Hydrogen Is Energy Carrier, Not Source
DOI: 10.1063/1.1784263
In “Hydrogen-Based Energy Merits Research” (Physics Today, October 2003, page 35 ), reporter Jim Dawson has fallen into the same trap so many writers of hydrogen articles do. Hydrogen is not an energy source. It is a carrier of energy. For hydrogen to replace fossil fuels, extremely large-scale programs of solar power, wind power, fission, or fusion must be developed to produce it. This major factor is not mentioned in the article; in fact, it seems also to have been omitted in the Department of Energy report. Perhaps the Physics Today article should have brought that out.
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George D. Curtis, (gcurtis@hawaii.edu) University of Hawaii at Hilo, US .
