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A number of people have asked me to describe the new video about hydrogen. From the side of the tape container: Element One HYDROGEN: Key to the Sustainable Energy Revolution Produced by William Hoagland and Geoffrey Holland Directed and written by Michael Tobias 56 minutes * Ages 13 to adult * 1996 Element One introduces the viewer to major advancements in the use of hydrogen as a non-polluting, practical, inexhaustible, and renewable energy source. This program delivers the most complete and up-to-date review of advanced hydrogen technology available today. It features a colloquium of world class energy experts who review the environmental, political and economic consequences of our continued dependence on fossil fuels. They illustrate the clean and efficient ways of producing hydrogen renewably from the wind and the sun. We see that unlike fossil fuels, which are an increasingly scarce and expensive resource, hydrogen will be available in virtually limitless quantities because it is produced from water. The latest techniques for producing electrical from hydrogen fuel cells are demonstrated in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the United States. The cell, a thermo-chemical device with no moving parts. has been used in the space program for decades. Fuel cells are already being used to power busses, trucks, minivans, and even golf carts. In the coming years it will be used to generate megawatts of electricity to heat homes, and to power cars, trains, and aircraft. In a exciting and convincing fashion, Element One suggests that we are on the threshold of what may be the last great energy revolution on Earth, a revolution that will see pollution-free, sustainably produced hydrogen displacing petroleum as the world’s dominant fuel. Unquote! The video is available from The Video Project 200 Estates Drive Ben Lomond, CA 05005 tel: 800-475-2638 fax: 800-475-2168 Howard H. Smith Palo Alto, CA
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> … >One suggests that we are on the threshold of >what may be the last great energy revolution >on Earth, a revolution that will see pollution-free, >sustainably produced hydrogen displacing >petroleum as the world’s dominant fuel.
May be, but what will we do with all the helium we get from burning the stuff? If we’re not careful we may turn the atmosphere into a big helium balloon which will drift away from the Sun into "outer space" while we all run around trying to keep warm and talking like Donald Duck! Anyhow, they just abandoned the Princeton Big Donut, so hydrogen power looks farther away than ever as a commercially viable technology. Regards, `’ "Morc"
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> … >One suggests that we are on the threshold of >what may be the last great energy revolution >on Earth, a revolution that will see pollution-free, >sustainably produced hydrogen displacing >petroleum as the world’s dominant fuel. >May be, but what will we do with all the helium >we get from burning the stuff? If we’re not >careful we may turn the atmosphere into a big >helium balloon which will drift away from the Sun >into "outer space" while we all run around trying >to keep warm and talking like Donald Duck! >Anyhow, they just abandoned the Princeton Big >Donut, so hydrogen power looks farther away >than ever as a commercially viable technology.
Only if we "burn" it in our home-size "Mr. Fusion" device as seen in "Back to the Future". Me, I’m waiting for the "Mr. Fuel Cell" domestic cogenerator- electricity & heat from one unit with water as the waste product. It’s much closer to practicality than fusion, which, so far as I know, has never reached breakeven in a controlled reaction. >Regards, > `’ "Morc"
Mark Stetz, Energy Engineer Denver, CO Board Member of Colorado Renewable Energy Society
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> Only if we "burn" it in our home-size "Mr. Fusion" device as seen in > "Back to the Future". Me, I’m waiting for the "Mr. Fuel Cell" domestic > cogenerator- electricity & heat from one unit with water as the waste > product. It’s much closer to practicality than fusion, which, so far > as I know, has never reached breakeven in a controlled reaction.
I’ve been involved in fuel cell research for the last 5-6 years and think that it’s great that people outside of the academic community have caught on to this technology. But the question still remains, "Where are you going to get the hydrogen?" Hydrogen is an energy carrier, not a fuel in the sense that it does not occur naturally in a useable form. Ken
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AQUAFUEL – A Newly Patented, Ultra-Clean-Burning, Economical Fuel Technology In the race for buckyballs, Nobel prize winning scientists discovered a third form of carbon – C60 – created by striking an electric arc in a gap between carbon electrodes within a vacuum. This new carbon molecule has fantastic properties and holds tremendous promise for creating great new carbon-based materials and products. Leading scientists and authorities initially scoffed at the discovery and dismissed it as "junk". Beyond buckyballs, a new carbon electrode arc technology is now being used UNDERWATER and with NO ELECTROLYTE to produce ultra-clean-burning, low-cost alternative synthesis gas, or syngas called AquaFuel. This simple method of producing a hydrogen-carbon-oxygen gas holds great promise for energy and chemical production. AquaFuel is being produced in demonstration units and is now undergoing tests in engines and labs. The AquaFuel process appears to mirror image MIT
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