Research paper on alternative fuels

For a long time gasoline has dominated our world. It has been only now in the late 20th century to now that new fuels have surfaced to challenge the might of gasoline. One type of alternative energy that can be used instead of gasoline is hydrogen fuel cells. Ever since 2003 when President Bush announced the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative car companies have been trying to develop Hydrogen fuel cell cars that are cost effective and practical. Alone the USA has invested billions of dollars on fuel cell research and development.

Hydrogen fuel cells are practical because it can generate power efficiently and without pollution. Unlike gasoline when it was first used as fuel for cars it had so many pollutants other than CO2. The very first gasoline powered car was made in 1886 with the technology for the internal combustion engine being more than 200 years old. The pollutants of the first car were dangerous, such pollutants being H2O, N2, CO and NO (they are also considered volatile organic compounds). Hydrogen fuel cell technology works similar to a battery where instead holding the charge it creates the charge by combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water.

Hydrogen fuel cells are there for efficient because the only so called pollutant is water. Hydrogen fuel cells are membrane fuel cells that convert hydrogen and oxygen together to make water and during this process it produces electricity so the fuel cells capture the energy created and used to power the car and all its devices. This so called battery has too electrodes an anode (Positive current in) and a cathode (positive current out) separated by a membrane. Each element passes over there corresponding node hydrogen over the anode so it can be separated from H2 to 2H+ so that electr...

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... price for making hydrogen fuel stations being close to 20 million per fuel station they have dropped the price down to 1 million just with this simple decision.

Even to since the time of President Bush till now we have made so much progress with hydrogen fuel cell technologies we still have a long way to go to make hydrogen the ultimate fuel. Clearly car makers have made a great deal of improvements to fuel cell technology and have dealt with the main problems with hydrogen. Even though I couldn’t find anything on how they are planning to ship hydrogen from where they “make” hydrogen to the actual fuel stations. Most likely they are going to have a delivery system much like they have for gasoline which is on the roads and freeways. I personally would chose hydrogen over gasoline any day but I am very poor and I can’t afford a car of such technological achievement.