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  Documenting the efforts of innovators and visionaries working on ways to promote sustainable growth and development.

• Alan Weisman

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  Can Hydrogen Fuel the United States?

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  Alan Weisman

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  Can Hydrogen Fuel the United States?

  Although scientists and engineers have shown that hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, is a clean substitute for fossil fuels, politicians and big business may never be ready to switch.

  During the next 25 years, as developing nations like China and India industrialize, world energy consumption is expected to double. With oil and gas supplies diminishing even faster, many scientists believe that hydrogen – the most abundant element, comprising three-fourths of the mass of the universe – will be the energy carrier for the future.

  Although scientists and engineers have shown that hydrogen is a clean substitute for fossil fuels, politicians and big business may never be ready to switch.

  Date

  August 1995

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  All Things Considered

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  Themes: Economy, Environment, Technology

  Regions: North America

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Alan Weisman

  Other Tags: hydrogen, fuel

• Alan Weisman, Chris Brookes

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  The Great Hydrogen Car Race

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  Alan Weisman, Chris Brookes

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  The Great Hydrogen Car Race

  While German automakers race to produce the world’s first pollution-free, hydrogen-powered car, the world’s largest consumer market for automobiles, the U.S. remains stuck in a Faustian bargain with fossil fuels. From 1994.

  The automobile is one of the miracles of the 20th century, giving us unprecedented freedom and power over time and space. But like the legendary Dr. Faustus, this power could one day turn on us, as the poisonous curses of pollution and global warming undermine the society that cars have made possible.

  In Germany, where haze straight from hell or Los Angeles often chokes the Rhine valley and the autobahns, scientists and automakers have been racing to save us from this dilemma by designing a car that would run on pollution-free hydrogen.

  Date

  May 1994

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  Marketplace

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  Themes: Technology, Environment

  Regions: North America, Europe

  Media: Audio

  Other Contributors: Alan Weisman

  Other Tags: hydrogen, fuel, car