SolarHydrogen Energy

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Solar-Hydrogen Energy
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Hydrogen the perfect fuel We Will Never Run Out
of Hydrogen
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The Perfect Fuel

• Water is split split by electricity, generated by
  the sun into gaseous hydrogen and oxygen
• hydrogen contains no carbon, therefore does not
  release carbon dioxide (like fossil fuels and
  biomass fuels

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The Perfect Fuel

• when hydrogen burns it combines with oxygen gas
  in the air and produces water vapor and some
  nitrogen oxides-this vapor can serve again as the
  source of hydrogen production-the cycle can be
  continued indefinitely.
• Hydrogen is the most abundant fuel in the
  universe, constituting 93 of all atoms but
  hydrogen gas is rare.

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Harnessing Hydrogen

• Break up water into Hydrogen and Oxygen gases
  with electrical current-ideally from solar panels
• hydrogen and oxygen merge in a fuel cell, forming
  water and release energy as electricity

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Why Hydrogen?

• eliminate air and water pollution caused by use
  of fossil fuels, (oil spills)
• reduce threat of global warming (CO2)
• on oil exploration and eliminates dependence on
  Middle East
• National Security, decrease wars over oil

• no environmental scars
• creates thousands of jobs
• eliminate need for coal fired power plants and
  let individuals produce most if not all of their
  energy.
• Compatible with nature, inexhaustible

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Why Not Hydrogen?

• Requires energy and to produce hydrogen fuel

• Difficult and expensive to store and transport

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Hydrogen Future Act of 1996 Authorize hydrogen
research, development and demonstration programs
of the DOE. -lead to production, storage,
transport and industrial, residential,
transportation and utility.
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Transportation

• 520 million cars and trucks on the road
  worldwide, all which burn gasoline or diesel
  fuel, both of which are refined from oil, the
  most limited and rapidly depleting fossil fuel.
• Pure hydrogen can be burned in an internal
  combustion engine to power conventional
  automobiles.
• Or hydrogen in a fuel cell can power an electric
  vehicle.

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Progress

• Companies with hydrogen fueled vehicles
• Mercedes Benz, BMW, Mazda and Ballard Power
  Systems.
• Ford and GM have also invested in hydrogen
  research

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• Hydrogen is the only clean burning,
  nonpolluting, non-greenhouse, inexhaustible fuel
  there is, and is the only sure bet for the
  future. -Carlton Salter