The advent of the hydrogen ecconomy will merge transportation and power industries.
Tangent - refering to a slide of various energy systems, among the myriad systems are the words "the next". Caveat, no one can predict accurately what will happen, because there is the next thing is bound to screw everything up...and that's okay. Me: This gives me hope, as I am an optimisitic sort, and assume the next thing will be a better thing.
Fuel Cells explained...
Every major automotive producer is working on fuel cells. But there has been little innovation in fuel cell development. There has been little change in the basic configuration of the fuel cell since the early 90s.
The end goal...
The scenario: your car plugs into a charger in your garage. If the grid goes out, you flip a switch and your car powers your home. Your car powers your lakeside home which is off the grid.
When? The above is 20-50 years away. In the meantime, it needs to be implemented in industry. It needs to drop in price per kiloWatt.
There are direct relationships between energy per capita cost and quality of life and ecconomic development. If 12% of us wreak havoc as we have, and the remaining 88% follow our example, it will spell doom for the earth.
Time to transition to something else.
Posted by weez at October 18, 2003 03:46 PMMan has evolved from the stone age to the iron age to the industrial age to the infomation/computer age. The universe has been, and hopefully will continue to be, powered by hydrogen explosions from the sun. It's about time the internal combustion engine became powered by hydrogen... Man should learn how to harness this energy source, hydrogen. Water can be split and yield unlimited sources of hydrogen. Forget about getting it from already commercially developed hydrocarbon products, such as gasoline or natural gas. This is a waste. Hydrogen is already available in its most simple form as H2O, water...Split water into H2 and O2 to derive unlimited supplies of hydrogen. Its about time the oil & gas industries woke up...They should be more than able to "adapt and overcome". The world eagarly awaits. So be it.
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