We Need Hydrogen Fuel Now
We live in a world of a fuel paradox.
The current fuel crisis seams too many people as a type of paradox. Most people are more than willing to use clean fuels such as hydrogen, provided that the cost is less than what they are paying for gasoline, but the infrastructure hasn’t been constructed for a hydrogen society. While many people are still wondering which came first the chicken or the egg, the fact is that the average family is having problems buying either. The same holds true for hydrogen. Why? Because of the rising cost of fuel and the decrease in the value of the dollar that has increased the cost of everyday items including food. Lets face it the average consumer has little to no say on energy issues in this country and congress has taken little to no actions since the 1970s to provide a reduction in the use of foreign oil or in the use of alternative fuels such as hydrogen. This brings us to the paradox, which will come first, hydrogen burning vehicles or the distribution systems. It is clear that by burning hydrogen in our current vehicles the dependence for foreign oil would be greatly reduced if not be eliminated at some point in time. Hydrogen is a renewable natural resource that would be created at home with no limit on the amount that could be made, and would most likely decrease in cost as more and more hydrogen producing processes are brought online. Burning hydrogen is also the next logical step to fuel cell vehicles.
So why can’t we just go to the corner service station and fill up? If you talk to the independent service station owner they will tell you that they are only making pennies on the gallon of gas and diesel. It is true that a new oil refinery has been built in this country for several years, and big oil has told congress that the billions in profit was going back as an investment in the company (actually buying back their own stock which only helps them). Have you ever driven by a refinery and seen the blue flame burning on one of the stacks? In many cases this blue flame is hydrogen and other gases that are considered waste gases from the process of refining oil into gasoline. Presently, the most common method of producing hydrogen is by stripping it from the gasoline refining process and the reason the refineries burn it off is because there simply isn’t a market for it. It is cheaper for them to burn off this fuel rather than save it for distribution, what a waste. It is also true that it takes energy to convert fuel into a usable form. This has been the major argument against hydrogen in the past. The argument being that it would cost more to make hydrogen than it cost to make gasoline or other fuels. True if you only consider the production of hydrogen from carbon bases elements such as oil and coal. Let’s explore other less dependent methods for the production of hydrogen.
What are some of the non carbon based hydrogen generation processes?
Are there currently available methods to produce hydrogen from on carbon based processes? Simply put, yes. I have provided a short list of articles and companies that do just that, and they are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy
http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-production/hydrogen-generator-for-on-demand-use/
http://www.hydrogenics.com/
http://www.ballard.com/
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/hydrogen_clean_fuels/index.html
http://www.rmi.org/images/other/Energy/E03-05_20HydrogenMyths.pdf
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Transportation/T99-07_StrategyH2Trans.pdf
Do we have the technology to burn hydrogen in our existing vehicles?
Yes we gave have the technology. Some of the greatest engineering mind from all over the world including many in America are at work and have been at work designing and perfecting the hydrogen burning combustion engine. BMW may very well be the leader in hydrogen burning combustion engines. BMW, Ford, Boeing, and General Motors have spent a great deal of research money toward perfecting the hydrogen combustion engine. Converting your existing combustion engine to burn hydrogen would be a logical step and would help promote the use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle scheduled to for ten to twenty years from now. Converting most late model cars to burn hydrogen would only require changing the fuel injector, minor adjustment to the computer brain, and changing the fuel tank and fuel lines. There are several advantages to converting to hydrogen for combustion engines some are as follows:
1) Eliminates the need for smog equipment thereby increasing the horsepower output of the engine to the wheels of the vehicle.
2) The cost of gasoline is most likely will only increase as the supply diminishes. While the cost of hydrogen should decrease as the supply increases due to an increase in production processes and better storage systems are created.
3) Engine performance will increase with technology.
4) We can keep our muscle cars
5) Once the storage problems are solved the distance that a typical vehicle can travel will be greatly increased improving cross country travel for trucks and heavy equipment.
http://www.sae.org/automag/techbriefs/04-2002/page3.htm
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=18794
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q4/071024b_nr.html
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=23844
http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/hydrogen/h2r_racer.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaW1uIipXeA
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bmw-h2r.htm
http://www.hydrogennow.org/HNews/PressReleases/GM/GM-H2H-SUT.htm
Who controls the distribution of fuel?
