Energy of Hydrogen

Further rapid development of modern power generation and transport industries will inevitably bring our civilization to environmental and energy crisis of unprecedented scale. Sooner or later, mineral resources of the planet will be exhausted. Depletion of existing fossil fuel reserves urges the industrial countries to put forth maximum efforts to  find alternative renewable sources of clean energy. Hydrogen energy is one of the most promising options for alternative power engineering. It can replace conventional fuel for transport and for thermal and electric energy production. Hydrogen, being practically inexhaustible source of energy, may save our world.

On the one hand hydrogen can be burnt down providing thermal energy and ordinary water as waste products. On the other hand obtaining electromotive force hydrogen can be used as one of oxidizing agents in the so-called fuel cells. Fuel Cell is an electrochemical device in which the energy of fuel and oxidant continuously supplied to electrodes is directly converted into electricity without low-efficient combustion process. As there is no heat/power conversion in these devices, their energy efficiency is much higher than that of traditional power units, and can reach 90%

Researchers and engineers are looking for ways to introduce hydrogen fuel and electrochemical generators on the basis of Fuel Cells in the most power-consuming industries including transport vehicles. Probably use of hydrogen as a principal source of power will create an absolutely new hydrogen economy. The results of this scientific and technological breakthrough can be compared to such revolutionary changes in the development of our civilization as those provided by electric power, internal combustion engine, chemistry and oil chemistry, information technologies and telecommunications. About 1000 companies, industrial groups, research labs pursue researches in different areas of hydrogen energy such as: Hydrogen Production, Hydrogen Storage, Hydrogen Delivery, Hydrogen Consumption.