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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819214503321

Autore

Hoffmann Peter <1935->

Titolo

Tomorrow's energy : hydrogen, fuel cells, and the prospects for a cleaner planet / / Peter Hoffmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2001

ISBN

1-282-10002-5

0-262-27551-1

9786612100024

0-585-44470-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

333.79/4

Soggetti

Fuel

Hydrogen as fuel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-281) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Sommario/riassunto

How hydrogen--nonpolluting and easy to produce--could become the fuel of the future.