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portada Descargar ficha PDF Título: Hype About Hydrogen, The. Fact And Fiction In The Race To Save The Climate
Autor: Romm Joseph J. Precio: $280.00
Editorial: Island Press Año: 2005
Tema: Tecnologia, Politica, Clima Edición: 1ª
Sinopsis ISBN: 9781559637046
Lately it has become a matter of conventional wisdom that hydrogen will solve many of our energy and environmental problems. Nearly everyone -- environmentalists, mainstream media commentators, industry analysts, General Motors, and even President Bush -- seems to expect emission-free hydrogen fuel cells to ride to the rescue in a matter of years, or at most a decade or two.

Not so fast, says Joseph Romm. In The Hype about Hydrogen, he explains why hydrogen isn't the quick technological fix it's cracked up to be, and why cheering for fuel cells to sweep the market is not a viable strategy for combating climate change. Buildings and factories powered by fuel cells may indeed become common after 2010, Joseph Romm argues, but when it comes to transportation -- the biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions -- hydrogen is unlikely to have a significant impact before 2050. Since the climate can't wait that long, we must act now to speed the adoption of energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies that are already commercially available.

Joseph Romm, who helped run the federal government's program on hydrogen and fuel cells during the Clinton administration, provides a provocative primer on the politics, business, and technology of hydrogen and climate protection. At a time when it's often hard to separate science from spin, The Hype about Hydrogen offers a hype-free explanation of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, takes a hard look at the practical difficulties of transitioning to a hydrogen economy, and reveals why, given increasingly strong evidence of the gravity of climate change, 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.

The Author
JOSEPH J. ROMM served in various positions in the Department of Energy during the Clinton administration. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, and a Principal with the Capital E Group, he is the author of Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity By Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Island Press, 1999).

Biographies
JOSEPH J. ROMM served in various positions in the Department of Energy during the Clinton administration. Currently the Executive Director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, and a Principal with the Capital E Group, he is the author of Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity By Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Island Press, 1999).

Quotes
?It?s hard to argue with the relentless logic presented by Joseph Romm in his new book, The Hype about Hydrogen...ÿ --Jim Motavalli, E/The Environmental Magazine

Table Of Contents
Table of Contents

Foreword by John H. Gibbons

Introduction

Chapter 1. Why Hydrogen? Why Now?

Chapter 2. Fuel Cell Basics

Chapter 3. The Path to Fuel Cell Commercialization

Chapter 4. Hydrogen Production

Chapter 5. Key Elements of a Hydrogen-Based Transportation System

Chapter 6. The Long Road to Commercialization of Fuel Cell Vehicles

Chapter 7. Global Warming and Scenarios for a Hydrogen Transition

Chapter 8. Coping with the Global Warming Century

Chapter 9. Hydrogen Partnerships and Pilots

Conclusion: Choosing Our Future

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index
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