Questions / Info
Will the hydrogen system work on my car and my diesel?
Our systems are mainly designed for diesel engines.
Can I use a Hydrogen Generator on a Hybrid car?
Sorry, don't bother, they don't play well with others technically.
Do we need a special size for our vehicle?
No, we believe in keeping it simple. We have three systems.
The model # 2512 fits those big 4x4 trucks, delivery trucks
The model # 5012 - 12 volt and The model # 5024 - 24 volt fit those big Rig Simi's.
And yes you can use the larger systems on any diesel just as long as you have enough room.
The larger the system the more hydrogen production and this means more horsepower and better fuel mileage.
If we buy a new vehicle, can we have our hydrogen system moved from our old vehicle, to our new vehicle?
You bet you can ! Just have a qualified mechanic remove the system in the reverse order that it was installed. Then install it on your new rig.
Do we have to use a Certified Mechanic to get the hydrogen system installed ?
No, But our directions that come with our systems must be followed precisely to avoid problems. And it would be a good idea to have an Certified Mechanic do your install. They have been trained on fuel and electrical systems.
Once installed “tuning” is the key for savings, how often do we need to get the system tuned ?
Unlike a tune-up, Our systems should not have to be re-tuned.
Will the installation of the hydrogen system void my manufactures warrantee?
No way , The Magnuson-Moss Act, states that any after market product will not void a manufacturer warrantee unless the manufacturer can prove that product did damage the part in question.
What can I add to the distilled water in my hydrogen system to keep it from freezing in the winter time?
During the winter time if the temperature is going to get below freezing keep system filled to the proper water level.The only exception to this provision is the use of 20% to 50% of denatured alcohol mixed with distilled water to prevent Generator freeze-up during cold weather. Customer is responsible for keeping the system from freezing. It is recommended testing different amounts of denatured alcohol mixed with distilled water at deferent freezing temperatures before adding denatured alcohol to your system.
Is there anything that I will be required to do to maintain the system?
Keep distilled water to the proper water level in the holding container . Your system should use between one pint to one quart of distilled water for every one thousand miles driven depending on outside tempature and amperage applied. Contact us at Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC. if you need to Drain and flush your system. Additional electrolyte may be purchased from Global Hydrogen Solutions (manufacturer) if needed.
14. Systems must be drained after winter use to drain all denatured alcohol from your system. Systems must be filled with new electrolyte that can be purchased from Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC (manufacturer) for summer time use.
What improvement in mileage should I expect ?
Mileage will very depending on mechanical condition of your truck. But you should still see on average of up to 20% to 50% or more increase in mileage.
Do hydrogen boosters work, and do they really boost fuel mileage?
Yes: The addition of Hydrogen and Oxygen gases to an engines air intake will greatly improve the combustion of diesel fuel.
Technology On Hydrogen
Here is a explanation of how our systems work in changing water into Hydrogen and Oxygen ( HHO ). Let’s start by taking a look at water, it should be filtered or distilled and one to two gallons is about the amount you will want to prepare for your HHO generator. Depending on the size of the HHO system you are running. We call it an HHO generator because it produces both Hydrogen and Oxygen simultaneously thru a process called electrolysis.
When water is introduced with electricity [preferably DC] it becomes excited and divides into its primary elements of Hydrogen and Oxygen. Hydrogen and Oxygen are now in a gaseous state from water. The two elements have been split apart from one another into their sub-diatomic molecular state.
It's been said that it takes more energy to produce HHO gases than the energy it releases. It's not true, that's why there are hydrogen generators available. You can produce HHO with as little as 1.24 volts DC and one amp of current. It's not how it's done, but the way the HHO generator is configured to permit a useful output with minimal input power.
What we do is draw off the produced HHO gases by vacuum created by the engine and feed the gasses directly into the engine for combustion purposes. This system is what we call an on demand system, "NOT" a pressurized storage system. The HHO generator only produces what the vehicles engine calls for, nothing more.
Can an engine idle on HHO, absolutely, but to operate a vehicle under normal operating conditions the current technology has not reached that point quite yet. Most users see increases of 20% to 80% average fuel savings.
