The Hydrogen Economy Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs (2004) / Chapter Skim
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10. Major Messages of the Report
10. Major Messages of the Report
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With a new national commitment, our scientists and system must be cost-competitive, it must be safe and appealengineers will overcome obstacles to taking these cars from ing to the consumer, and it would preferably offer advanlaboratory to showroom so that the first car driven by a child born today could be powered by hydrogen, and pollution- tages from the perspectives of energy security and CO2 emis sions. Specifically for the transportation sector, dramatic free."2 This committee believes that investigating and con progress in the development of fuel cells, storage devices, ducting RD&D activities to determine whether a hydrogen and distribution systems is especially critical.
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energy system if the required cost reductions can be achieved only by tar- successful market penetration of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles geted fundamental and exploratory research on hydrogen is achieved. In order to analyze these impacts, the committee production by photobiological, photochemical, and thin-film posited that fuel cell vehicle technology would be developed solar processes.
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3The words "hydrogen program" refer collectively to the programs concerned with hydrogen production, distribution, and use within DOE's Office Fuel Cell Vehicle Technology of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, Office of Science, and Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology. The committee observes that the federal government has There is no single program with this title.
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Similarly, since resilience to terrorist atof developing PEM fuel cells for automotive applications tack has become a major performance criterion for any infraare large, and the solutions to overcoming these challenges structure system, the design of future hydrogen infrastrucare uncertain. ture systems may need to consider protection against such The committee estimates that the fuel cell system, includ- risks.
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Distributed production of hydrogen seems most likely to be done with small-scale natural gas Carbon Dioxide-Free Hydrogen reformers or by electrolysis of water; however, new concepts in distributed production could be developed over this The long timescale associated with the development of vitime period. able hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen storage provides a time window for a more intensive DOE program to develop hydroRecommendation 10-5.
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The Department of Energy should Energy, Science, and Technology; and the Office of Science. tighten the coupling of its efforts on hydrogen and fuel cell The committee believes that, overall, the production, distritechnology with the DOE Office of Fossil Energy's pro bution, and dispensing portion of the program is probably grams on carbon capture and storage (sequestration)
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A hydrogen economy will require a number ceive increased emphasis: of technological and conceptual breakthroughs. The Department of Energy program calls for increased funding in some · Fuel cell vehicle development.
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