Tomorrow's energy : hydrogen, fuel cells, and the prospects for a cleaner planet
Record details
- ISBN: 9780262516952
- ISBN: 0262516950
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Physical Description:
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xii, 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
- Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-330) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Why hydrogen? The grand picture -- Hydrogen's discovery: Phlogiston and inflammable air -- A history of hydrogen energy: The Reverend Cecil, Jules Verne, and the Redoubtable Mr. Erren -- Producing hydrogen from water, natural gas, and green plants -- Primary energy: Using solar and other power to make hydrogen -- Terra transport: Hydrogen for cars, buses, bikes, and boats -- Fuel cells: Mr. Grove's lovely technology -- Clean contrails: The Orient Express, Phantom Eye, and LAPCAT -- Hydrogen as utility gas: Hydricity, and the invisible flame -- Nonenergy uses of hydrogen: Metallic H₂, biodegradable plastics, and H₂ tofu -- Safety: The Hindenburg syndrome, or "Don't paint your dirigible with rocket fuel" -- The next fifty years. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Hydrogen as fuel |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | TP 359 .H8 H64 2012 | 30775305542327 | General Collection | Available | - |
CHOICE_Magazine Review
Tomorrow's Energy, Revised and Expanded Edition : Hydrogen, Fuel Cells, and the Prospects for a Cleaner Planet
CHOICE
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
It is difficult to conceive of additional praises for this book beyond the many superlative accounts and recommendations printed on the cover. Indeed, Hoffmann (editor, The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Letter) has written a persuasively clear, technically accurate, and convincingly optimistic book on the future of hydrogen in this revised edition (1st ed., CH, Jan'02, 39-2815). Any well-read energy expert can attest to its exhaustive research and painstaking detail--a technologist's delight. Hoffmann discusses all proven and promising end uses of hydrogen in the energy economy, from transportation to residential cooking and heating, giving detailed technical, economic, and environmental comparisons with competing energy sources and conversion systems. He goes beyond the energy arena to discuss nonenergy uses of hydrogen, an area that is rarely as well presented in popular hydrogen economy literature. This reviewer gives Hoffmann special accolades for his references to C. Marchetti, L. Gubler, and N. Nakicenovic, researchers who have published innovative and challenging analyses of global energy use and substitution patterns. Finally, these pioneers are getting good popular press. A must-have reference for any instructor or student of energy or energy conversion and the environment, and for any government or industry energy analyst or policy maker. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals; general readers. S. R. Walk Old Dominion University