Here is the process, you start with a little water and a little electrolyte, there are a few different types. You add some DC current, and the H2O becomes H2 & O [we call it HHO]. Then its introduced into the engine air intake by use of engine vacuum. The HHO mixes with fuel and air in the combustion chamber and helps to create a complete burn. Once the mixture is ignited it converts back into H20 [water] vapor as it leaves the exhaust. So you start with water and end up with water. The results are, an odorless exhaust. Lowering emissions to almost 0, the exhaust emissions drop and you produce water vapor from the tailpipe. Why vapor and not water ? Because the hydrocarbon fuel will produce enough heat at combustion to keep the burnt HHO in a water vapor state, and then it will totally condense back into water outside the exhaust system [eliminating any internal corrosion].
Hydroxy technologies also show that hydrogen power can be stored safely by being perfectly inert in water. As a result, hydrogen can be produced on DEMAND from water. This eliminates the need for dangerous hydrogen storage tanks or on board cars or trucks and in any communities wishing to use hydrogen for power. Quote - " Hydrogen-on-demand does not need costly infrastructure to makes cars or trucks safer. " Hydrogen-on-demand " would not only remove the need for costly new hydrogen pipelines and distribution infrastructure. It would also make hydrogen vehicles safer. "The theoretical advantage of on-board generation is that you don't have to muck about with hydrogen storage," says Mike Millikin, who monitors developments in alternative fuels for the Green Car Congress website. A car that doesn't need to carry tanks of flammable, volatile liquid or compressed gas would be much less vulnerable in an accident. "It also potentially offsets the requirements for building up a massive hydrogen production and distribution infrastructure," Millikin says-End quote Mike Millikin.
Quote- Hydrogen-on-demand, whether from water or another source, could address two of the big problems still holding back the wider use of hydrogen as a vehicle fuel: how to store the flammable gas, and how to transport it safely. Today's hydrogen-fueled cars rely on stocks of gas produced in centralized plants and distributed via refueling stations in either liquefied or compressed form. Neither is ideal. The liquefaction process eats up to 40 per cent of the energy content of the stored hydrogen; while the energy density of the gas, even when compressed, is so low it is hard to see how it can ever be used to fuel a normal car.-End quote new scientist magazine.
This also shows that water can be used as a fuel. The public need not to be fooled into thinking that a hydrogen economy needs to be assimilated by the usage of the now redundant production of dangerous hydrogen storage in tanks, and or produced by none renewable methods. Add to this suppressive fallacy; there have since surfaced HIGHER efficient ways of producing hydroxy technology since 1918.
Why don't the auto builders and other big corporations use this basic technology ?
If the car and truck manufactures were to start producing hydrogen on demand systems on all new cars and trucks it would reduce the profits made in the oil industry drastically. Basically stated everyone connected to the oil industry would loose money. But it would be a very good move to help the environment.
Installation and Maintenance
Global Hydrogen Solutions systems take just a few hours for an average install. The same system is just as easy to remove from your vehicle when you sell it and reinstall on another vehicle. Maintenance amounts to topping off the holding tank with distilled water (should only be a few ounces depending how many miles driven) each time you fill your fuel tank. Just carry a bottle of distilled water in your vehicle.
Product Installation
1. Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC. products must be properly installed in order to function as designed. It is recommended that a certified mechanic perform the installation. Every effort has been made to provide detailed installation instructions. These directions can be found on line on our website and must be followed conscientiously to avoid installation errors that could cause a unit to malfunction. This warranty does not cover non-performance of units improperly installed. The installer is responsible to the customer for his/her installation and for correcting an improper installation.
2. Global Hydrogen Solutions products and components are pretested when shipped and warranted to perform as designed and are included in the warranty duration shown above. No shipment of defective materials will be accepted by the company with out a MRA (Material Return Authorization) number. You must notify Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC. within five (5) days of your receipt of any damaged or defective merchandise caused from shipping. Damaged parts caused from an improper installation will not be warranted and or replaced. Damaged parts caused from an improper installation will be replaced and paid for by the installer, including all shipping charges.
3. In the unlikely event there are missing parts or components that should have been included in an installation kit, those missing parts or components will be shipped by priority us-mail upon notification from Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC.
4. All necessary parts and components required for routine installation in or near the engine compartment of a customer vehicle have been included in each Global Hydrogen Solutions product installation kit. The cost of any extra wire, tubing, connectors or other miscellaneous parts and components required for an installation, is the responsibility of the customer.
