Tomorrow's energy : hydrogen, fuel cells, and the prospects for a cleaner planet / Peter Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffmann, Peter, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fuel.

Hydrogen as fuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How hydrogen--nonpolluting and easy to produce--could become the fuel of the future.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Senator Tom Harkin

Acknowledgments

1. Why Hydrogen? Buckminster Fuller, Sheikh Yamani, and Bill Clinton

2. Hydrogen's Discovery: Phlogiston and Inflammable Air

3. A History of Hydrogen Energy: The Reverend Cecil, Jules Verne, and the Redoubtable Mr. Erren

4. Producing Hydrogen from Water, Natural Gas, and Green Plants

5. Primary Energy: Using Solar and Other Power to Make Hydrogen

6. Hydrogen for Cars and Buses: Steaming Tailpipes

7. Fuel Cells: Mr. Grove's Lovely Technology

8. Hydrogen in Aerospace: Clean Contrails and the Orient Express

9. Hydrogen as Utility Gas: The Invisible Flame

10. Non-Energy Uses of Hydrogen: Metallic H2, Biodegradable Plastics, and H2 Tofu

11. Safety: The Hindenburg Syndrome, or "Don't Paint Your Dirigible with Rocket Fuel"

12. The Next 100 Years.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-10002-5

0-262-27551-1

9786612100024

0-585-44470-6

OCLC:

614508112