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alternative energy sources
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clean energy transition
clean hydrogen energy
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Explosive Gas Air Mixtures
fossil fuels
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Hydride Storage
Hydride Tanks
Hydrogen Air Mixtures
Hydrogen Economy
hydrogen economy research
Hydrogen Production
hydrogen production for transportation
Hydrogen Safety
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Inflammable Air
Liquid Hydrogen
Low NOX
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NASA's Lewis Research Center
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sustainable fuel technology
Thermochemical Cycles
Thermochemical Water Splitting
West Germany
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- ISBN 9780367292256
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In a world increasingly plagued by pollution, where limited availability of fossil fuels creates international tensions, and where global disaster from proliferating technology lurks on the horizon, the search for alternative synthetic fuels is no longer an idle scientist's dream—it is necessity. Hydrogen—with its vast and ready availability from water, its nearly universal utility, and its inherently benign characteristics—is one of several attractive synthetic fuels being considered for a "post-fossil-fuel" world, and it may well be the miracle fuel of the future. It is of special interest because, technically at least, it is so easily produced and because it produces simple water vapor in the combustion process rather than loading an already burdened environment with more hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide and monoxide, sulfur, particulate matter, and even more exotic pollutants. Journalist Peter Hoffmann describes worldwide scientific work toward a future hydrogen economy, looking at the auspicious prospects of this potential fuel, at its applicability to powering everything from automobiles to airplanes, and at the principles and technologies involved in making hydrogen a viable energy alternative. He examines how—and how soon—nature's simplest element may become available as an energy carrier, as well as the economic conditions that will accompany its introduction and the social impact of "clean" hydrogen energy. The picture he paints of the fuel future is a welcome alternative to the now-common prognostications of impending doom.
Peter Hoffmann is deputy bureau chief of McGraw-Hill World News in Bonn, Germany. His interest in hydrogen began in 1972.