5. We do not accept any returns, exchanges or grant any refunds under any circumstances, including but not limited to, customer negligence, buyers regret, buyers remorse, installation difficulty, insufficient mounting space, individual MPG results not as expected, never installed, unused units, or just simply changed your mind; except as specified above regarding a manufacturer's defect which is covered under our warranty
6. WARRANTIE TO CUSTOMERS. Distributor shall indemnify and hold Manufacturer harmless from all liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, arising out of Distributor's failure to comply with its obligations under this Agreement. Systems purchased from Manufacturer are warranted directly by Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC, except, customer complaints concerned with installation problems or product defects must be processed by the distributor/agent who will then work with Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC. to obtain replacement parts or repairs. The certified Mechanic is solely responsible for correcting malfunctions due to improper installation and or replacing parts.
TWO YEAR WARRANTY -- This product is warranted to be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 24 months from date of purchase, provided, product was installed correctly and routine maintenance was conducted and recorded by your Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC distributor. And used under normal operating procedures. If this product is deemed defective durning the warranted time period, after examination by the manufacturer / distributor, the manufacturer / distributor, at their sole discretion, has the option of replacing the entire system, or replacing necessary individual defective components with new and/or re-manufactured replacements parts, when proof of purchase and maintenance is provided. This warranty does not cover cosmetic damage, damage due to acts of God, accident, misuse, abuse, negligence, or modifications to the original product. This warranty is invalid if the system has been altered or disassembled or reverse-engineered. This warranty does not cover damage due to improper operation, vehicle accidents, or improper installation.
At Global Hydrogen Solutions, all our Systems are under a two year Manufacturer Warranty
• Warranty information
• How to get support on our web page. ( www.GlobalHydrogenSolutionsLLC.com )
• Preparing the system for return shipment and how to obtain a MRA number.
• If you have any problems with your hydrogen system, refer to our website and review the documentation that came with your system.
• If unable to find the answers you need in the online installation manual for your product, you can contact your distributor or us directly.
• Contact your distributor or customer support at ghsceo@gmail.com to obtain MRA number and Shipping 
information and instructions.
information and instructions. Warranty Statement & Information
Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC.
This warranty does not cover products that have been remanufactured, reverse-engineered, misused, or tampered with in any way after purchase.
Extent of Limited Warranty
1. Manufacturer warrants to the end-user (customer) that the Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC products specified above will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for the duration specified above, which duration begins on the date of purchase by the customer.
2. Global Hydrogen Solutions limited warranty covers only those defects that arise as a result of normal use of the product, and does not cover any other problems, including those that arise as a result of improper maintenance, improper installation or modification; the use of alternative parts or supplies not provided or supported by Global Hydrogen Solutions operation outside the product's specifications; unauthorized modification or misuse.
3. If product failure or damage is attributable to the use of a non acumen part, Global Hydrogen Solutions will charge its standard time and materials charges to service the product for the particular failure or damage.
4. If Global Hydrogen Solutions receives, during the applicable warranty period, notice of a defect in any product, which is covered by this warranty, the manufacturer shall either repair or replace the product, at Global Hydrogen Solutions option.
5. The manufacturer has the right to repair or replace, as applicable, a defective part, which is covered by this warranty, Global Hydrogen Solutions shall, within a reasonable time after being notified of the defect, have the choice to replace or repair a defective part as long as the defect is reported to Global Hydrogen Solutions within the Warranty Period.
6. Global Hydrogen Solutions shall have no obligation to repair, replace, or process a refund until the customer returns the defective product.
7. Any replacement product may be either new or like new, provided that it has functionality at least equal to that of the product being replaced.
8. Global Hydrogen Solutions products may contain remanufactured parts, components, or materials equivalent to new in performance.
9. Global Hydrogen Solutions Limited Warranty Statement is valid in any country where the covered product is distributed by Global Hydrogen Solutions. Contracts for additional warranty services, such as on-site service, may be available from any authorized Global Hydrogen Solutions service facility in countries where the product is distributed by Global Hydrogen Solutions.
10. Global Hydrogen Solutions recommends that the customer retain the original packaging in which the product was received. In the event a return for repair of the product is required, use the original packaging to prevent product damage during shipment.
