Tomorrow's Energy : Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Why Hydrogen? The Grand Picture -- Chapter 2. Hydrogen's Discovery: Phlogiston and Inflammable Air -- Chapter 3. A History of Hydrogen Energy: The Reverend Cecil, Jules Verne, and the Redoubtable Mr. Erren -- Interest in Hydrogen Picks Up after World War II -- Shifting Attitudes: Growth, Some Disillusionment -- Encouraging Signs at the Turn of the Century -- Timeline: International Activities since the Late 1980s -- Chapter 4. Producing Hydrogen from Water, Natural Gas, and Green Plants -- Early Examples: Electrolysis in the Desert -- Hydrogen Production: Count the Ways -- The Holy Grail: Extracting Hydrogen from Water -- Electrolyzers -- Splitting Steam -- Thermochemical Water Splitting -- Producing Hydrogen from Fossil Fuels and by Other Means -- Chapter 5. Primary Energy: Using Solar and Other Power to Make Hydrogen -- Explaining the Solar-Hydrogen Link -- Primary Renewable Sources -- Uncommon Sources -- Chapter 6. Terra Transport: Hydrogen for Cars, Buses, Bikes, and Boats -- Fuel Cells at Sea, and Below -- Fuel Cell Two- and Three-Wheelers -- Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure: The Chicken-and-Egg Issue -- A Key Issue: How to Store Hydrogen on a Vehicle -- Methanol -- The Early Years -- Buses -- Small Specialty Vehicles -- Internal Combustion, Liquid Hydrogen, Electrification, and the Long Haul -- Chapter 7. Fuel Cells: Mr. Grove's Lovely Technology -- The Early Days: Dr. Kordesch's Austin and GM's Electrovan -- A History of Fuel Cells -- Francis Bacon's Contributions -- Utilities and Fuel Cell Power Plants -- How Fuel Cells Work -- Chapter 8. Clean Contrails: The Orient Express, Phantom Eye, and LAPCAT -- Big Hopes-Dashed -- New Hope? The Green Freighter Study -- Flying into Space: Hydrogen Aerospace Planes.

Chapter 9. Hydrogen as Utility Gas: Hydricity, and the Invisible Flame -- Ruhr Revival -- Chapter 10. Nonenergy Uses of Hydrogen: Metallic H2, Biodegradable Plastics, and H2 Tofu -- A Hydrogen Space Gun -- Hydrogen for Clean Steel Production -- Atomic, Solid and Metallic Hydrogen -- Hyperbaric Hydrogen to Fight Cancer -- Is Intelligent Life Out There? The Cosmic Waterhole -- Chapter 11. Safety: The Hindenburg Syndrome, or "Don't Paint Your Dirigible with Rocket Fuel" -- Global Safety Research -- The Hydrogen Syndrome -- The Hindenburg: A Cellulose Fire, Flavored with Hydrogen -- Testing Hydrogen for Safety -- Hydrogen's Properties -- Postscript -- Chapter 12. The Next Fifty Years -- 2010: Uncertain U.S. Prospects -- 1990s: High Hopes -- 1970s: A Long-Term Evolution -- 1997: The President's Advisers: Do More in Hydrogen -- New Post-2000 Voices: Rifkin, Burns, Hofmeister -- Notes -- Index.

How the use of nonpolluting, zero-emission hydrogen as fuel could be the cornerstone of a new energy economy.

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