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//__Background on hydrogen:__// Hydrogen was discovered by Henry Cavendish in London, England in 1766. Unlike many new ideas for displacing oil hydrogen relies old proven technology. It is one of two natural ingredients that combine to make water. It is an energy carrier, not an energy source. Hydrogen can be created using water, sewage, garbage, landfills, agricultural biomass, paper product waste and many methods. Hydrogen is naturally produced by plants and is colorless, odorless tasteless and nontoxic. //__

What is the problem at hand?__//  According to reports from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Spokane's carbon monoxide levels are among the poorest in the nation, and it will continue to worsen if we keep feeding the harmful gases with our polluting cars. The cars that we drive so frequently give off carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and carbon dioxide. This contributes to urban smog, rural air pollution, acid rain, and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. We need a way of transportation that does not harm the environment.  //__What is the driving force of the problem? __//  People are using harmful chemicals which release pollution into the air which is damaging to our ozone layer! Like factories releasing harmful gases into the atmosphere. Another problem is that we use our cars to transport us everywhere. Vehicles are a major source of air pollution in America's cities and urban areas. Hydrogen fuel cells produce electricity to power cars without any pollution.  //__What are people currently doing or not doing to solve the problem? __//  Scientists are trying to find ways to use hydrogen fuel cells instead of these harmful gases. They are experimenting new ways to replace the fuels that run our cars with hydrogen fuel cells. These new discoveries will also help find new electricity sources.

//__Explain how it works: __//  Hydrogen can be attained from water by the process of electrolysis, which is where water molecules split using electricity. Hydrogen is consumed by a pollution-free chemical reaction in a fuel cell. The fuel cell simply combines hydrogen and oxygen chemically to produce electricity, water, and waste heat.

//__Determine the amount of CO2 it produces or inhibits: __// In the overall carbon dioxide output, cars produce about 35% of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. //__Determine the amount of water it can generate or purify: __//  In the process, about 15 kilograms of water are generated for every one mile driven in a car. //__Highlight the best aspects of it: __//  With this new source of fuel, it could stop and even reverse some of the effects of global warming and the destruction to the ozone layer. Instead of producing harmful gases that could damage our environment, it turns out water and a new chemical that would not cause any more damage to our environment. //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Describe how the critics would discuss it: __//<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> The federal government, automakers and energy companies are trying to overcome the technological and financial barriers to the successful development of commercially practical, emissions-free fuel cell vehicles that require no foreign oil. The Department of Energy estimates that the hydrogen fuel project and Freedom CAR program may reduce our need for petroleum by over 11 million barrels per day by 2040. (Approximately the amount of oil America imports today.) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">If it already makes up a lot of the world's fuel/energy supply explain why. __// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, constituting about 93% of all atoms. Hydrogen fuel cells where just recently revealed. But scientists have not come up with a full efficient way to program these atoms into producing clean fuel. Even though there is a car that will run on hydrogen it still needs a certain amount of gas to work properly and are incredibly pricey. But in the future most people are going to be using these hydrogen powered cars and our diesel running cars won’t be used anymore. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Explain how it could help solve some of the problems or contributes to those problems: __// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> These hydrogen power cars could help prevent further damage of our environment and ozone layer. It could also reverse some of the effects from global warming. Because the main reasons we are having these problems is because of the intoxicating fumes produced by our vehicles. This new fuel does not produce the same chemicals as diesel does; it produces water and is a reusable source of energy. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Explain what it would take to do your thing better or in a larger scale. __// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> We could advertise how much better using hydrogen fuel cells is and to cut down on the prices. This would make it more affordable to more people, this way more people could buy these vehicles and less people would be using the cars we have now that release harmful gases into our atmosphere. Because if hydrogen is really one of the most abundant atoms in the world why should it be so expensive. For if more people knew how much damage we have done to our environment they might be less ignorant and take a stand and try and fix it. //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Explain who uses that technology and why. If it isn't used very much explain that instead. __// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> Companies have come up with ways for hydrogen fuel cells to run cars and some people have been buying and using them but these cars are kind of pricey for some people making them stick with the diesel running cars. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">After learning about it what would you do next to change how it’s used? Why? __//<span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"> The next step we would take would be to come up with ways to be able to use it in homes and buildings so that factories could be able to use it also so that they wouldn’t release harmful gases and pollution into the atmosphere. This would be the next step to saving our planet and helping the ozone lawyer from being damaged further. We would also find a way to create a vehicle that only ran on hydrogen and not gas, for it to work properly. // “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next sever generations.” - The great law of the Iroquois Nation// "Hydrogen Fuel." __News and Information About Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology.__ Renewable Energy. 21 Mar. 2008 [|http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/technology/hydrogen-fuel/.]

Jeremiah Mondello. "Hydrogen Power." __"Paving the Way to a Brighter__. 13 Dec. 2002. 21 Mar. 2008 <http://www.geocities.com/hydrogenpower1/essays/main/hydrogen.html#background>.

Walton, Marsha. Could hydrogen be the fuel of the future? CNN. 4 June 2002 http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/16/hydrogen.cars/

"Hydrogen Molecules." __Hydrogen__. 21 Mar. 2008 <[|http://www.rkm.com.au/HYDROGEN/hydrogen-images/HYDROGEN-molecules.jpg>.]