11. The expense of return postage or shipping from a customer to and from Global Hydrogen Solutions shall be the responsibility of the customer. If applicable, Global Hydrogen Solutions will pay postage or shipping costs to return a warranted replacement or repaired unit to the customer as long as it is within the warranty time frame. Repaired units will be returned to fulfill the remainder of the unit's original warranty duration.
12. Global Hydrogen Solutions systems are built to operate using only distilled water and our supplied (at time of sale) electrolyte. In accordance with supplied instructions. The use of lye, other electrolytes, vinegar or substances other than distilled water or mineral water in accordance with included instructions, is strictly prohibited and will void this warranty.
13. Additional electrolyte may be purchased from Global Hydrogen Solutions (manufacturer) if needed. The only exception to this provision is the use of 50% of denatured alcohol mixed with distilled water to prevent Generator freeze-up during cold weather. Customer is responsible for keeping the system from freezing. It is recommended testing different amounts of denatured alcohol mixed with distilled water at deferent freezing temperatures before adding denatured alcohol to your system.
14. Systems must be drained after winter use to drain all denatured alcohol from your system. Systems must be filled with new electrolyte that can be purchased from Global Hydrogen Solutions (manufacturer) for summer time use.
Limitations of Warranty
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY LOCAL LAW, NEITHER GLOBAL HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS LLC, THE MANUFACTURER OR DISTRIBUTORS NOR ITS THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS MAKES ANY OTHER WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ACCIDENTAL DAMAGES TO A CUSTOMER VEHICLE DURING OPPERATION OR THE INSTALLATION PROCESS, IS NOT COVERED BY THIS WARRANTY OR BY GLOBAL HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS LLC.
Limitations of Liability
To the extent allowed by law, the remedies provided in this Warranty Statement are the customer's sole and exclusive remedies.
TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, EXCEPT FOR THE OBLIGATIONS SPECIFICALLY SET FORTH IN THIS WARRANTY STATEMENT, IN NO EVENT SHALL Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC, THE MANUFACTURER OR DISTRIBUTORS OR ITS THIRD PARTY SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY AND WHETHER ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Local Law
1. This Warranty Statement gives the customer specific legal rights. The customer may also have other rights, which vary from state to state in the United States, from province to province in Canada, and from country to country elsewhere in the world.
2. To the extent that this Warranty Statement is inconsistent with local law, this Warranty Statement shall be deemed modified to be consistent with such local law. Under such local law, certain disclaimers and limitations of this Warranty Statement may not apply to the customer. For example, some states in the United States, as well as some governments outside the United States (including provinces in Canada), may preclude the disclaimers and limitations in this Warranty Statement from limiting the statutory rights of a consumer (e.g., the United Kingdom); otherwise restrict the ability of a manufacturer to enforce such disclaimers or limitations; or grant the customer additional warranty rights, specify the duration of implied warranties which the manufacturer cannot disclaim, or allow limitations on the duration of implied warranties.
3. THE TERMS IN THIS WARRANTY STATEMENT, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT LAWFULLY PERMITTED, DO NOT EXCLUDE, RESTRICT, OR MODIFY, AND ARE IN ADDITION TO, THE MANDATORY STATUTORY RIGHTS APPLICABLE TO THE SALE OF GLOBAL HYDROGEN SOLUTIONS LLC PRODUCTS TO SUCH CUSTOMERS.
Thank you for taking time for considering our Hydrogen on demand System. If you are completely satisfied with the performance and the savings it provides, please feel free to tell others about our Hydrogen on demand Systems. Only after you have had the opportunity to evaluate your system for yourself.
DISCLAIMER
Global Hydrogen Solutions LLC. and all of our distributors are offering/selling our systems / products AS EXPERIMENTAL ITEMS ONLY; IT PRODUCES LARGE AMOUNTS OF HYDROGEN DEPENDING ON VOLTAGE AND AMPERAGE. NEVER ATEMPT TO MODIFY THE SYSTEM IN ANY WAY.
MANUFACTURE AND OR SELLER IS NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY REASON AFTER THIS PRODUCT LEAVES OUR POSSESSION.
BUYER IS AT THEIR OWN RISK
This is a Prototype Hydrogen Generator Cell.
DO NOT install inside the passenger compartment of your vehicle under any circumstances.
GlobalHydrogenSolutionsLLC.com is our home of the hydrogen on demand systems located in Surprise Arizona, USA.
