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The Hydrogen Fuel Cell could revolutionize the world. This ingenious technology, which creates electricity from the chemical reactions of hydrogen and oxygen has, in its 150-year history, passed many of the critical tests along the path from invention to innovation. Recent developments in fuel cell technology and concurrent developments within the energy and automotive industries have brought the world to brink of the fuel cell age and the hydrogen economy.

By encouraging innovation and technology, Houston brings forward positive changes in a number of factors that benefit the energy industry, including efficiency, productivity, quality and competitiveness. Fitzgerald describes innovation as the ‘ticket to the future’ (Joyner, 2010, pp. 1) It is achieved through brainstorming fast and new ideas, focusing on the big picture, and knowing the needs of the market. The fundamental role of technology, in the energy industry specifically, is achieving great advancements to improve the status of the current industry. This could consist of increasing output, improving effectiveness, or enhancing use. Within

These sources of energy have a great upside, but right now are incredibly inefficient compared with fossil fuels because of the lack of funding and worldly push (2009). If there isn’t a bigger investment in these alternative energies, fossil fuels are going to maintain their stranglehold on all the economies of the world (Lomborg, 2009).

In early 1870’s many researcher’s tried to use some of the alternative fuel to have a better efficiency and to reduce the emission rate, hydrogen was one of the element which they have found out to be

The search for a renewable energy source has been a top priority to us a human race in the past decade. Many ideas have come in the form of wind, solar, and nuclear power, all having their own drawbacks. But, the one that will be focused upon in this analysis is hydrogen as a source of fuel, and the technology leading the way to making it a reality. This technology would affect everyone in one way or another if correctly used. So we must ask if this technology is beneficial to us, how it might hurt us, and whether it is worth pursuing from an ethical stance.

Although Americans make up only 5% of the world’s population, the US burns up nearly 25% of the coal, 26% of the oil, and 27% of the world’s natural gas (“The State…”). In an era where humans are using up more resources than we possess, they’re actively seeking out the most quintessential form of resource usage. Since doing this however, our abundance of fossil fuels is severely diminishing. Although many people are aware of this dangerous issue, whether a scientific professional or everyday citizen, they tend to overlook the importance of the issue. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are an optimal solution to this issue, despite the costs and labor issues due to the vehicles being in an early stage of manufacturing. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are much more beneficial and environmentally safe than regular conventional vehicles.

Hyundai has engineered a vehicle that uses hydrogen cells for power. These hydrogen cells create electricity through an “electrochemical reaction with onboard hydrogen and oxygen in the air” (Stoffels). The final product is water that is emitted through the vehicle’s tailpipe. Changing the hydrogen cell takes around ten minutes to complete, and hydrogen fueled vehicles can travel around 300 miles compared to the normal average of 310 gallons per tank of gas(United States Department of

However, there are some cons to hydrogen fueling which is why scientists are still in conflict about this topic. Firstly, in order to extract the hydrogen necessary to power cars and other vehicles it would have to come from methane. By doing this it would lead to a cleaner fueling source however the methane would release large amounts of carbon dioxide in the process. To add, once the hydrogen is harvested in order to split it into individual molecules it would take lots of electrical power which would again have huge impacts on the environment and we still haven't converted hydrogen into a usable fuel source yet. Als this hydrogen reaction is very explosive, which raises the question would it be safe to use in vehicles when all it takes is a single spark for it to explode. Finally in order to fuel the cars, gas stations would have to be remodeled as well as the cars we currently use today. This would cost billions and billions of dollars just to allow for the new system of hydrogen fuel to be

Hydrogen powered cars are the flying cars that generations passed dreamed about. Even though they do not fly through the air, they are the car of the future. Hydrogen powered cars can be a complex subject, just as any new scientific incursion. This means that the field is constantly

Recent years have shown an increasingly large need for a practical renewable energy source for such reasons as diminishing fossil fuels and increases in greenhouse gasses. Hydrogen appears to be a way out of this gasoline-dug hole, or at least, a way out in the future. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are being engineered as we speak as the technologies to refuel them cleanly are being proposed. Unfortunately, most of the technologies associated with hydrogen are still in the prototype/pre-production stages and require better enhancements before becoming mainstream. This paper assesses the practicality of hydrogen power in cars both now and in the future while explicating the actual process of how a

There are several solutions to digress from the modern polluting ways of the car, but one of the easiest and most efficient is the usage of hydrogen to power the insurgent Hare pods.

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

Two motivators for the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier today are to provide a transition strategy from hydrocarbon fuels to a carbonless society and to enable renewable energy sources. The development of a high efficiency, low emissions Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engine (HICE) will lead to establishing a path for renewable hydrogen based fuel utilization. There is a major controversy between whether to use the HICE or the Gas Engine, as well as why to use each over the other.

The British government is the process of negotiating reforms before it holds a referendum about whether Britain should remain a member of the European Union or withdraw. While reforms are demanded publicly in four areas, there are issues behind those demands that are seldom pronounced openly.

For the past three decades Oil dominates the agenda of political discussion. With scares over price volatility, sizes of reserves, international imports and least of which are the environmental impacts due to carbon dioxide and other emissions. Various speculations and educated guesses place our total depletion of crude oil within the next 50 years and there is a general consensus between environmentalists that we steer toward a hydrogen transportation system given the projected work and nonexistent carbon dioxide emissions (Environmental Technologies class lecture, Santa Clara University). However many barriers stand in the way of attaining such a goal, most of which pertaining