Information about the "hydrogen economy"

• 7/17/08 With Government and Industry Support, Hydrogen Vehicles Could Reduce U.S. Oil Use and Emissions new report from the National Research Council
• Hydrogen Fueling Station Database NHA
• How the Hydrogen Economy Works HowStuffWorks.com
• H2PIA: World's first hydrogen city
• The mission of Icelandic New Energy is to "investigate the potential for eventually replacing the use of fossil fuels in Iceland with hydrogen and create the world’s first hydrogen economy . . . If Iceland is to become a hydrogen-based society in the foreseeable future, then according to the principles of sustainable development, decisions should be based on total benefits and costs, based on life-cycle costs."
• Framework for the International Partnership for the Hydrogen Economy (IPHE) Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, International Energy Agency Ministerial Meeting, Paris, France, April 28, 2003
• 2/2004 The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities,Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Board on Energy and Environmental Systems
• Hydrogen Economy Fact Sheet "On June 25, 2003, the US and the European Union agreed to collaborate on the acceleration of the development of the hydrogen economy. . ." The White House
• Strategic Planning for the Hydrogen Economy: The Hydrogen Commercialization Plan National Hydrogen Association
• Near-Term Hydrogen Implementation Plan 1999-2005 NHA
• The Hydrogen, Fuel Cells & Infrastructure Technologies Program DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
• 3/2002 Hydrogen as Alternative Fuel Rolf Trill Linde AG, Linde Gas , Munich
• Molecular Hydrogen and Water Vapour Emissions in a Global Hydrogen Energy Economy Proceedings of the 11th World Hydrogen Energy Conference, Stuttgart, Germany, June 1996
• The Hydrogen Economy and Nuclear Energy "Relative economic cost and environmental consequences favor using nuclear energy to mass produce hydrogen." Nuclear Energy Institute
• Database of worldwide hydrogen refuelling stations
• The HYCHAIN Project (Ruhr-Alps-Milan Hydrogen Supply Chain Integrated Project)

Arguments FOR a "hydrogen economy"

• A Strategy for the Hydrogen Transition Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
• Twenty Hydrogen Myths Amory Lovins
• Hydrogen Myths and Misconceptions General Hydrogen
• The Hydrogen Economy Eco Soul
• THE PHOENIX PROJECT Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen with Wartime Speed
• The Power to Change the World "The hydrogen economy would make possible a vast redistribution of power. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by global oil companies and utilities, would become obsolete. In the new era, every human being could become the producer as well as the consumer of his or her own energy--so-called "distributed generation." Jeremy Rifkin, Common Dreams
• This Hydrogen Powered World "The cost of changing to a hydrogen-powered world will not be excessive, especially if the external costs of pollution and ill health associated with fossil fuels are taken into account as credits towards the cost of using hydrogen as a clean fuel with no external costs. "

Arguments AGAINST a "hydrogen economy"

• 9/4/07 Letter from Tom Gage: Consumer Reports hypes hydrogen cars Grist
• The Hydrogen Hoax "The biggest problem with hydrogen is the opportunity cost of spending billions of dollars in research on this technology and lobbying for this technology when so many alternatives exist." Ed "Redwood" Ring, CEO & Editor, EcoWorld
• The Hydrogen Hoax "To get serious about energy policy, America needs to abandon, once and for all, the false promise of the hydrogen age." Robert Zubrin, The New Atlantis
• The false promise of the hydrogen economy Planetforlife
• On the Way to a Sustainable Energy Future "Energy problem cannot be solved by
  switching from fossil fuels to hydrogen" Ulf Bossel, European Fuel Cell Forum
• The Future of the Hydrogen Economy: Bright or Bleak? A white paper by Ulf Bossel, Baldur Eliasson and Gordon Taylor (Final Report 4/15/2003, revised 10/28/04) "The time has come to shift the focus of energy strategy planning, research and development from an elemental “Hydrogen Economy” to a “Synthetic Liquid Hydrocarbon Economy”."
• The Hype About Hydrogen by Joseph J. Romm, former head of energy efficiency and renewable technologies under President Clinton "This book makes the case that hydrogen vehicles are unlikely to achieve even a 5 percent market penetration by 2030. And this in turn leads to the book’s major conclusion for all readers, from policymakers to corporate executives to investors to anyone who cares about the future of the planet: Neither government policy nor business investment should be based on the belief that hydrogen cars will have meaningful commercial success in the near- or medium-term."
• 3/2005 Nuclear Energy and The Future: The Hydrogen Economy or the Electricity Economy? An Opinion/White Paper "hydrogen has a critical inefficiency problem that is rooted in thermodynamics, that is essentially unsolvable and that renders hydrogen impractical as either an energy carrier or an energy storage tool" Institute for the Analysis of Global Security
• The Truth About Hydrogen - a response to Lovins' 20 Myths paper TMG/The Management Group
• Drunk on Hydrogen "As a physics teacher I often lecture about alternative energy and occasionally our calculations uncover some areas of the topic that are cause for questioning. The “Hydrogen Economy” is just such a case and I think it’s time to point out some reasons why we should be careful about pinning all of our hopes on this technology. . . " The Rant: A Journal of Independent Political Thought

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