We will not be held responsible for ignorance, neglect, or misuse of our HHO cells.
Facts That Every Citizen Should Know about Hydrogen !!
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Hydrogen can be produced from water, sewage, garbage, landfill accumulations, agricultural biomass, paper product wastes and many other waste streams that contain hydrogen-bearing compounds.
Hydrogen can be used as a clean burning, non-polluting fuel in virtually every application where other fuels are used today.
Because hydrogen is pollution free, small personal or local power plants can be designed to utilize much of the energy we now throw away. Co-generation (including Combined Heat and Power “CHP” Systems) fueled by hydrogen can at least double energy utilization compared to present practices.
These power plants could be mass-produced so that the cost per kilowatt of capacity will be substantially less than that of large conventional power plants.
All fuels need air (oxygen) for combustion. Hydrogen is the only common fuel that is not chemically bound to carbon; therefor when hydrogen burns in air it produces only heat energy, water and possibly trace amounts of oxides of nitrogen. Water and oxides of nitrogen produced by thunderstorms are natural in our atmosphere.
When hydrocarbon fuels (coal, oil, natural gas, propane, wood) burn they may create serious pollutants like carbon monoxide (a poisonous gas which is produced by incomplete combustion) carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas), an extensive list of complex hydrocarbon chemicals and quantities of particulate matter including carcinogens.
Hydrogen is the only fuel whose production and end use can both contribute directly to eliminating many of our most insufferable environmental, economic, and health problems.
The Solar Hydrogen Economy will never run out of energy to produce energy-intensive goods and services and can thus provide anti-inflationery benefits and full employment opportunities.
As a gas or a liquid, hydrogen can easily be transported, stored and ultimately it can be used in every application where fossil fuels are used today. This makes hydrogen an ideal, non-polluting energy carrier.
Unlike electricity, whose production as a secondary energy medium must be juggled among expensive central power plants to accommodate peak usage periods, hydrogen can be transported and stored for industrial and domestic needs and to quickly make electricity at virtually any time.
It is less expensive to move hydrogen across the continent as a compressed gas by pipeline than an equal amount of electrical energy by the electric grid.
Subterranean pipelines are far less susceptible to damage by ice storms, tornados, hurricanes and vandalism than electricity grids.
Liquid hydrogen is safer than oil and an economical choice for moving energy across the oceans.
Renewable Hydrogen could be cost-effectively produced at 75 cents per gallon equivalent of gasoline (GGE). This estimate is based upon large-scale extraction of hydrogen from biomass wastes or solar thermal extraction techniques utilizing large parabolic solar concentrators called Gensets. Solar Dish Gensets hold the world efficiency record for converting solar energy to electricity.
Burning hydrogen does not contribute to the Greenhouse Effect, stratospheric ozone depletion, or acid rain. Transition to a hydrogen energy distribution system could restore the atmosphere to natural conditions prevailing before these anomalies became serious problems.
Hydrogen can be stored and supplied through the same pipeline network that now supplies natural gas. Depleted natural gas fields and similar geological formations could also be utilized for storing hydrogen.
Over 400 cities once used hydrogen in a mixture called “town gas” for illumination, cooking, and heating before pipelines were established for delivering natural gas from oil and gas fields. Natural gas was cheaper because it was subsidized and came from the ground as a pressurized gas that required little or no preparation for market.
Hydrogen is naturally produced by plants and animals. Hydrogen is not toxic.
Existing automobiles can be economically converted to burn hydrogen fuel.
To improve air quality some states have set zero emission standards for cars. A vehicle converted to operate on hydrogen easily meets this standard and can actually improve upon it by cleaning the air through which it travels by reducing atmospheric concentrations of carbon monoxide, diesel soot, tire particles and unburned hydrocarbons by converting these pollutants into carbon dioxide and water. This air cleaning capability provides a Minus Emissions Vehicle (MEV).
A special class of “MEV” is a vehicle that uses hydrogen made from renewable resources. It is called Renewable Energy Vehicle - Minus Emissions or "REV-ME."
MEV engines using hydrogen will last much longer and start faster in any weather.
The lubricating oil in a MEV engine will remain clean for extended periods of time. There are no sulfur or carbon compounds or particulates to degrade the engine oil.
