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Hydrogen hype?

Publication: Sierra
Publication Date: 01-NOV-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Hydrogen hype?(The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin (Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Penguin, $14.95)

The quest for an ideal energy source has ironically moved from a very complex element--uranium--to the simplest--hydrogen. With nuclear power having failed to fulfill prophecies of boundless energy from "atoms for peace," the gas is being touted as the latest clean, inexhaustible font of energy. Indeed, very word "hydrogen" has become a utopian mantra for some energy advocates, not all of them starry-eyed futurists. Even that famed acolyte of big oil, George W. Bush, supports hydrogen-fueled vehicles.

Problem is, hydrogen doesn't create energy. It merely stores it, like a battery. In a basic chemistry course you stick bare wires from...

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