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This library page holds a collection of hydrogen energy resources.
But please do NOT call Hydrogen a fuel. Hydrogen is only an energy
transport media. It is incapable of delivering net on-the-books BTU's
of energy. Just as with a flywheel or lead acid, you'll first have to fill
hydrogen with energy before you can empty it.
Naturally, no non-nuclear means is known to make terrestrial hydrogen
that does not consume considerably more energy than it delivers. Thus,
terrestrial hydrogen is a "pollution amplifier" that INCREASES the
pollution of the underlying fundamental energy source.
It is utterly ludicrous to claim that terrestrial hydrogen is in any way,
shape, or form "nonpolluting".
Note that commercial hydrogen is nearly always produced through the
reformation of methane. But the methane really has to want to reform.
Please also note that because of the staggering loss of exergy, use of
electrolysis for bulk hydrogen apps is a really, really dumb thing to do.
It is the equivalent of exchanging two US dollars for one Mexican peso.
Please also note that there is more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline
than there is in a gallon of liquid hydrogen.
Even after all these years, hydrogen is still number one on the charts.
Here are the arguments against the hydrogen economy:
1. Terrestral hydrogen is ONLY an energy
carrier or transfer media and NOT a
substance capable of delivering net NEW
BTU's to the on-the-books economy.
2. Terrestral hydrogen creation is inefficient
as considerably more energy of usually
much higher quality has to be input than
is eventually returnable.
3. No large terrestral source of hydrogen gas
is known. Water, of course, is a hydrogen
sink and, by fundamental chemical energitics,
is the worst possible feedstock.
4. The CONTAINED energy density of terrestral
hydrogen by weight is a lot LESS than gasoline.
And drops dramatically as the tank is emptied.
The energy density of hydrogen gas by volume
is a ludicrous joke.
5. Virtually all bulk hydrogen is produced by methane
reformation. And thus is EXTREMELY hydrocarbon
dependent.
6. Hydrogen has one of the widest explosive ranges known,
the least spark energy required for ignition, and
has no known colorants or odorants. Its flame is
often invisible or nearly so.
7. There is more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline
than there is in a gallon of liquid hydrogen.
8. No effective vehicle compatible means of hydrogen
storage is known that is remotely as cheap, safe,
dense, and convenient as carbon bonded hydrides.
9. No infrastructure exists for gaseous hydrogen
distribution. Pipelines in particular raise major
density and embrittlement issues.
10. Electrolysis from high value sources such as
grid, wind, or pv is totally useless as a hydrogen
source because of the staggering loss of exergy.
There ALWAYS will be more intelligent things
to do with the electricity.
11. Improper burning of hydrogen produces highly
polluting nitrous oxides.
12. Terrestrial hydrogen is basically a POLLUTION
AMPLIFIER that INCREASES the pollution of
its underlying sources. It is utterly ludicrous to
claim that hydrogen is in any manner, way,
shape, or form "nonpolluting".
13. Hydrogen rots most metals through embrittlement.
14. "Carbon Neutral" solutions would appear better
than "Carbon Free" because (A) A significant
measure of the energy of most fuels is in its carbon
fraction, (B) Carbon appears to be essential for
convenient and safe room temperature liquids,
and (C) Reformation is not required or else
is simpler, cheaper, and wastes less energy.
15. An optimal hydrogen storage solution exists by
carbon bonding as in heptane or iso-octane. Both
of these room temperature liquids ain't broke.
Most library files require an Adobe Acrobat 4.0 plug in for online
viewing. Offline, these may be accessed by an Acrobat Reader or
an eBook Reader or any other .PDF accepting program.
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Blatant Opportunist #71 ENERGFUN.PDF Some energy fundamentals.. Work, power, & energy. Sources, carriers, sinks. Energy density. Thermodynamics. Efficiency. Exergy. Hydrogen realities. Electrolysis fantasies, Photovoltaics, more. |
Click for a third party Exergy Tutorial.
Click for Wikipedias Exergy Fundamentals.
