Tomorrow's Energy : Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet.
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- computer
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- 9780262275514
- 665.8/1
- TP359.H8H633 2001
Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Index.
How hydrogen--nonpolluting and easy to produce--could become the fuel of the future.
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