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Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson |
The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. |
Geotimes August 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Heat on U.S. Climate Policy Recent events have focused a spotlight on the Bush administration's position on climate change on both the international and national stage. |
Chemistry World March 14, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Hydrogen's false economy Hydrogen will undoubtedly find transport niches, but talk of hydrogen powering a substantial proportion of the planet's billion cars (and counting) is driven more by techno-optimism than evidence. |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Rich Smith |
BMW's Hydrogen Boondoggle The "Hydrogen 7" announcement is full of hot air. Investors, before you give up entirely on hydrogen fuel cells, though, do remember that progress is being made. |
Wired April 2003 Schwartz & Randall |
How Hydrogen Can Save America The cost of oil dependence has never been so clear. Consumers are ready for an alternative. From Detroit to Dallas, even the oil establishment is primed for change. We put a man on the moon in a decade; we can achieve energy independence just as fast. Here's how. |
Scientific American November 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Climate Change and the Law (Extended edition) Even the Bush administration has started to recognize U.S. legal obligations to fight global warming. |
Geotimes October 2004 Megan Sever |
Fuel Economies, Part I Although scientists are striving to have a mass-producible hydrogen fuel cell car in 10 to 15 years as well, the more realistic timeline is probably 50 years. |
Geotimes April 2007 Semans & de Fontaine |
Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Business World Looks at Climate Change Increasing momentum at the state and federal levels, along with the business community, is proof that we are now in the design phase for climate change legislation, and companies clearly expect regulations soon. |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 |
Inside the Future of Electric Cars, Hydrogen and Next-Gen Biofuels The market has never looked better for alternative fuels and electric vehicles. |
Chemistry World October 2011 |
Fuelling the Future Fuel cell vehicles have taken a back seat to battery and hybrid power in recent years. But hydrogen still holds promise in the long term. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2013 Martin Smith |
Clearing the air about the hydrogen economy It's a curious thought that multi-billion dollar investment from the likes of Mercedes, Honda, Toyota, Ford, Hyundai, Shell, Total, BOC, the EU, state governments and others is ill-considered. |
Salon.com January 26, 2001 Dawn MacKeen |
Overwhelming evidence of global warming Experts hope a startling new report will be enough to persuade President Bush to take action... |
Industrial Physicist |
Letters A sheet of graphite is distinctly different in its material and geometric structure from C60 bucky- (nano-) tubes... Hydrogen rules?... etc. |
Wired August 2002 Dan Baum |
GM's Billion-Dollar Bet The hydrogen car has been a long time coming. GM is betting $1 billion that the end of internal combustion is near. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 William Sweet |
Energy & Climate: All Talk, No Action? Europe's made significant progress regarding global warming, but not toward energy independence |
Finance & Development December 2009 Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
Chemistry World December 16, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Durban agreement welcomed by chemical industry The climate change agreement that nearly 200 nations reached on 11 December after nearly two weeks of negotiations at the United Nations climate summit in Durban, South Africa, is largely being celebrated by the global chemical industry. |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Pinkerton & Wicke |
Bottling the hydrogen genie If hydrogen is to replace gasoline for road transport, a means to store useful quantities of hydrogen on-board the vehicle must be found. Storage as a liquid, as a gas, or in metal hydrides all have serious limitations. |
BusinessWeek January 24, 2005 Otis Port |
Hydrogen Cars Are Almost Here, But... There are still serious problems to solve, such as: Where will drivers fuel up? |
Scientific American February 2007 Jeffrey Sachs |
Moving beyond Kyoto To seriously address the issue of global climate change, policymakers need to establish a framework that extends through the end of the century |
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Energy Conservation is No Barrier to Japan's Economic Ambitions Every spring, fierce winds kick up the Gobi Desert's dust and blow east through China, where the dirt blends with pollutants from the growing numbers of factories. The resulting mixture travels across the Sea of Japan. |
National Defense August 2008 McClintock & Holbrook |
Alternative Fuels: Taking A Second Look at Ammonia The search for alternative transportation fuels has led to anhydrous ammonia, a chemical widely used as a fertilizer. |
Car and Driver September 2006 Siler & Vanderwerp |
2007 BMW Hydrogen 7 Hydrogen-powered 7-series will be leased to U.S. government agencies in 2007. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 William Sweet |
What to Expect From the Copenhagen Climate Confab Success or at least a perception of success may be critical, but how is success to be measured? |
Geotimes September 2005 Linda Rowan |
Congressional Climate: Changing or Chilling? A flurry of discussions and compromises on aspects of the energy bill included a level of activity on climate change that has never been seen before in Congress, including a confrontation in the House on specific science results that has brought scientific peer review to the forefront of the debate. |
Popular Mechanics November 4, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis Perhaps it's a sign of progress that the federal government is skirmishing not over whether to pursue alternative fuels, but over how many such technologies are worth investing in. Still, the hydrogen debate is not a healthy one. |