Not the people that is for sure. The hydrogen that we use today is created or stripped from oil during the refining process; therefore the large oil company will control the distribution until other alternative processes are brought online. There is still a cost in energy to make energy. We can not escape the laws of physics. However, as newer processes are introduced the amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen will greatly decrease. Hydrolois is a process where an electrical current is used to separate hydrogen from oxygen molecules. The energy cost is in the generation of electricity. Alternative energy sources such as wind and solar can greatly decrease this initial energy cost and greatly increases the possibilities of who may produce hydrogen. There are companies that will allow you to generate hydrogen in your own home. Hydrogen can be produced from natural gas and there are systems presently available that will allow you to produce hydrogen in you own garage. For now and the relatively near future you will still be required to purchase your hydrogen that was produced in the refining process, but as technology and regulations progress production of hydrogen not only for your vehicle but also for you home is a real possibility.
http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/proj_production_delivery.html
http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-production/new-hydrogen-production-methods-worth-noting/
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~vurade/PEC%20Generation%20of%20Hydrogen/Methods%20fo%20hydrogen%20production%20from%20solar%20energy.htm
http://www.stardrivedevice.com/electrolysis.html
http://www.hydrogenhighway.ca.gov/facts/production_envt.pdf
http://www.freshpatents.com/Hydrogen-production-method-dt20051124ptan20050257426.php
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/Fetter/students/Brinkman.pdf
http://www.hydrogenhighway.com/hhcars.htm
Should the government support renewable technology for business and private citizens?
Starting in 2003, the Bush administration budgeted 1.2 billion dollars over five years for hydrogen research a renewable and unlimited source of energy. The president also stated that he wanted the first fuel cell vehicle to be American. The president also pledged 2 billion for clean coal a limited resource. A link to the Department of Energy’s budget is provided below for your review and for you to make your own conclusions. Regardless of how we feel about the government supporting renewable energy the fact is that the government is in the energy business, however I would prefer to see more money spent on alternative that do not have twenty to fifty years waiting periods. Hydrogen and hydrogen generation process are here now, and we should be focusing on the here and now with open eyes to the future.
If we look at the predicted energy budgets for China, India and the United States we see that the greatest amount of energy is expected from coal. Coal is a limited resource and is only a band aid approach to solving the world’s energy needs. If we also look at the amount of renewable energy budget (link provided below) for each of these countries we find that both China and India are planning a lesser share of their budget to renewable energy than the U.S. This fact could very well impact the environmental quality of the earth and add to supply and demand pressures on the U.S. We also have to put the budgets into prospective since China and India both have much greater population the percentages represent a much greater demand than that of the U.S.
http://www.energy.gov/energysources/hydrogen.htm
http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/
http://www.energy.gov/about/budget.htm
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/cleancoal/
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/WEAP2/Energy_Intensity_GDP_2050.html
Market Forces?
After the Carter administration the economist convinced congress and most of America that the price of oil should be controlled by Market Forces (supply and demand), after all we are a capitalist nation and the stock market controls most of our lives. For the most part this strategy allowed big business and the top twenty percent of the population to control the price of oil and other necessary commodities. These strategies lead to a steady increase in the import of foreign oil. We are now importing about seventy percent of our energy needs. During this time the price of oil stayed relatively low or about half that of Europe. With the down turn in the investment opportunities in this country in 2007, investors went looking for other opportunities, after all that is what they do and that is how the market works. As of today we now have the investors controlling the price of energy not only in this country but all over the world. When ask if you would increase production the Saudis first stated that the market to control supply and demand. After about a year the Saudis made the statement that they would increase production by two percent. Why only two percent? According to T.Boone Pickens that is all that they are capable of producing (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-07-08-t-boone-pickens-plan-wind-energy_N.htm?csp=34). For those of you who don’t know who Mr. Pickens is lets just say that he is a conservative that is now a realist. Mr. Pickens is investing his own money in wind farms in Texas. Do you think that he knows something that we don’t? Mr. Pickens points out that one of the main problems that we have in this country is the lack of leadership. I couldn’t agree more. Everyone knew that the day was coming to pay for the low energy prices we have been enjoying since the 1970s.
