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Why Undepletable Hydrogen?
1. Abundant Clean Energy? The solar energy that falls on Earth each day equals the energy in 2.5 Trillion Barrels of oil. That's more energy in one day than the energy in all the oil that has ever existed. Enough clean energy is here! (See Abundant Energy Blog)
2. Can We Get It? Nature delivers and stores vast amounts of this solar energy in fairly constant strong winds and high waves, falling water, sun baked deserts and biomass where it can be tapped and serve humanity virtually without pollution and in harmony with Earth's life-sustaining cycles. Proven technologies can harvest this energy and efficiently deliver it as electricity, hydrogen or other energy forms.
3. Can We Use It? Hydrogen can be made efficiently from direct solar, wind, waves, falling water and biomass. Hydrogen also can cleanly fuel gasoline, diesel, and some utility engines with a conversion to Direct Cylinder SparkInjection . Via this conversion, hydrogen opens the huge transportation and utility fuel markets to all forms of solar energy. The conversion also increases engine efficiency as much as 20% on any fuel making it possible to pay for the conversion in fuel savings even if hydrogen is not available. As the hydrogen fuel market grows, capital investment increases and expands Undepletable Hydrogen production. Can we use it? -You bet we can.
4. Should We Use It? Hydrogen burns clean emitting only water. In converted gasoline engines hydrogen actually cleans the air as the engines operate. Undepletable Hydrogen makes no release of greenhouse gasses during production; hydrogen from biomass reduces greenhouse gasses with some production technologies. By increasing efficiency and replacing oil based fuels, hydrogen slows the dangerous pace of Peak Oil and reduces international tensions arising from diminishing oil supplies and ever increasing demand. By cleaning the air and water, Hydrogen reduces the incidence of lung disease, cancer and other pollution related diseases. Should we use it? Of course we should!
5. Must We Use It? Only if we wish to preserve our democracy, freedoms and civilization. Cheap oil powers the world economy from which prosperity springs; an inadequate supply or excessively high priced oil slows the world economy and dashes hopes of prosperity. A power shift from the oil poor and oil dependent world democracies to the oil rich dictators of the Middle East puts our national security and economy in the hands of Middle East Dictators. Oil shortages can create recessions, depressions, chaos and war. As China and India grow their economies and Peak Oil limits oil supplies new sources of energy will be required to support the 6.4 billion people on Earth. Hydrogen fuel reduces greenhouse gas emissions and begins reversing global warming; it also cleans the air and water reducing lung disease, cancer and other pollution related ailments.
6. Why not other depletable fossil fuels?
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a. Earth disgorged oil in gushers from large old oil fields; these fields now are rapidly depleting and replacement fields are smaller, their oil flows are slower and oil cannot be extracted from them fast enough to keep pace with the ever growing, energy demand of continued economic prosperity.
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b. It would cost $3 Trillion (not Billion) to power the world with fossil and depletable radioactive fuels until 2030 according to the International Energy Agency; then what? A full hydrogen infrastructure would cost only approximately $600 Billion (not Trillion).
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c. Shale oil must either be strip mined or coaxed out of the ground with chemicals or steam and a large, expensive infrastructure investment; heavy oil has similar problems. Even then output and processing of these oils is minimal compared to the gushes of the cheap oil that has powered the world economy for over a century and can no longer do it
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d. All fossil and radioactive fuels are depletable and it would be foolish to wait until they are gone before moving on to a better, cleaner fuel that does not pollute.
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e. It takes more energy and money to produce a synthetic fuel from coal or other fossil resources as opposed to burning them directly; and they all suffer slow output rates high pollutive constituents
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f. The sheer volume of energy needed to replace oil makes any depletable fuel impractical including natural gas.
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g. The horse and buggy age did not end because they ran out of horses or buggies; cars were better; the steam ship era did not run out of steam; airplanes were better; and the fossil era need not run out of fossil energy; Undepletable Hydrogen is better, cleaner, more abundant, and less expensive when mass produced.
7. Why not radioactive fuel? Nuclear power plants produce dangerous wastes that must be stored and protected for many centuries. These wastes can be used to make dirty bombs. The cost of this task alone makes radioactive energy economically unfeasible. Further the storage and plant sites become targets for terrorists. A bombing of a nuclear power plant could turn large tracts of America into waste lands and kill and injure countless people. The large number of nuclear plants required to replace oil and the vast amount of waste produced by them would be impractical and almost guarantee loss of radioactive wastes to dirty bomb makers. (Please visit our blog on ending radioactive energy)
8. Is hydrogen safe? Like gasoline, propane and natural gas, hydrogen is flammable and explosive. However, it is much lighter than air and rises quickly instead of staying on the ground where it can do damage. A NASA study of the Nazi owned Hindenburg blimp accident in New Jersey showed that lightning ignited the paint on the skin of the blimp (not the hydrogen inside it. The hydrogen from the blimp burned far above the wreckage. The damaging fire in the wreckage was caused by diesel oil for the propulsion engines. Most of the negative publicity about hydrogen and the Hindenburg arose to discredit growing Nazi technological superiority and its air transport service. Like gasoline, diesel fuel and any other volatile substance hydrogen must be handled safely. It's handled safely today and will continue to be as its use grows.
9. World peace and hydrogen? As Peak Oil limits the cheap oil supply that powers world prosperity and supports the life styles and lives of the 6.4 billion people on Earth, a new, more Abundant Energy must fill the cheap oil gap or massive poverty, endless wars and social chaos will arise from a competition for remaining cheap oil. At stake is who, what nations, what forms of government and what cultures will get enough oil to survive and prosper during the economic shrinkage caused by a cheap oil shortage. As oil becomes less abundant and much more expensive; then scarcer, geopolitical power shifts from the oil dependent, developed nations and democracies to the oil rich dictators of the Middle East who control over half the world's remaining oil reserves. They have oil staying power and the West does not. A new world order will likely emerge with oil barons and dictators at the top as they supply adequate oil to China and India. (2/3rds the world population.) Rapid development of the most Abundant Energy on Earth can America energy independence, avert this bleak and tumultuous future and make a sustainable prosperity possible.
10. Can we really convert existing engines, make them more efficient and allow operation on hydrogen or traditional oil derived fuel? Yes! There's no magic here. Just sound science, invention and engineering. The technology used simply applies an improved version of the hundred year old technology that makes diesel engines run 20% to 70% more efficiently than gasoline engines to today's modern engines. (Please see definitions of Stratified Charge, Direct Cylinder Injection and Direct cylinder SparkInjection for further information)
11. Undepletable Energy? Referring to solar derived energy and fuels as "undepletable" and fossil and radioactive fuels as "depletable" underscores this essential difference between the two and rightly sets the division point for subsidies and government policy advantages. For instance government benefits should be shared equally between depletable and undepletable energy to create a level playing field that and allows fair competition and truly competitive pricing.