| Hydrogen Age, The: Empowering a Clean-Energy Future |  | Authors: Geoffrey Holland, James Provenzano
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 362,764
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 158685786X
Dewey Decimal Number: 665.81
EAN: 9781586857868
ASIN: 158685786X
Publication Date: September 14, 2007
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Hydrogen stands out as the best alternative to traditional polluting fossil fuels for many reasons-it can be produced without pollution, is nontoxic and noncorrosive, and we can never run out of it. It is as safe as or safer than the fuels we currently use and can be made virtually anywhere. The Hydrogen Age explains this promising fuel, shows how it can be harnessed to serve virtually all of our energy needs, and reveals why hydrogen is destined to become the clean, safe, renewable fuel of choice for the future.
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 Balanced treatment for hydrogen November 5, 2007
Gordon Hamilton (Los Angeles, CA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book takes on the multiple challenges of oil dependence, greenhouse gas emissions, and diminishing supplies of fossil fuels, and points the way to a solution for these challenges by the development and widespread use of hydrogen in all the energy spheres of society. The authors show how replacement of fossil fuels with hydrogen is occurring and is beneficial in transportation, stationary power, aviation, space, and many other applications. The Hydrogen Age delineates the availability, efficiency, safety, environmental, and energy features of hydrogen fuel and provides convincing reasons to be optimistic for our energy future by using hydrogen.
The book is a highly organized, thoughtful treatment, informative and factual, with hundreds of references and sources, while maintaining reader interest with well chosen illustrations, photos, graphs, and charts. It is a well researched and very readable exposition, complete with a professional quality and style.
It's an excellent pick for any who would understand the technology and applications of hydrogen December 2, 2007
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Any who would understand civilization's energy history and needs should have THE HYDROGEN AGE in their collection, whether it be for an easy college-level introduction or for the general-interest public. Here is a guide to civilization's passage from a carbon to hydrogen era, considering how such an age will foster new developments and how moving to water-based energy offers new hope and alternatives for the continued progression of civilization. It's an excellent pick for any who would understand the technology and applications of hydrogen, written in a manner any lay reader can understand.
Well Rounded and Researched December 3, 2007
Matthew W. Burks (Boulder, CO)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
It is far too common place these days to find books without any intention of providing a well-rounded and well-researched perspective to its readers. As many of us have experienced, it is far too easy to polarize over increasingly divisive issues like energy, its implications and its solutions. There are zealots on both sides of the fence using outdated and often outrageous statistics to bolster their claim for one technology or another; however, The Hydrogen Age does a good job of avoiding this trap. It is optimistic, yet realistic, providing a good sense of what is happening today and the role hydrogen technologies can/will play in our future. Remember that the "Silver Bullet" is a myth. Although there is no single solution, The Hydrogen Age provides excellent insight into one of the tools already being utilizing to meet the developing/developed future energy challenges. - Matthew Burks - President, Hydrogen Energy Center (www.hydrogenenergycenter.org)
This book deserves six stars November 7, 2007
Gregory J. Blencoe (Oak Ridge, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The authors did a fantastic job of writing a book on hydrogen that is thorough and accurate. There is so much misinformation that is spread about hydrogen that it is refreshing to finally read material that covers the issue fairly.
I happen to work for a hydrogen company and have learned a lot about this issue over the past three years. But I can tell you that the level of detail in this book is beyond what I have ever seen. It obviously took many years to write.
Furthermore, the writing style is similar to what you would find in a really good magazine article which makes the book very readable. I also liked all of the pictures the book contained.
Although "The Hydrogen Age" is not likely to get the credit it deserves right now due to a few very vocal and misguided critics, it will get more and more attention as time passes and people realize hydrogen is one of the primary solutions to our energy problems.
Greg Blencoe
CEO, Hydrogen Discoveries
The Hydrogen Age is Here and Now November 12, 2007
M. Hicks (Riverside, CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"The Hydrogen Age" is an exciting illustration of where we are headed in our quest for energy independence. We as a society are so caught up in an environment of scarcity and limitation that we in the general public fail to literally see the "forest for the trees." This book points out there are so many alternatives to solving our energy challenges which are well within our grasp. Petroleum is a wonderfully useful commodity, but is not the be-all or end-all for our energy source. The sources pointed out in this book are unlimited and are not somewhere in the distant future, but are available here and now. We are in need of nothing but the truth and this terrific book shows us how we may accomplish our energy independence. When enough of us are determined to make a change the market place will take care of the doing, and the change will come so quickly we will all wonder why we dallied so long.
This wonderfully researched book is truly a way-shower to the future and should be a must read for the general public and especially for those who are teaching our young people. I am very proud of the authors' dedication to telling the truth about energy and illuminating the prospects for the less developed economies of the world.
I highly recommend this book.
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