I think that congress was too busy enjoying the tax revenue from oil that they lost sight that the supply is limited. Many congressional have made a career out energy issues and so have the lobbyist. Now it will be the working class and small business that will pay the price for congresses ignorance.
How can you help in using hydrogen and other alternative systems in your home and business?
The first step that all of us must do is to become much more proactive. Our jobs and families depend on it. I have provided the link for both the senate and the house of representative. Find the congress person and senator in your area and let them know that the American people demand that alternative energy sources much be a much larger section of the energy budget. Alternative energy (wind, solar, and hydrogen) should make up twenty-five percent of the budget by 2025 and fifty percent by 2050.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
http://energy.senate.gov/public/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/house/energy/index.html
Use these links to contact your congress person and senator. You can use the last two links to direct you comment directly to the congressional energy committees in both the house and the senate.
The benefits of using alternative energy sources are well documented. Not only will we benefit from the lower energy cost, job creation, cleaner environment, we will also become self sufficient for our energy needs and that translates into a more secure world.
There are energy generation systems that can use solar energy to convert water into hydrogen. The current systems do not produce a great deal of hydrogen or very pure hydrogen, but they do create enough to support a small home. I don’t have the number to support this but imagine if these systems produced twenty percent of the home or small business needs and were used on twenty percent of the nation’s homes and small buildings. How many barrels of oil would that replace and how much cleaner would that make the air, not to mention how much money each home owner would be saving? Now include the amount of energy saved by plugging in your electric or hybrid vehicles at night. The production of home energy for now is tax free and many utilities pay you back for energy produce from alternative sources.
http://www.hydrogensolar.com/
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/h2homesystem.pdf
http://www.solartoday.org/2004/may_june04/h2_afford_it.htm
http://www.homepower.com/files/h2homesystem.pdf
http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/hydrogen/basics/production-solar.htm
How do we solve this fuel paradox?
The government will need to work with the people and industry to provide tax incentives, low interest loans and legislation. First and foremost the people need to make congress aware that energy is our number one issue during this election year. We must make congress listen to the people and not the self interest big energy lobbyist. Tax credits of greater that $250 for home owners for upgrading their home will have to be increase. The tax credit should be a percentage of the total amount spent and a greater amount for materials and products constructed in the U.S... Tax credits to small business will have to be increased so that businesses may use less energy. Congress should provide home owners and small business low interest loans to provide for installation of alternative energy process such as solar panels, hydrogen generators, and wind generators on a need basis. Congress should increase the research budget to include all universities and start national competitions between universities for alternative energy design. The infrastructure for distribution of hydrogen and alternative energy sources will have to constructed at the same time that manufacturer are mass producing the hydrogen fuel and alternative energy generators such as wind and solar. Congress must work with both small and large corporations to encourage the use of alternative energy sources; for example government contractors must provide proof that the energy they are using for government projects are provided by alternative sources. The states also have a major role to play. It will be necessary to pass state and local legislation that allow for the use of alternative energy sources. There are some local communities that have banned wind generators or the use of solar panels on roof tops.
New technology such as Infra Red Photovoltaic Cells (IR Solar Cell), and LED light will shortly revolutionize the energy industry.
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/mar/tech/jp_solarcells.html
IR Solar cells are much more efficient and produce electricity at about .07 cents/kW/hr far less than the conventional UV solar cells. Couple that with LED lighting which uses much as forty percent less energy and last as long as 4800 hours. LED light also burn as much as 500 percent brighter and have no mercury or hazardous waste.
http://www.ledhomeplace.com/ Now we are on our way to a much cleaner and less expensive and environmentally friendly alternative energy economy. Vice President Gore has challenged the American people and businesses to construct the infrastructure so that we will be able to supply 100% of our electrical energy needs within ten years. It is possible.
We are all in this together.