Hydrogen is the best way to power future fuel cell electric automobiles or existing vehicles that have internal combustion engines.
Hydrogen fuel cells utilize the energy of a reaction between hydrogen and oxygen, which is converted directly and continuously into electrical energy for electric vehicle propulsion. Hydrogen batteries or fuel cells continue to produce electricity as long as hydrogen is supplied for the process of converting it into water and producing electricity.
Another advantage of a hydrogen battery or fuel cell is that the device also produces clean, potable water, which is currently used on manned spacecraft and could also be useful in solving critical drinking water problems wherever potable water shortages exist.
One kilogram of hydrogen when combined with oxygen will make nine kilograms of water. Therefore a hydrogen power plant could make valuable quantities of high quality water in addition to producing electricity.
Presently Civilization depends upon annually burning over one million years’ of fossil coal, oil and natural gas accumulations.
The estimated total petroleum reserves in the earth's crust is about one trillion barrels. Oil consumption is at 25 billion barrels per year and increasing at 1-1/2% per year. At current rates of consumption, measured against known reserves, there is only a 30 year supply of oil in the Earth's crust. Even if the reserve estimate were doubled it is a moral imperative that we take immediate action to develop a sustainable Solar Hydrogen economy.
Our current energy system is seriously inadequate in terms of its ability to meet increasing demand far into the future.
A transition to a hydrogen energy system will be the most significant, ongoing job creation opportunity ever conceived for both blue and white collar workers.
Hydrogen can be the safest of all fuels. Gaseous hydrogen is 14-times lighter than air, therefore it rapidly disperses into the atmosphere in the event of an accidental release. This is not true of most other fuels. Other fuels have a much greater "dangerous time" until they are dispersed from the location of accidental release.
Hydrogen is already used to produce countless products and to enhance many industrial processes.
The U.S. produces more than 100 billion cubic feet per year of hydrogen for industry and for the space program.
The largest user of hydrogen is the petroleum industry for converting crude oil into gasoline, fertilizers, and hundreds of chemicals.
No one sustained hydrogen burns in the 1937 Hindenburg accident. Seven million cubic feet of hydrogen, equal in volume to a structure three football fields in size and 49 ft. in height, burned in less than one minute. However, diesel fuel that was stored for the propulsion engines fell to the ground and continued to burn for many hours.
If liquid hydrogen is spilled it will very rapidly evaporate, leaving no pollution or toxic residue.
Hydrogen can be stored at room temperatures as a hydride (hydrogen chemically combined with a metallic element) under little or no pressure and in a volume that is less than if it were a super-cold liquid.
Carbon is a valuable by-product of separating hydrogen from hydrocarbon compounds. Over $5.00 worth of carbon products can be extracted from a gallon of gasoline. The hydrogen left over could be used in cars that clean the air of pollution caused by those vehicles using hydrocarbon fuels. In the process; pollution, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are transformed into carbon dioxide and water.
Carbon is the most versatile of all elements. With it we can make materials that are lighter than aluminum, stronger than steel, and that conduct heat or electricity better than copper.
About 74% of our landfills are hydrocarbons that can be converted into non-polluting hydrogen fuel and superior building materials.
It is not rational to burn petrocarbons and deny future generations their opportunity to utilize fossil hydrocarbon reserves to make plastics, synthetic fabrics, lubricants, solvents, and carbon-fiber reinforced products that are stronger than steel and countless other new products that are yet to be developed.
Hydrogen packs more chemical energy in a pound for pound comparison than with any other fuel. Two pounds of hydrogen provides as much energy as a gallon of gasoline. About 2.2 gallons of water can supply enough hydrogen to replace one gallon of gasoline.
Hydrogen can be used more efficiently than gasoline or other fossil fuels.
A Solar-Hydrogen powered heat pump could cool your house in summer and heat it in winter.
In many ways Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Canada and Japan are leading in research and development of hydrogen fuel and its applications. Mercedes and BMW have experimental fleets of hydrogen-powered automobiles. Japanese automakers are testing hydrogen-powered cars.
Using a small portion of our total land area, we can manufacture enough Solar-Hydrogen to supply the entire energy requirement of the United States.
The United States could significantly transition to renewable hydrogen fuel by the year 2020.
Solar hydrogen could make the United States fuel-independent and pollution free for as far into the future as the sun will shine.
