288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
A Hydrogen Song -- Introduction -- The Basic Element: The Discovery of Hydrogen -- Early Visions: The History of the Hydrogen Movement -- Hydrogen from Natural Gas, Electrolysis, Thermochemistry: Present and Future Production -- Solar and Nuclear Power: Hydrogen’s Primary Energy Sources -- Water Vapor from the Tailpipe: Hydrogen as Automotive Fuel -- Clean Contrails over Lake Erie: Hydrogen as Aircraft Fuel -- The Invisible Flame: Hydrogen as Utility Gas -- Fertilizer, Steel, and Protein-Producing Microbes: Nonenergy Uses of Hydrogen -- The Hindenburg Syndrome: Is Hydrogen Safe? -- Scenarios for the Future
Biography
Peter Hoffmann is deputy bureau chief of McGraw-Hill World News in Bonn, Germany. His interest in hydrogen began in 1972.
