A New Power Paradigm: Hydrogen
With the price and the demand for oil rising, many believe that it is time we begin to use alternative sources of power. The use of alternatives to oil will become more necessary as the oil reserves are being continually depleted. Fifty years from now, we many not have the option to use oil as our main source of fuel to power cars because the rate at which we are consuming it suggests that there will not be any left. Therefore many scientists and technology experts, in recent years, have begun to test the viability of other sources of power. Hydrogen, one of the power alternatives to oil, has received a great deal of attention because of its abundance. When we can no longer rely on oil, hydrogen may become the new power paradigm. Author Ty Cashman states its numerous benefits in an essay concerning the use of hydrogen as a power source:Hydrogen is a non-polluting fuel (water is the exhaust). Hydrogen can fuel today's internal combustion engines. Today's vehicles can be converted to hydrogen in a day or so with a very simple, inexpensive conversion kit. A control dial on the vehicle control panel can vary the hydrogen with gasoline from 0-100% according to the availability of refuel
Hundreds of millions of existing vehicles will need to be converted to hydrogen during the next twenty years. This means that the use of hydrogen as a source of power can help to improve upon the damage done to the environment done by decades of the use of oil. Furthermore, being good for the earth also makes the use of hydrogen as a power source good for our health. "The burning of fossil fuel causes pollution, which causes millions to suffer from lung respiratory, and allergic reactions, also radiation from nuclear power plants...Hydrogen would eliminate all of these problems" (Hydrogen Power). Additionally, the article points out that hydrogen can help to eliminate the risk of carbon monoxide leaks. Hydrogen production from hydrocarbons can also produce carbon, which had ten times the strength of steel, for automobile bodies and structural members (Cashman 8). Hydrogen is now made from natural gas (methane), petroleum, and/or coal. It can also be made from water by electrolysis. A situation such as this would not be present if hydrogen were the primary source of power for the United States. Hydrogen, which is present and can be harnesses and converted into energy, would break our dependence on Middle Eastern countries. Hydrogen can replace all fossil fuels.
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Approximate Word count = 1867
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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