The current fuel crisis seams too many people as a type of paradox. Most people are more than willing to use clean fuels such as hydrogen, provided that the cost is less than what they are paying for gasoline, but the infrastructure hasn’t been constructed for a hydrogen society. While many people are still wondering which came first the chicken or the egg, the fact is that the average family is having problems buying either. The same holds true for hydrogen. Why? Because of the rising cost of fuel and the decrease in the value of the dollar that has increased the cost of everyday items including food. Lets face it the average consumer has little to no say on energy issues in this country and congress has taken little to no actions since the 1970s to provide a reduction in the use of foreign oil or in the use of alternative fuels such as hydrogen. This brings us to the paradox, which will come first, hydrogen burning vehicles or the distribution systems. It is clear that by burning hydrogen in our current vehicles the dependence for foreign oil would be greatly reduced if not be eliminated at some point in time. Hydrogen is a renewable natural resource that would be created at home with no limit on the amount that could be made, and would most likely decrease in cost as more and more hydrogen producing processes are brought online. Burning hydrogen is also the next logical step to fuel cell vehicles.
So why can’t we just go to the corner service station and fill up? If you talk to the independent service station owner they will tell you that they are only making pennies on the gallon of gas and diesel. It is true that a new oil refinery has been built in this country for several years, and big oil has told congress that the billions in profit was going back as an investment in the company (actually buying back their own stock which only helps them). Have you ever driven by a refinery and seen the blue flame burning on one of the stacks? In many cases this blue flame is hydrogen and other gases that are considered waste gases from the process of refining oil into gasoline. Presently, the most common method of producing hydrogen is by stripping it from the gasoline refining process and the reason the refineries burn it off is because there simply isn’t a market for it. It is cheaper for them to burn off this fuel rather than save it for distribution, what a waste. It is also true that it takes energy to convert fuel into a usable form. This has been the major argument against hydrogen in the past. The argument being that it would cost more to make hydrogen than it cost to make gasoline or other fuels. True if you only consider the production of hydrogen from carbon bases elements such as oil and coal. Let’s explore other less dependent methods for the production of hydrogen.
What are some of the non carbon based hydrogen generation processes?
Are there currently available methods to produce hydrogen from on carbon based processes? Simply put, yes. I have provided a short list of articles and companies that do just that, and they are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy
http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-production/hydrogen-generator-for-on-demand-use/
http://www.hydrogenics.com/
http://www.ballard.com/
http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/hydrogen_clean_fuels/index.html
http://www.rmi.org/images/other/Energy/E03-05_20HydrogenMyths.pdf
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Transportation/T99-07_StrategyH2Trans.pdf
Do we have the technology to burn hydrogen in our existing vehicles?
Yes we gave have the technology. Some of the greatest engineering mind from all over the world including many in America are at work and have been at work designing and perfecting the hydrogen burning combustion engine. BMW may very well be the leader in hydrogen burning combustion engines. BMW, Ford, Boeing, and General Motors have spent a great deal of research money toward perfecting the hydrogen combustion engine. Converting your existing combustion engine to burn hydrogen would be a logical step and would help promote the use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle scheduled to for ten to twenty years from now. Converting most late model cars to burn hydrogen would only require changing the fuel injector, minor adjustment to the computer brain, and changing the fuel tank and fuel lines. There are several advantages to converting to hydrogen for combustion engines some are as follows:
1) Eliminates the need for smog equipment thereby increasing the horsepower output of the engine to the wheels of the vehicle.
2) The cost of gasoline is most likely will only increase as the supply diminishes. While the cost of hydrogen should decrease as the supply increases due to an increase in production processes and better storage systems are created.
3) Engine performance will increase with technology.
4) We can keep our muscle cars
5) Once the storage problems are solved the distance that a typical vehicle can travel will be greatly increased improving cross country travel for trucks and heavy equipment.
http://www.sae.org/automag/techbriefs/04-2002/page3.htm
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/feature_display.cfm?release=18794
http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2007/q4/071024b_nr.html
http://media.ford.com/newsroom/release_display.cfm?release=23844
http://www.usautoparts.net/bmw/hydrogen/h2r_racer.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaW1uIipXeA
http://www.howstuffworks.com/bmw-h2r.htm
http://www.hydrogennow.org/HNews/PressReleases/GM/GM-H2H-SUT.htm
Who controls the distribution of fuel?