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Tech Musings #153 MUSE153.PDF (September 2001) Bouncy brick secrets. Privatizing mil surplus. Bogus water powered cars. Fundamentals of electrolysis. Reducing table lookup sizes. Quadratic interpolation. Bounty hunting patents for $$$$. |
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Resource Bin #88 RESBN88.PDF (may 1999) A look at hydrogen resources. Just the facts. Energy carriers. Fallacies and frauds. Periodical charts. NASA safety site. Peavey, Pyle, Sandforth. Journals. RMI. The web. Some real opportunities. |
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Tech Musings #151 MUSE151.PDF (july 2001) Radio Shack Wireless Humidity Data Format. Exergy and energy quality. JavaScript Bouncy Buttons. Chebycheff polynomonials. Fluxgate & magnetometry books. Plastics suppliers. More... |
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Tech Musings #153 MUSE153.PDF september 2001) Bouncy brick secrets. Privatizing mil surplus. Bogus water powered cars.Reducing table lookup sizes. Fundamentals of electrolysis. Quadratic interpolation. Bounty hunting patents for $$$$. |
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Tech Musings #115 MUSE115.PDF (august 1997) PIC chips now on CD ROM. Hydrogen car fact and fancy. A brand new, PIC friendly genlocking tv typewriter! Fuel cells and related resouces. Decade's BOB-5L design contest. |
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Tech Musings #120 MUSE120.PDF (january 1998) NewTek's new PIC Calibar tv generator, investigating Brown's Gas, television broadcast magazines, understanding meta studies comparing energy densities, plastic injection molding book, more. |
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Tech Musings #152 MUSE152.PDF (august 2001) Fundamentals of power and energy. 52 LED's from one port! Shuffling alogrithms and pitfalls. Multi-banner auto rotator. Thermodynamic Books. Heath and Tektronix access. |
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Tech Musings #132 MUSE132.PDF (january 1999)
A remote control for your cat! Creating log & semilog graphs. Some Tesla Book References. Hydrogen absurdities exposed. Making Visual luminosity measurements. Build your own microprocessor. |
Click here for energy efficient Magic Sinewaves.
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Tech Musings #148 MUSE148.PDF (may 2000) Algae hydrogen source. Applying Taylor Series. Surplus and auction update. Lithium polymer batteries. Understanding nonlinearity. Some Battery books. Cave radio site, Maxim chargers, more... |
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Tech Musings #146 MUSE146.PDF (march 2000) Myths involving pulse electrolysis. Contactless charger update. Extracting Acrobat PDF url's. Versatile capacitor switching circuits. Electrochemical books, journals, and websites, more... |
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Tech Musings #141 MUSE141.PDF (october 1999) Secrets of sub-pixel resolution improvement. Diode rf switches and attenuators. Anti-aliasing and grayscaling. Possible hydrogen storage breaktrhough. Some ultrasonic books. Hydrogen car fallacies. |
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Tech Musings #150 MUSE150.PDF (july 2000) Some RFID resources. PostScript trig functions Hydrogen scams and fiascos. Steplocked Magic Sinewaves. Are VMPSK/2 and AAPSK bogus? Industrial wax sources. |
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Tech Musings #149 MUSE149.PDF (june 2000) Where to get parts. Acrobat web searches. New touch screen chip. Reformation free fuel cells. PostScript proc diversion. Secretsof transmission line transformers. NDT resources More... |
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Resources from the American Hydrogen Association A non-profit organization of individuals and institutions dedicated to the advancement of hydrogen energy systems. |
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Battery Info: Battery Power Products & Technology. Industrial trade journal covering sources for the latest developments in batteries, fuel cells, and related items.. |
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2004 DOE Emergency Response Guidebook. Do not even think of researching hydeogen without owning a personal copy of the hazmat "Orange Book" |
Click here for the free Downloadable Version.
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Energy Web Directory California Energy Commission. A great links to links site with hundreds of alphabetized entries. Primarily directed at alternate fuel vehicles. |
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Energy Losses in the Hydrogen Economy Tutorial. Outstanding energy analysis paper shows all of the hidden losses that guarantee the Hydrogen Economy ain't gonna happen. |
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Exergy Tutorial from University of Waterloo. Superb Mark Simpson and James Kay paper reviews exergy, and the second law. Verifies the utter futility of electrolysis. |
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Exergy Intro from Wikipedia. Fundamental definition of exergy as the thermodynamically irreversibly recoverable energy fraction. Sets energy quality. |
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The hydrogen Hoax from Robert Zubrin. Yet another superb tutorial showing exactly why the hydrogen economy flat out ain't gonna happen. |
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Hydrogen Stats from Chemical News & Intelligence. A listing of which suppliers are producing what quantities of liquid and gaseous hydrogen. Includes demand projections. |
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Leading energy publisher Elsevier. The world's largest publisher of energy related scientific peer reviewed publications. Most are quite expensive. |
Elsevier's many pubs include...
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Howard Hayden's Energy Advocate. Monthly newsletter promoting energy and technology. Includes free Energy Fact of the Week archive. |
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Electric Power Research Institute EPRI. Research consortium of electric utilities has all sorts of resources on hydrogen, traditional, and alternate energy. |
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Electric vehicle info from from EV World. A Self-proclaimed future in motion site with superb links to electric cars and alternate vehicle technology. News and stories, too. |
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Industrial trade journal e-Drive. For "buyers, specifiers, and integators of electric motors, drives, and electric drive systems. |
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Breakthrough Technologies Institute Fuel Cells 2000. Provides info to policy makers and the public supporting the early utilization of fuel cells. Education, training, and support.. |
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Fuel Cell Supplier Fuel Cell Store. Offers a wide variety of educational and developmental fuel cells, along with educational support materials. |
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US Department of Energy Fuel Cell Handbook Free online PDF file of the 352 page fifth edition of a highly useful fuel cell technical reference. By EG&G Services. |
Click here for more Hydrogen book info.