Development of hydrogen energy systems would protect us from a possible national security disaster precipitated by a geopolitical upheaval beyond our control.
Hydrogen could represent a lucrative cash crop for farmers in areas where there is abundant wind, solar radiation, geothermal, or biomass resources. Many farmers could profit financially by converting biomass and animal wastes into hydrogen through a process of bio-remediation (utilizing micro-organisms to break down unwanted or excess materials).
Using solar thermal electricity to make hydrogen is 30 times more efficient than the best green plants' photosynthesis process. Earth's human population of 7 billion cannot wait for another "dinosaur age" to replenish fossil fuels.
Introducing hydrogen (2%-20%) into internal combustion engines, that are currently using fossil fuels like gasoline, diesel, or natural gas, increases the efficiency of combustion, improves mileage and reduces pollutants to a remarkable degree.
A substantial part of the expense in building and operating a fossil fuel power plant is devoted to disposing of heat from wasted energy. Most conventional power plants throw away 60% to 80% of the energy that the customer pays for in addition to the high cost of building and operating “condensers” to reject very large amounts of heat into the environment.
A conventional nuclear or fossil-fueled central power plant can deliver only about one-third of the energy in the fuel in the form of electricity. The remaining energy is wasted by heating the environment. A hydrogen-fuel plant can deliver 70% or more of the energy as a combination of "co-generated" heat and electricity products in a pollution free application.
Implementation of a worldwide solar hydrogen energy system will be tantamount to a Second, Clean Industrial Revolution or the Renewable Resources Revolution.
Did you know that any of the following states could eventually be richer than Saudi Arabia by making and selling Solar-Hydrogen? California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, New Mexico, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, or Texas could provide endless supplies of Solar-Hydrogen for the U.S. and other countries.
Hydrogen is the simplest, lightest and most abundant chemical element in the universe.
On our planet hydrogen is abundant but it is usually combined with other elements. When combined with oxygen it is called water; when combined with carbon it is called a hydrocarbon.
Hydrogen is colorless, odorless, tasteless and non-toxic.
To make hydrogen available for use as a fuel, energy is required to separate it from other elements. Solar energy is the most abundant available source of energy on earth. Solar energy reaches the Earth at a rate that is 18,000 times the energy consumed by human activities and is an ideal source for separating hydrogen from other elements.
Solar hydrogen fuel can be produced to supply a clean sustainable supply of fuel for virtually all human energy needs, FOREVER.
Forest lands, that are being decimated for heating and cooking purposes by people in developing nations, can be preserved by utilizing hydrogen as fuel.
Most developing nations are endowed with sufficient wind, water or sun power to make hydrogen for villages and where appropriate on a large scale for urban areas.
Strip mining coal, that defaces and environmentally destroys huge areas, could be eliminated by using Solar Hydrogen.
Vast quantities of hydrocarbon seepage from tank farms, pipelines and 200,000 gasoline service station tanks that now pollute our soil and aquifers would be virtually eliminated by a transition to hydrogen fuel.
Proven technologies are available to make, store, and use solar hydrogen.
Hydrogen produced by bioremediation in China or India is chemically and physically the same as hydrogen produced by wind power on a Nebraska farm. Hydrogen can therefore be used as a universal medium of energy exchange.
Pollutants from reliance on finite fossil fuels and nuclear energy are ultimately carried by the atmosphere and river systems to the oceans where they affect phytoplankton (that produce 80% of the earth's oxygen), flora and fauna of all kinds, particularly those marine species that comprise the ocean fisheries upon which nearly all populations rely for a basic food source.
Energy providers could reduce their costs of operation by a very substantial margin through elimination of most exploration, drilling, mining, milling, refining and other cost-intensive practices. These firms could reap even larger profits than they do now by actively participating in the transition to hydrogen energy systems.
Burning any fossil fuel creates pollutants that cause millions of people to suffer from lung, respiratory, and allergic types of illness. Burning hydrogen will eliminate much suffering and productivity losses and would substantially reduce health care costs.
If done to optimize economies of scale, many methods of producing hydrogen will be cost competitive with fossil fuels or nuclear energy.
Importing crude oil costs the United States two billion dollars every week. Using hydrogen in place of oil could reduce our trade deficit by billions of dollars. Even larger savings are available by eliminating the large military expenditures required to provide deliveries of foreign oil to the U.S.
