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6. Here's one, it's from 2012 but still very relevant and very, very good
Wed Apr 3, 2024, 02:45 PM
Apr 2024
Solar Hydrogen: Fuel of the Future – 15 June 2012

by Mario Pagliaro & Athanasios G Konstandopoulos (notice it's not by Americans!)



Renewable hydrogen produced using solar energy to split water is the energy fuel of the future. Accelerated innovation in both major domains of solar energy (photovoltaics and concentrated solar power) has resulted in the rapid fall of the solar electricity price, opening the route to a number of practical applications using solar H2. New thermochemical water splitting using concentrated solar power (CSP) as well as CSP coupled to electrolysis has the potential to convert and store solar energy into clean hydrogen using a tiny fraction of the world's desert area to meet our present and future global energy needs.

Photovoltaics, in turn, has the versatility required for supporting the creation of a distributed energy generation infrastructure in developing countries especially now that the price of PV solar electricity has fallen to unprecedented low levels. In all these cases, solar H2 will be used to store energy and release it on demand either for fuel cells (to power homes and boats) or internal combustion engines and turbines (for powering cars, trucks and in thermoelectric power units).

This book on solar hydrogen is unique in its field and is a timely treatment of a hot topic in industry, academic, political and environmental circles. With reference to many examples as well as to new technologies, this accessible book provides insight into a crucial technology for our common future and numerous colour pictures contribute to the book's readability. Written by experts in the field who are engaged at the forefront of research, the book supplies readers with last minute insight from the frontiers of research. The book will be of interest to Politicians, solar PV companies, hydrogen and sustainability researchers, environmentalists, managers in the automotive and nautical industries, undergraduate and graduate students in physics, chemistry, energy and materials science.
https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Hydrogen-Mario-Pagliaro/dp/1849731950

Some deep searching and you can find this online for free as a PDF


The book is fantastic at detailing the history of hydrogen. For example, many people say H2 embrittlement prevents the piping of H2 - while ignoring that before natural gas (1960's) there was town gas, which was 50% hydrogen. This book shows that some of that exact same piping still exists.

Those same naysayers know nothing about this either

Air Products’ U.S. Gulf Coast hydrogen network Enhanced reliability from the world’s largest hydrogen pipeline



The new, 180-mile pipeline expands our Gulf Coast hydrogen supply network to more than 600 miles, stretching from the Houston Ship Channel in Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana
PDF: https://microsites.airproducts.com/h2-pipeline/pdf/air-products-us-gulf-coast-hydrogen-network-datasheet.pdf


The United States economy is tied to the PetroDollar (Thanks to Dick and Hank) so it's understandable that Hydrogen wouldn't be very popular with those who want to keep the status quo. But that isn't true for a nation like China. Hence the vitriol and hate for H2 (and China) with 'Murikans! It's amusing, but depressing. With any luck at all I'll be out of the US soon. Finished. It's become a hell hole. I'm not here for silly upvotes anyway.

Search in Youtube also, you can find videos like this

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