Not the people that is for sure. The hydrogen that we use today is created or stripped from oil during the refining process; therefore the large oil company will control the distribution until other alternative processes are brought online. There is still a cost in energy to make energy. We can not escape the laws of physics. However, as newer processes are introduced the amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen will greatly decrease. Hydrolois is a process where an electrical current is used to separate hydrogen from oxygen molecules. The energy cost is in the generation of electricity. Alternative energy sources such as wind and solar can greatly decrease this initial energy cost and greatly increases the possibilities of who may produce hydrogen. There are companies that will allow you to generate hydrogen in your own home. Hydrogen can be produced from natural gas and there are systems presently available that will allow you to produce hydrogen in you own garage. For now and the relatively near future you will still be required to purchase your hydrogen that was produced in the refining process, but as technology and regulations progress production of hydrogen not only for your vehicle but also for you home is a real possibility.
http://www.nrel.gov/hydrogen/proj_production_delivery.html
http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/blog2/index.php/hydrogen-production/new-hydrogen-production-methods-worth-noting/
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~vurade/PEC%20Generation%20of%20Hydrogen/Methods%20fo%20hydrogen%20production%20from%20solar%20energy.htm
http://www.stardrivedevice.com/electrolysis.html
http://www.hydrogenhighway.ca.gov/facts/production_envt.pdf
http://www.freshpatents.com/Hydrogen-production-method-dt20051124ptan20050257426.php
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/Fetter/students/Brinkman.pdf
http://www.hydrogenhighway.com/hhcars.htm
Should the government support renewable technology for business and private citizens?
Starting in 2003, the Bush administration budgeted 1.2 billion dollars over five years for hydrogen research a renewable and unlimited source of energy. The president also stated that he wanted the first fuel cell vehicle to be American. The president also pledged 2 billion for clean coal a limited resource. A link to the Department of Energy’s budget is provided below for your review and for you to make your own conclusions. Regardless of how we feel about the government supporting renewable energy the fact is that the government is in the energy business, however I would prefer to see more money spent on alternative that do not have twenty to fifty years waiting periods. Hydrogen and hydrogen generation process are here now, and we should be focusing on the here and now with open eyes to the future.
If we look at the predicted energy budgets for China, India and the United States we see that the greatest amount of energy is expected from coal. Coal is a limited resource and is only a band aid approach to solving the world’s energy needs. If we also look at the amount of renewable energy budget (link provided below) for each of these countries we find that both China and India are planning a lesser share of their budget to renewable energy than the U.S. This fact could very well impact the environmental quality of the earth and add to supply and demand pressures on the U.S. We also have to put the budgets into prospective since China and India both have much greater population the percentages represent a much greater demand than that of the U.S.
http://www.energy.gov/energysources/hydrogen.htm
http://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/
http://www.energy.gov/about/budget.htm
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/cleancoal/
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/WEAP2/Energy_Intensity_GDP_2050.html
Market Forces?
After the Carter administration the economist convinced congress and most of America that the price of oil should be controlled by Market Forces (supply and demand), after all we are a capitalist nation and the stock market controls most of our lives. For the most part this strategy allowed big business and the top twenty percent of the population to control the price of oil and other necessary commodities. These strategies lead to a steady increase in the import of foreign oil. We are now importing about seventy percent of our energy needs. During this time the price of oil stayed relatively low or about half that of Europe. With the down turn in the investment opportunities in this country in 2007, investors went looking for other opportunities, after all that is what they do and that is how the market works. As of today we now have the investors controlling the price of energy not only in this country but all over the world. When ask if you would increase production the Saudis first stated that the market to control supply and demand. After about a year the Saudis made the statement that they would increase production by two percent. Why only two percent? According to T.Boone Pickens that is all that they are capable of producing (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2008-07-08-t-boone-pickens-plan-wind-energy_N.htm?csp=34). For those of you who don’t know who Mr. Pickens is lets just say that he is a conservative that is now a realist. Mr. Pickens is investing his own money in wind farms in Texas. Do you think that he knows something that we don’t? Mr. Pickens points out that one of the main problems that we have in this country is the lack of leadership. I couldn’t agree more. Everyone knew that the day was coming to pay for the low energy prices we have been enjoying since the 1970s.
