BermudezEnergyWaterwiki

Gabriel J. Bermudez
=Hydrogen sssd= =Fuel dddd=

The problem at hand would be that we only have a limited amount of natural resources for the population of the earth. An even bigger problem is that we use this resources every day. Even though renewable energy is a solution, is not something easily accomplished. You cannot just make the entire world, stop using fossil fuels. At the rate we are going our planet will not last much longer.
 * //1. The problem at hand?//**

//**2. The driving force of the problem?**// The driving force of the problem is money. Money causes the main changes in this world and helping our environment is not exactly a good money making business.

//**3. What people are currently doing or not doing to solve the problem?**//

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//**4. How it works**// Hydrogen is a good energy source carrier for mobile uses, one of the reasons why is so good is because it does not produce carbon dioxide. The two big thoughts on this, are the internal combustion car and the hydrogen fuel cell. The internal combustion hydrogen car is the first fore mentioned way, any car can be converted to using hydrogen as a fuel and can be fitted with a fuel cell on board to produce your won hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cells by chemical reaction with electricity will turn motors.

//**5. The amount of CO2 it produces or inhibits**// The hydrogen fuel cell works like a battery except that it has an unlimited source of energy. It work by converting Hydrogen and Oxygen into water which produces electricity.

Anode Reaction: 2H2 => 4H+ + 4e- Cathode Reaction: O2 + 4H+ + 4e- => 2H2O Overall Cell Reaction: 2H2 + O2 => 2H2O

//**6. The amount of water it can generate or purify**// When fuel cells complete the reaction the only byproduct they will have is heat and water. So in this process carbon dioxide is not produced.



//**7. The best aspects of it**// The way hydrogen fuel cells produce water is by combining oxygen and hydrogen. The water may be reused as a cooling medium for the fuel cell or also can be turned into drinking water. Also you could use this on a vehicle to extract the hydrogen from the water produced, making the car a more efficient vehicle.

//**8. How the critics would discuss it**// No carbon dioxide is produced Fuels are quiet and smooth An Hydrogen has more stored energy then gasoline.

//**9. Drawbacks**// Producing hydrogen requires use of fossil fuel because this process does not occur naturally. Fuel cells cost a large amount of money. An no method to store fuel cells has yet to be found.

It makes barely any of the world's fuel.
 * //10. Does it already make up a lot of the world's fuel/energy supply.//**




 * //11. Quotes from scientists or policy makers.//**
 * U.S. Department of Energy official Samuel W. Bodman, "A hydrogen car is one of the least efficient, most expensive ways to reduce greenhouse gases."
 * Dan Lipinski, "As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells."
 * Charlie Dent, "Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and has the potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry."
 * Dennis Weaver, "If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air because the air coming out of the exhaust would be cleaner than the air going into the engine intake."
 * Albert Wynn, "We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal."

If every vehicle in the world used hydrogen right now carbon dioxide emissions would decrease by a minimum of thirty-five percent.
 * //12. How it could help solve some of the problems or contributes to those problems.//**

The biggest problem with hydrogen with hydrogen fuel cell is the production and where to store it. At the moment hydrogen is produced using fossil fuels, it could be replaced by other renewable energy sources. Storing hydrogen is a problem because it need to be compressed under high pressure in tanks and does not condense into a liquid under easily attainable pressure.The entire infrastructure of oil would be replace by hydrogen. Replacing gas stations with hydrogen stations, researching new storage methods and improving hydrogen production.
 * //13. what it would take to do your thing better or in a larger scale.//**

Automotive companies are developing vehicles to run on hydrogen and putting money into the technology. Many people have started retrofitting their vehicles to run on hydrogen in their combustion engines.
 * //14. who uses that technology and why. If it isn't used very much explain that instead.//**

Hydrogen cell technology, is argued that is not suitable for vehicles because their is no infrastructure to support hydrogen cars. If the same effort put into fossil fuel where put into driving hydrogen, we be driving hydrogen cars in the next fifteen years if not sooner. We could used wind sun, oceans and earth to produce hydrogen power, the same way it produces power for this earth.
 * //15. What I would Do//**

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