Hydrogen Lifestyle

Hello USA- by Jgotthold

We've started this blog to inform people around the world that the possibility of a hydrogen lifestyle is beginning.

The ever higher cost of fossil fuel, like gasoline at the pump, heating oil in the delivery truck, natural gas in the pipeline, and coal in the rail road car is finally alerting the world that change is coming.

After thirty years of prosylitizing and developing, it finally seams that the renewed day of the electric car is now a few years away. It will take the form of the deep hybrid, or PHEV, plug in electric vehicle, but it will happen. if all the vehicles in the country were converted to some form of plug in electric vehicle and all had regeneration then the fleet mileage would double and we could cut our oil imports by half.

The conversion to electric based vehicles necessitates the rebuilding and expansion of the national electric grid. This will be emmensly beneficial to accommodate the variability of the rapidly growing contributions of wind and solar electrical generation.

The key requirement yet to be solved is the storage requirement for the variable wind and solar inputs to the grid. Several battery based installations which back up solar and wind are being implemented, but it is not possible to provide sufficient mass of battery to back up the whole grid.

The singular way to accomplish this back up on a mass scale is to convert the solar and wind energy to hydrogen and store it in massive caverns. Sceams that have been implemented before, such as pumping water up hill to a resevoir of compressing air into a cavern have been limited. With the global warming projected drouth impinging on the western states, water resevoirs are going to be problematical. Filling caverns with hydrogen stores a much greater amount of energy than just compressed air.

The stored hydrogen can be utilised as the load leveler through engine generators or through fuel cells to recover the energy and level the grid.

The greatest virtue of hydrogen is that it is scale-able. Independent Energy Research www.ier-usa.org is developing a complete independent Solar hydrogen energy system that provides 20 kW per hour of hydrogen gas and only requires sunlight and water as inputs.

An energy system that has no carbon, produces no pollution, and has storage ability to bypass storms and cloudy days is the ideal solution. Done on a distributed basis the solar hydrogen system is the ultimate; endlessly renewable, totally non-polluting, and most important of all independent. The owner controls his energy destiny!

Till next time=
J Gotthold