I think that congress was too busy enjoying the tax revenue from oil that they lost sight that the supply is limited. Many congressional have made a career out energy issues and so have the lobbyist. Now it will be the working class and small business that will pay the price for congresses ignorance.
How can you help in using hydrogen and other alternative systems in your home and business?
The first step that all of us must do is to become much more proactive. Our jobs and families depend on it. I have provided the link for both the senate and the house of representative. Find the congress person and senator in your area and let them know that the American people demand that alternative energy sources much be a much larger section of the energy budget. Alternative energy (wind, solar, and hydrogen) should make up twenty-five percent of the budget by 2025 and fifty percent by 2050.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
http://energy.senate.gov/public/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/house/energy/index.html
Use these links to contact your congress person and senator. You can use the last two links to direct you comment directly to the congressional energy committees in both the house and the senate.
The benefits of using alternative energy sources are well documented. Not only will we benefit from the lower energy cost, job creation, cleaner environment, we will also become self sufficient for our energy needs and that translates into a more secure world.
There are energy generation systems that can use solar energy to convert water into hydrogen. The current systems do not produce a great deal of hydrogen or very pure hydrogen, but they do create enough to support a small home. I don’t have the number to support this but imagine if these systems produced twenty percent of the home or small business needs and were used on twenty percent of the nation’s homes and small buildings. How many barrels of oil would that replace and how much cleaner would that make the air, not to mention how much money each home owner would be saving? Now include the amount of energy saved by plugging in your electric or hybrid vehicles at night. The production of home energy for now is tax free and many utilities pay you back for energy produce from alternative sources.
http://www.hydrogensolar.com/
http://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/h2homesystem.pdf
http://www.solartoday.org/2004/may_june04/h2_afford_it.htm
http://www.homepower.com/files/h2homesystem.pdf
http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/hydrogen/basics/production-solar.htm
How do we solve this fuel paradox?
The government will need to work with the people and industry to provide tax incentives, low interest loans and legislation. First and foremost the people need to make congress aware that energy is our number one issue during this election year. We must make congress listen to the people and not the self interest big energy lobbyist. Tax credits of greater that $250 for home owners for upgrading their home will have to be increase. The tax credit should be a percentage of the total amount spent and a greater amount for materials and products constructed in the U.S... Tax credits to small business will have to be increased so that businesses may use less energy. Congress should provide home owners and small business low interest loans to provide for installation of alternative energy process such as solar panels, hydrogen generators, and wind generators on a need basis. Congress should increase the research budget to include all universities and start national competitions between universities for alternative energy design. The infrastructure for distribution of hydrogen and alternative energy sources will have to constructed at the same time that manufacturer are mass producing the hydrogen fuel and alternative energy generators such as wind and solar. Congress must work with both small and large corporations to encourage the use of alternative energy sources; for example government contractors must provide proof that the energy they are using for government projects are provided by alternative sources. The states also have a major role to play. It will be necessary to pass state and local legislation that allow for the use of alternative energy sources. There are some local communities that have banned wind generators or the use of solar panels on roof tops.
New technology such as Infra Red Photovoltaic Cells (IR Solar Cell), and LED light will shortly revolutionize the energy industry.
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/mar/tech/jp_solarcells.html
IR Solar cells are much more efficient and produce electricity at about .07 cents/kW/hr far less than the conventional UV solar cells. Couple that with LED lighting which uses much as forty percent less energy and last as long as 4800 hours. LED light also burn as much as 500 percent brighter and have no mercury or hazardous waste.
http://www.ledhomeplace.com/ Now we are on our way to a much cleaner and less expensive and environmentally friendly alternative energy economy. Vice President Gore has challenged the American people and businesses to construct the infrastructure so that we will be able to supply 100% of our electrical energy needs within ten years. It is possible.
We are all in this together.
So why are you waiting?
You have to answer this question yourself. Or you can just complain the next time you have to put gas in your car or pay for an airline ticket, pay for groceries, or plan your vacation or any other activity that requires energy. Actions speak louder than words.
We Need Hydrogen Fuel Now
