Tomorrow's energy : hydrogen, fuel cells, and the prospects for a cleaner planet / / Peter Hoffmann
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| Autore: |
Hoffmann Peter <1935->
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| Titolo: |
Tomorrow's energy : hydrogen, fuel cells, and the prospects for a cleaner planet / / Peter Hoffmann
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, 2001 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.79/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fuel |
| Hydrogen as fuel | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tomorrow’s energy |
| ISBN: | 1-282-10002-5 |
| 0-262-27551-1 | |
| 9786612100024 | |
| 0-585-44470-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819214503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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