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Hydrogen: The Fuel Of The Future - College Essay

Hydrogen: The Fuel Of The Future

By: Json
Why are we as Americans so afraid to change? even if it is a change for the
better? the world has been using oil coal and other petroleum products to power
just about everything that moves for the last 150 years. yet most cars in the
united states only get 10-20 miles a gallon and even the "good" ones can get
only a petty 20-50 miles a gallon. so why do we put up with the inefficiency
when there are far better alternatives out there? Such as hydrogen, which was
discovered hundreds of years ago. Hydrogen has long been known for its explosive
propeties (with air) and abundance in the universe (in other forms i.e. water
on earth, and its form in space is a gas). Hydrogen can do ...

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ways is using a
chemical reaction. Simple chemicals (aluminum,sodium hydroxide, and water) can
be reacted in the home to produce heavy hydrogen to power your furnace or your
hot water heater . No electrical power at all is required. The reaction also
gives off a tremendous amount of heat. Even the waste heat could be captured for
heating the house. The resulting sodium aluminate is harmless and could be
collected at recoiling centers for complete acid/base neutralization. This way
is a simpler way than electrolysis produce hydrogen for heating the home,
because in a automobile it would be harder to do.

Electrolysis is another way to produce hydrogen electronically. It is a way that
I am more familiar with because I do it quite a bit in my room and have done
several experiments with it. Electrolysis will produce a 2:1 ratio of hydrogen
to oxygen out of water. higher voltages will give you faster collection. With a
12-volt battery it took around a half an hour to get a ...

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