Hydrogen posture plan: an integrated research, development and demonstration plan

Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Department of Energy : U.S. Dept. of Transportation, [2006] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)539326641 Subject: Hydrogen -- Economic aspects. Excerpt: ... 1. Introduction Today, America is confronted by several major energy challenges: ✦ Attaining greater energy and economic security by reducing dependence on foreign energy supplies ✦ Increasing affordable domestic energy supplies to meet anticipated demand ✦ Reducing air pollution and addressing concerns about climate change he President's National Energy Policy ( NEP ), the Energy Policy Act of 2005, T and the U.S. Department of Energy ( DOE ) Strategic Plan call for reducing U.S. reliance on imported oil. The NEP also acknowledges the need to increase energy supplies and use more energy-efficient technologies and practices. As highlighted Positive Attributes of Hydrogen in the NEP, energy-related activities are the as an Energy Carrier primary source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. The need for clean, abundant, ✦ Can be derived from diverse domestic affordable, domestically produced energy has resources ( fossil, nuclear, renewable ) never been greater. ✦ Is compatible with high-efficiency As President Bush acknowledged in his January fuel cells, combustion turbines and 23 hydrogen has 2003 State of the Union address, reciprocating engines to produce power the potential to play a major role in America's with near-zero emissions of criteria future energy system. Hydrogen can be derived pollutants from a variety of domestically available energy sources ( see several example pathways in roduces near-zero emissions of ✦ P Appendix B ). It has a wide variety of applications, greenhouse gases from renewable including fuel for automobiles and distributed and and nuclear sources and from fossil central electricity and thermal energy generation. fuel-based systems with carbon DOE recognizes that the development of this sequestration abundant element as an " energy carr...