivable that our classical conception of a hydrogen economy by transforming ordinary hydrogen into water may be trumped by cold fusion, Randell Mills' more energetic hydrogen-to-hydrino process or other new energy initiatives such as Bearden's, based on electromagnetic interactions with the zero point field. Perhaps we are fortunate not to have developed a full fledged hydrogen economy yet. Instead, we might be able to move from fossil fuels to new energy in one elegant step." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.)

"Ulf Bossel and Baldur Eliasson, "Energy and the hydrogen economy," EVWorld (http://evworld.com), January 2003. at the cost of scores of billions of dollars (assuming the other technical problems could be overcome). This is unlikely to happen. Add to this that the infrastructure of every individual fueling station in America would have to be retrofitted. What all this boils down to is that a hydrogen-powered automobile system and all its supporting infrastructure cannot be substituted for an oil-based system under any plausible equation currently understood." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "We'd get less energy out of the hydrogen than we would put in to create the hydrogen, so what would be the point? The "hydrogen economy" fantasy also does not address the issue of replacing oil and gas to heat tens of millions of houses and other buildings. Hydrogen composes about 73 percent of all the matter in the universe—at least in our neighborhood of the universe. But it is not found naturally in a free state near the planet Earth. Around here it is always bound to other elements in chemical compounds. Water, H20, is the most common: two hydrogen atoms bound to one of oxygen." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "To some extent, the term "hydrogen economy" is a disguise for "nuclear economy," because nuclear energy may be the advanced societies' only realistic resort where large-scale electric generation is concerned, and the subtext is that an expanded and updated array of nuclear plants could produce large amounts of hydrogen economically. But I will get back to the question of nuclear energy itself later in this chapter. Of course hydrogen is produced commercially now and has many industrial and chemical uses. But compared with the oil we burn, the amount of hydrogen used by industry is minuscule." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Proposals for switching from an oil and gas to a hydrogen economy are generally associated with the fuel cell technology. A single fuel cell is basically a piece of plastic between a couple of carbon plates that are sandwiched between two end plates acting as electrodes. These plates have channels that distribute the fuel and oxygen. They are modular and can be stacked to produce different amounts of power. Fuel cells can operate at efficiencies two to three times that of the internal combustion engine, and require no moving parts." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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