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Employment links from Green Energy Jobs. A Lists job opportunieis in covering hydrogen, solar, wave, tidal, and hydro alternate energy industries. |
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Richard and Karen Perez's Home Power Magazine. Foremost "them that's doin" real world magazine on solar energy, hydrogen, electric cars, energy conservation, alternate lifestyles. |
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Developments from the Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Letter. Said to be the voice of the international hydrogen and fuel cell communities. Mostly news -oriented announcements and analysis. |
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Useful Safety Links from Hydrogen Safety Report. Has a dozen links to leading safety organizations involved in one way or another with hydrogen safety. By National Hydrogen Assn. |
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U S Department of Energy Hydrogen Infonet. Has an Infonet Quick Guide to lead you to many hydrogen energy resources. Includes a reading room, learning center and news. |
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International Journal of Hydrogen Energy at Elsevier. Pricey ($1470 per year) journal seems to be the definitive source for peer reviewed papers on hydrogen generation and storage. |
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Crucial Hydrogen Safety Info from NASA Absolutely essential info on safe handling and use of hydrogen. Shows explosive and combustive ranges, handling, more. |
Here is a shorter NASA hydrogen safety site.
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Major Advocacy Group National Hydrogen Association Publishes the NHA Advocate and info on safe handling of hydrogen. Includes useful links. |
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From the Feds: National Renewable Energy Lab Clearing house that promotes renewables science and technology. Various publications, links, tutorials, and journals. |
Here is a NREL Hydrogen Energy Economics paper.
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Abstracts and papers from Nature Magazine. Leading International scientific journal occasionally has definitive papers on hydrogen and related technology. |
Click here for an Electrolysis Fundamentals tutorial.
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Papers and Abstracts from pubsci.osti.gov A Department of Energy service that gives you free access to many technical and scientific papers and abstracts. |
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An online Delphion (was IBM) Patent Repository Studying patents is almost always an utterly mind-rotting waste of time. Site offers instant patent searches and full text downloads. |
Click here for Patent avoidance info.
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Energy Analysis from Policy Pete Website full of energy production facts and figures Detailed anyalysis of political and business claims and counterclaims. |
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Amory Lovins' Rocky Mountain Instiitute Home of the "real" supercars and ultra efficient hybrid vehicles. Energy efficiency consultation, publications, more.. |
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Abstracts and papers from Science Magazine. Leading US scientific journal occasionally has definitive papers on hydrogen and related technology. |
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Shawn Carlson's Society of Amateur Scientists. Network with followers of Shawn's Amateur Scientist columns that once appeared in Scientific American magazine. |
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Electrolysizers from Stuart Energy. A leading supplier of commercial electrolysis gear, normally used on-demand where hydrogen value far exceeds its energy content. |
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Vehicle info from the Society of Automotive Engineers. Actually, these days they call themselves SAE for sea, air, and earth transportation solutions. Books, resources, and publications. |
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Congressional Report Hydrogen Technology Policy A publication of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment. Looks vaguely lobbiest oriented. |
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Hydrogen Energy Center from ECO.ORG A regional New England group on hydrogen history, investing, ideas, links, and related topics. |
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Hydrogen & Fuel cell info from Reb Research A collection of dozens of useful Hydrogen, Fuel Cell and Renewable Energy Links. |
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Hydrogen & fuel cell info from Hyweb Resources A German site offering hydrogen information and links. Companies, products, news, research. tutorials. |
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Papers and Abstracts from Worldwatch Institute Dedicated to fostering the evolution of an environmentally sustainable society. |
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These appear abundant and offer energy densities approaching
gasoline. Serious problems involving purity, net energy recovery,
instability, and environmental disaster have yet to be resolved.
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Methane Hydrate Fact Sheet from the USGS Gas hydrate energy is estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth. |
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Methane Hydrate Tutorial from ORNL A clathrate is a structure in which water molecules bond to form an ice-like cage that encapsulates a gas molecule |
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Methane Hydrate Review from DOE Hydrate deposites are typically several hundred meters thick and of 500 meters or more ocean depth. |
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Methane Hydrate Research Initiative by ORNL These have unusually fast sonic properties. Their instabilities could cause sudden release environmental disasters. |
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Methane Hydrate Hazard Evaluation by CNIE There is today no safe way to produce the gas. Destabilization of the hydrates is a significant hazard. |
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Liquid Nitrogen cars are "gee whiz" student projects that offer
the energy density of lead acid batteries at one tenth the cost.
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The Cryocar from the University of Washington Liquid nitrogen powered vehicles can give low tech transportation solutions for 1/20th the cost of lead acid battery cars. |
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A Cool Nitrogen Car from the University of North Texas A second exploration of liquid nitrogen cars. The "engine" is just a plain old air motor. Air conditioning ends up trivial. |
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