Hydrogen And The Use Of Helium

Helium is the coolest thing in the world. It changes your voice. It makes your voice higher when your voice is really low. You put it in Balloons to make it stay up. You usually use it for party's. Well the first time that I did it it was really funny. But for my grandpas surprise birthday party we used helium for the balloons.

The Hindenburg disaster occurred on May 6, 1937, when a German airship caught fire and was destroyed during a landing attempt in New Jersey. There were 35 deaths (13 passengers and 22 crew members). The German Airship was a blimp, therefore it was filled with gasses in order to float. the Hindenburg disaster was caused by an electrostatic discharge that ignited leaking hydrogen. The difference in electricity likely caused a spark to jump from the fabric which was used to cover the blimp (which had the ability to hold a charge) to the ship’s framework (which was grounded through the landing line). Because one was so negatively charged and the other was so positively charged, it resulted in a giant spark which blew up the

Hydrogen is very explosive and Since there was so much hydrogen in the hindenburg something bad happened to it on its last flight.

The use of a hydrogen fleet, would solve many of the existing emissions issues associated with diesel fuel usage. ”Vision Motor calls their hydrogen tractor a Zero Emissions Terminal Tractor, or ZETA. It's the right thing for southern California because of its benefits to people's health, says LaRosa, citing lung and respiratory diseases blamed on exhaust smoke from internal combustion engines.” (http://www.truckinginfo.com/article/story/2012/04/hydrogen-fuel-cells-could-be-socal-fleets-future.aspx) Hydrogen offers no emissions in the air other than vapor, and fuel economy is better than most gasoline powered vehicles, roughly in the 30-50% range. Currently hydrogen is very costly to produce, and there isn’t enough infrastructure to support a full fleet of

Tiny molecules comprise our world are called elements, there are different kinds of elements, one is Helium, abbreviated by the symbol He. Note that the first letter is uppercase, and the second lowercase. It was discovered in 1868 when a French astronomer, Pierre Janssen, examined spectral lines from the sun and saw an unfamiliar element. The unknown element was named Helium, after the greek word ‘helios’ meaning sun. Though it was discovered on the sun, it can be found in the ground of the Earth. It forms out of the radioactive decay of metals such as uranium and cleveite, and is plentiful in the soil of Texas.

Though the hydrogen is found abundantly in the nature but due to some of its properties has made difficulties to handle it for the industrial use. Due to it lightest it is stored under pressure as a liquid hydrogen. It has a fast burning rate as compared to the other fuels so any hot spots or sources of ignition should be avoided. May 6, 1937 Hindenburg tragedy, report from the intelligence suggested a static friction between the metal (duralumin) and the fabric was the cause of the tragedy. This means hydrogen needs to handle very carefully.

Hydrogen and fuel cells are not technically renewable energy although they are everywhere and don't cause much pollution. With hydrogen, it can be used as fuel and the only emission is water. By using hydrogen there can be a large reduction in green house gases and air pollution. Plus the hydrogen can be used in the fuels cells to power electric motors or batteries for electricity. If your wondering what fuel cells is, there pretty much batteries, or what you would power an electric car with. The only thing about hydrogen is that it is hard to obtain, or it takes more energy to make it than it gives off. Hydrogen is an element on the periodic table and is in the gas family. Hydrogen’s atomic number is 1and it was discovered by a man by the name of Henry Cavendish in the year of 1766. Hydrogen has no color, taste, and smell, is slightly soluble in water and is highly explosive. Hydrogen can be found anywhere in the universe and is used as the fuel for many solar reactions. The hydrogen that is in our atmosphere has three different isotopes and they are called protium, which has one proton, then deuterium, which has one proton and one neutron. Then the third is tritium, which has one proton and two neutrons. Now if your wondering what protons and neutrons are, then you came to the right place. A proton is sub atomic particle with a positive charge found in the nucleus of an atom. A neutron is a sub atomic particle with a negative

There are many different uses for helium. Most people associate helium with party balloons and the Goodyear blimp. A dangerous (don’t try this at home!) thing that is commonly known about helium is if inhaled it can cause vocal changes. By inhaling helium (usually out of party balloons) this results in a high pitched voice, most similar to that of Alvin from ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks’. There are however, some other very interesting ways that helium is used. Helium is used for welding, MRI scanners, deep water diving, and even fueling rocket engines used by NASA!

Some of these contrasts are easily clarified. For example, nonmetals such as Hydrogen, Helium, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Neon, and Krypton are much less abundant relative to silicon on Earth than they are in the rest of the universe. These elements are either noble gases (Helium, Neon, and Krypton) or elements that form volatile hydrides, such as NH3(Ammonia), CH4(Methane), and H2O(Water). Because of Earth’s gravity not being strong enough to hold such light substances in the atmosphere, these elements have been slowly dispersing into outer space ever since Earth was formed. Argon is an exception; it is relatively abundant on Earth when compared with the other noble gases because it is continuously produced in rocks by the radioactive decay

Hydrogen cars are currently being produced, but the cost of these cars is much more than the average American can afford. For example, the Hydrogen Shelby Cobra starts at $150,000. The Cobra holds four gallons and can get 25 miles to the gallon. This is a major problem, especially due to

Hydrogen fuel is one of two important elements found in water h2o. Hydrogen fuel also is currently being researched as a alternate fuel so were using less oil products. It is created from fossil fuels but can also be obtained from wind, solar, and nuclear power. As fetched as this seems hydrogen fuel may be the best viable option in the near future.

With gas prices escalating and fossil fuels becoming limited, scientists have been researching an alternative fuel source that will be more abundant and cost efficient. Issues with our current fuel source include the pollution that is emitted in our air and water sources and the fact that fossil fuels are becoming scarce. One alternative to gasoline is the use of hydrogen as a fuel source. With hydrogen as a fuel source pollution will be in decline, it has become increasingly more abundant than fossil fuels through extracting hydrogen from various sources, and is domestically produced.

Hydrogen itself produces miniscule amounts of pollution when burned. The problem that stands is that hydrogen is only found as a compound, and not by itself. Water contains a good amount of hydrogen, but also contains oxygen. However, we can extract the hydrogen atoms through a process called electrolysis. Electrolysis separates the hydrogen atoms from the oxygen atom to create HHO gas.

Moreover, another vulnerable point was mentioned in the article “Road to Hydrogen Cars May Not Be So Clean.” Hydrogen is a very leaky gas that could escape from cars and hydrogen plants into the atmosphere. Hydrogen that leaks into the atmosphere binds with oxygen molecules, forming vapor and clouds. This could lead to additional global warming according to Tim Patterson, a professor at Carlton University in Canada. He claims that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere has the most significant influence on global temperature. And Catherine G. Padro, at Los Alamos National Laboratory, says that hydrogen can act as a kind of CFC, destroying part of the earth’s atmospheric ozone which shields us from cancer-causing solar radiation. At present, there are still a lot of problems which should be investigated in detail before we commit ourselves to the use of hydrogen fuel cells.

Hydrogen is proven to be the most efficient furl because of its abundance and the production of harmless bi-products as compared fossil fuel. Despite the abundance in its natural existence, Hydrogen can also be obtained through processes such as the electrolysis of water and methanol steam conversion. Hydrogen as a fuel is capable of the replacement of most of the other sources of energy. However, Hydrogen faces numerous obstacles to its entry into the economy and the utilization by human beings. The technology to contain and manage hydrogen as a fuel is already present. However, the hindrances bar the launch of hydrogen as a basic fuel. The essay discusses the various obstacles to the hydrogen economy such as the market entry issues and issues related to policies.