Socially relevant costs of producing and bringing any fuel to market must also include such factors as pollution and other short and long-term environmental costs as well as direct and indirect health costs. When these factors are taken into consideration, together with its initial cost economy-of-scale competitiveness, hydrogen is surely the most logical choice for a worldwide energy carrier.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted two new truck rules in December, 2008 that will significantly reduce diesel fuel consumption and better protect public health and the environment.
California Diesel Truck Rules
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) adopted two new truck rules in December, 2008 that will significantly reduce diesel fuel consumption and better protect public health and the environment. One rule, a first-of-its-kind regulation addressing truck global warming pollution, will significantly reduce heat-trapping emissions. The other rule, which addresses smog-forming and particulate pollution, will markedly improve California air quality, saving thousands of lives over the next decade.
Truck Global Warming Rule:
Cutting pollution,
Saving on fuel consumption
CARB's rule aims to boost heavy-duty-truck fuel efficiency to reduce their global warming emissions. The rule targets the most common type of truck on the highway: a 53-foot-long trailer pulled by a large tractor. The rule would save 1 billion gallons of diesel fuel annually across the country in 2020. The up-front cost of installing
fuel efficient technology on tractors and trailers would be offset by reduced fuel costs over time. The new rule requires both new trucks and those already on the road to add aerodynamic features and more fuel-efficient tires. Such improvements will boost fuel-efficiency by 8 percent, according to a recent UCS report, Delivering the Green. Additionally, the regulation requires sleep-in cabs in new tractors to meet Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) SmartWay specifications. The SmartWay program is similar to the voluntary EnergyStar program for consumer appliances, but it focuses on tractors with sleep-in cabs. SmartWay-certified tractors are typically 2 percent more fuel-efficient than standard ones. The new rule applies to new tractors and trailers starting with the 2011 model year. Truck owners will have to upgrade tractors model year 2010 and older with more efficient tires by 2012, and phase in these upgrades over a six-year period.
could achieve additional global warming The rule's tire requirement applies only to van trailers that are at least 53 feet long and the tractors that pull them. UCS estimates these tractor-trailers account for 60 percent of all tractor-trailer miles driven in the state each year. That means that the remaining 40 percent of all tractor-trailer miles, driven by tractors that pull flat beds, tankers and shorter trailers, could still benefit from tire improvements. • Additional reductions from new tractors and trailers, which offer the greatest potential for
cutting pollution and fuel consumption, are available. If CARB required a full set of aerodynamic trailer features and tire upgrades for new trucks, 30 percent more pollution could be eliminated. These improvements would pay for themselves over time and result in an estimated $30,000 in net savings over the truck's first eight
years in service, the average time such a vehicle would be used for long-distance trips.
• Expanding requirements to cover straight trucks, typical delivery trucks with permanently attached
tractors and trailers –would also increase overall benefits.
Smog and Particulate Rule:
Preventing thousands of deaths,
Saving California billions in health costs.
CARB's rule controlling smog-forming emissions and particulate matter targets all diesel-fueled heavy-duty trucks operating on California's roads, including typical big-rig trucks and school buses. The rule surpasses the EPA's emissions reductions requirements. Under the rule, most vehicles will need a diesel particulate filter
by 2014. Such filters would cut particulate matter more than 95 percent and reduce emissions to levels
currently achieved by today's new trucks. CARB's rule phases in between 2011 and 2023 and applies to any diesel truck heavier than 14,000 pounds traveling in the state. It also requires school buses to be equipped with
particulate filters, which would better protect young children. Additionally, the rule targets smog-forming
emissions from trucks, which account for a third of such pollution in the state. Truck owners will
Continued California Diesel Truck Rules New Opportunities to Improve Public Health, Reduce Global Warming Pollution CARB estimates the rule would prevent 9,400 premature deaths and thousands of hospitalizations for
heart and lung disease associated with poor air quality over the next 15 years. CARB estimates the new smog and particulate rule will cost $5.5 billion over the next 15 years, but it calculates that the benefits in reduced
hospitalizations, asthma attacks and other health problems would be between $48 billion and $68 billion over the same period. Acknowledging that some truck owners would need financial assistance to meet the new standards, the state plans to establish a loan program.