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 David Welch |
Gentlemen, Start Your Hybrids Ford, Toyota, and Honda are betting on a payoff. GM and others aren't so sure |
Chemistry World July 21, 2009 Anna Lewcock |
Degrees of freedom The global nature of the climate change offers both opportunities and challenges. The US, for example, is keen to establish international cooperation and collaboration in climate change research |
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Mike Allen |
How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Before we can debate national energy policy -- or even decide which petroleum substitutes might make sense for our personal vehicles -- we need to know how these things stack up in the real world. So we crunched the numbers on alternative fuels. |
Geotimes January 2007 |
A Look Ahead at the 110th Congress Committee: Environment and Public Works; Chair: Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.); Stated Priorities... Committee: Energy and Natural Resources; Chair: Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.); Stated Priorities... etc. |
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Hydrogen Fuel Cells to Power Homes, Vehicles in Japan Next year, companies including Panasonic, Toshiba and Toyota will begin selling residential fuel cell systems across the nation, says Hisashi Yano, director of the Japan Hydrogen Fuel Cell demonstration park. |
Geotimes August 2005 John A. Turner |
The Sustainable Hydrogen Economy The major issue facing United States and most other countries in the world is how to supply transportation fuel. Hydrogen, as part of a sustainable energy supply, can meet the challenge of a domestically produced energy carrier that can replace gasoline, and can additionally address carbon dioxide and other emissions. |
Geotimes March 2007 Linda Rowan |
A Change in Climate in Congress: To Act or Not To Act Because some state and local governments are taking action, Congress will need to set some federal standards in the near term. The nation can ill-afford a hodge-podge of regulations and policies on climate change across the country. |
Wired September 22, 2008 Steve Rayner |
Steve Rayner: Take Climate Change Seriously The outgoing administration failed to come to grips with climate change out of fear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions would damage the economy. |
Popular Mechanics September 15, 2008 Daniel Krach |
Living With Hydrogen, Gas Prices Become Incentive for Progress Getting to a future of hydrogen-electric hybrids that will wean us from gasoline for good will require more battery and fuel cell research and convincing Americans that $4/gallon gas can be a good thing. |
Chemistry World June 20, 2008 Richard Van Noorden |
Global industries call for carbon cuts Business leaders from more than 90 of the world's largest companies, including major chemical companies, have endorsed a policy framework for tackling climate change ahead of July's G8 summit in Japan. |
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2008 Melinda Wenner |
U.N. Puts Greenhouse-Free Clean Coal on the Back Burner U.N. plans to sign a new international climate treaty next year, and in negotiating recommendations delegates found common ground in many areas. |
IndustryWeek October 21, 2009 |
First Up -- The Two Sides of Climate Change While the move to a greener economy offers many exciting opportunities, the transition is also fraught with peril. |
Chemistry World November 5, 2014 |
Emissions must hit zero by 2100, says IPCC The International Panel on Climate Change says that carbon emissions will have to fall to zero by 2100, but that the means to achieve this are economically affordable. |
Geotimes December 2003 Megan Sever |
Humans impact the climate, says AGU The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has adopted a new position statement on climate change that recognizes the increasing alteration of the Earth's climate by human activities. |
Chemistry World January 4, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Copenhagen: after the circus In an agreement forged overnight following fraught negotiations at the end of the Copenhagen climate conference, countries agreed to act to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius. |
Metropolis April 2007 Michael Silverberg |
Deconstructions: Ford Airstream Concept Vehicle A hydrogen-electric prototype out of Detroit brings fuel cells closer to the U.S. auto industry. |
U.S. Banker December 2008 Michael Dumiak |
Climate Change Prompts Strategic Thinking Even given the daily fluctuations of ongoing and systemic world financial woes, climate change remains a front-burner issue -- and a new political administration means that Washington's stance toward that issue will change, too. |
National Defense July 2009 Jeff Smith |
Defense Department's Energy Strategy Debated The Defense Department is making progress reducing energy demand, but it has a long way to go to meet the federal government's aggressive targets, military and government officials said. |
Reason October 2004 Adrian Moore |
Hydrogen Hot Air In most cases fueling cars with hydrogen would make little net difference in emissions of greenhouse gases, and in some cases would even increase them. |
Salon.com September 24, 2002 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Hydrotopia Say goodbye to fossil fuels. Author and environmentalist Jeremy Rifkin explains why hydrogen is the next great power source. |
Geotimes August 2003 Megan Sever |
Climate change report reexamined One of the more controversial topics of the Bush administration's revised strategic plan for climate change research is the ongoing debate of how anthropogenic factors factor into global climate change. Discussion at a meeting this week between government scientists and the NAS proved no different. |
Entrepreneur June 2006 Jill Amadio |
Grow, Car, Grow The green car market is branching out. |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2009 Jack Ewing |
Hydrogen Cars Are Still Headed for the Highway Advances in fuel-cell technology and a commitment from the German government to build a fueling network mean automakers haven't given up on hydrogen. |
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick |
Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol. |