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Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate
Island Books
July 2005
On Sale: July 15, 2005
272 pages
ISBN: 1559637048
EAN: 9781559637046
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Lately it has become a matter of conventional wisdom that
hydrogen will solve many of our energy and environmental
problems. Nearly everyone -- environmentalists, mainstream
media commentators, industry analysts, General Motors, and
even President Bush -- seems to expect emission-free
hydrogen fuel cells to ride to the rescue in a matter of
years, or at most a decade or two. Not so fast, says Joseph Romm. In The Hype about Hydrogen,
he explains why hydrogen isn't the quick technological fix
it's cracked up to be, and why cheering for fuel cells to
sweep the market is not a viable strategy for combating
climate change. Buildings and factories powered by fuel
cells may indeed become common after 2010, Joseph Romm
argues, but when it comes to transportation, the biggest
source of greenhouse-gas emissions, hydrogen is unlikely to
have a significant impact before 2050. The Hype about Hydrogen offers a hype-free explanation of
hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, takes a hard look at
the practical difficulties of transitioning to a hydrogen
economy, and reveals why, given increasingly strong evidence
of the gravity of climate change, neither government policy
nor business investment should be based on the belief that
hydrogen cars will have meaningful commercial success in the
near or medium term. Romm, who helped run the federal
government's program on hydrogen and fuel cells during the
Clinton administration, provides a provocative primer on the
politics, business, and technology of hydrogen and climate
protection.
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