The hydrogen energy transition: moving toward the post petroleum age in transportation

The Hydrogen Energy Transition addresses the key issues and actions that need to be taken to achieve a changeover to hydrogen power as it relates to vehicles and transportation, and explores whether such a transition is likely, or even possible. Government agencies and leaders in industry recognize the need to utilize hydrogen as an energy source in order to provide cleaner, more efficient, and more reliable energy for the world’s economies. This book analyzes this need and presents the most up-to-date government, industry, and academic information analyzing the use of hydrogen energy as an alternative fuel. With contributions from policy makers and researchers in the government, corporate, academic and public interest sectors, The Hydrogen Energy Transition brings together the viewpoints of professionals involved in all aspects of the hydrogen-concerned community. The text addresses key questions regarding the feasibility of transition to hydrogen fuel as a means of satisfying the world’s rapidly growing energy needs. The initiatives set forth in this text will mold the research, development and education efforts for hydrogen that will assist in the rapidly growing transportation needs for automobiles and other vehicles.

Key features:

* Presentations by the world's leaders in government, industry and academia
* Real-world solutions for the world's current fuel crisis.
* Endorsed by the University of California Transportation Center and Transportation Research Board

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction & Overview
Chapter 2: Back from the Future: To Build Strategies Taking Us to a Hydrogen Age
Chapter 3: Prospecting the Future for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Markets
Chapter 4: Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicles: The Challenge for the Future
Chapter 5: Where Will the Hydrogen Come From? System Considerations & Hydrogen Supply
Chapter 6: Clean Hydrogen from Coal with CO2 Capture and Sequestration
Chapter 7: Doing Good by Doing Well: Entrepreneurship in the Hydrogen Transition
Chapter 8: Hydrogen from Electrolysis
Chapter 9: The President's US Hydrogen Initiative
Chapter 10: The Hydrogen Transition: A California Perspective
Chapter 11: US Hydrogen Activity - A Reflection from the European Perspective
Chapter 12: Lessons Learned from 15 Years of Alternative Fuels Experience 1988 to 2003
Chapter 13: Lessons Learned in the Deployment of Alternative Fueled Vehicles
Chapter 14: Understanding the Transition to New Fuels and Vehicles: Lessons Learned from Experience of Alternative Fuel and Hybrid Vehicles
Chapter 15: The "Chicken or Egg" Problem Writ Large: Why a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Focus is Premature
Chapter 16: The Case for Battery Electric VehiclesEpilogue: Hydrogen Hope or Hype