Hydrogen Power

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Hydrogen Power
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_power

• By Maggie Hartz
• Mike Balke
• Jackie Fontaine

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Uses and Functions of Hydrogen Power

• electricity
• electric cars
• emergency power to hospitals
• wilderness locations
• refining
• treating metals
• processing foods
• NASA

Chevy Volt Hydrogen Power Car
NASA hydrogen power fuel cell
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How Hydrogen Power Produces Energy

• Steam reforming
• electrolysis
• biological production

• Photoelectrolysis
• Biomass gasification
• Thermolysis

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Advantages of Hydrogen Power

• eliminates most pollution problems we face today
• gives off no carbon dioxide
• nontoxic
• less flammable than gasoline

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What Hydrogen Power Would Replace

• Fossil Fuels
• Oil
• Natural Gas
• Coal Burning Power Plants
• It can even replace other forms of renewable
  energy like wind and hydroelectric

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Hydrogen Energy California Project (HECA)
HECA is designed to take carbon based products
and put them through a gasification process to
make end products of carbon dioxide and hydrogen.
This will be used to power a turbine to create
energy

• Pros
• Would reduce fossil fuel use by a lot
• Hydrogen feeds a 390 MW power plant
• Powers 150,000 people so far
• Captures 90 of CO2 from plant and pumps it to
  nearby oil fields for storage
• Uses recycled resources in the process

• Cons
• Still uses coal to produce the CO2 and hydrogen
• 10 of the carbon dioxide produced is released
  into the atmosphere

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Challenges of Making Hydrogen Power Mainstream

• New facilities and systems must be built to
  process hydrogen
• People need to learn to use it safely
• It takes a lot of energy to produce usable H2
• The gas containers and liquid holders are very
  expensive and heavy
• The creation of hydrogen as an energy source is
  very expensive as of now

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Challenges Cont

• Hydrogen Power has a small chance of becoming
  mainstream because it isnt a fuel like oil and
  gas it stores and transports energy.
• Hydrogen has to be made before usage usually by
  being extracted from fossil fuels or from water.
• Fuel cells are very expensive so that will
  prolong the usage of hydrogen power
• It will probably be 10 years before we start to
  see mainstream usage of hydrogen power

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Michigan

• Hydrogen fueled Interstate rail coming to
  Michigan
• Hydrogen would be used in fuel cells, internal
  combustion engines, micro turbines, and other
  devices to generate power
• The US Department of Energys Hydrogen Fleet
  Demonstration and Validation Program has worked
  to help advance hydrogen infrastructure for usage
  of fuel
• Michigan will help in the project to build cars
  with hydrogen power engines

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Work Cited

• Bellis, Mary. "Hydrogen fuel cells." Inventors.
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  startinventions/a/Fuel_Cells.htmgt.
• Energy Information Administration. "What is
  Hydrogen." EIA. Oct. 2008. 4 Feb. 2009
  lthttp//www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/I
  ntermediateHydrogen.htmlgt.
• HECA. "About the Hydrogen Energy California
  Project." Hydrogen Energy CAlifornia. 2008. 5
  Feb. 2009 ltBellis, Mary. "Hydrogen fuel cells."
  Inventors. 2000. 4 Feb. 2009 .gt.
• Miller Jr., Tyler G. Living in the Environment.
  USA Brooks/Cole, 2002
• Wikipedia. "Hydrogen Economy." Wikipedia. 3 Feb.
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  drogen_powergt.
• Wise, Jeff. "The Truth About Hydrogen." Popular
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