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Multi-year investigation into how
the World can develop policies to facilitate human adaptation to
the energy demand crisis and reduce geo-political
tension.
Initiative,
to be managed by Pilgrims Publishing Technology Policy
Program. It will encompass a broad spectrum of issues
affecting all energy sectors and all levels of government;
international, national, including personal and public
transport and information systems.
The
future is " Energy On Demand "
technology which can
produce hydrogen from water or a hydrogen rich chemical, as
the fuel cell needs it. You only create as much gaseous
hydrogen as the application needs at any one point in time.
It’s not like having a compressed cylinder of gas on board a
device. Hydrogen
is in water and can be easily extracted with a low power DC voltage. |
Fuel
Cell Stack for Electricity On-Demand
Water
- Hydrogen and Oxygen (H2O) - Extracted
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New
safety standards to manage the risks
associated with the production and storage of hydrogen - as well as the role of
government in areas like education and technology
transfer i.e. the safety risks will be a key focus of the Pilgrims
Publishing study team initiative.
Initial
funding for the research will total nearly £25 million and will be
provided by both private foundations and EU Governments.
As
we work to construct policies that can speed energy change, it is only practical to examine ways to assist
such shifting global energy environments. Initiative
will build on our already substantial leadership in energy and
power
understanding, and will establish Pilgrims
Publishing as a global center on energy adaptation research
and design.
Exchangeable
Membrane Fuel Cell
The
Exchangeable Membrane Fuel Cell Kit is specifically
designed for global classroom instruction and ease of
use.
The
Kit can be disassembled and reassembled in a manner
that is perfect for students and teachers looking for
a "hands on" experience with the energy
technology of the future. Add hydrogen education to
your science curriculum with this new energy fuel cell
kit.
The
Kit is capable of performing experiments such as
current-voltage characteristics, efficiency
calculations, power curves, and the demonstrating of
the great mans ideas - Faraday's Law.
Experiments
include the ability to demonstrate the performance of
a fuel cell with different reactant type gases and
oxygen, and or air and other rare uncommon gases and hydrogen sources.
Possible
sources of hydrogen include both electrolyzers
(alkaline technology), gas bottles, metal hydride
tanks and hydrogen from many types of chemical and
non-chemical compound reactions.
Intelligent
Fuel Cell Car Project
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Hydrogen
is found in abundance at the bottom of the ocean in frozen gas
hydrates. Hydrogen is in natural gas, petroleum, coal and in many
by-products of microbial activity within nature and the natural
world.
Hydrogen
isn't limited to a few geographic regions of the planet, and that
makes it a resource that automatically reduces geo-political
tension over the control of the worlds currently limited oil and
coal reserves.
Gas
hydrates are abundant: At the bottom of the colder regions of
the world's oceans, gas hydrates are plentiful. These are frozen
ice-like crystals of frozen hydrogen. They're found off the
coasts of Canada, Japan, Alaska, Russian, China, Iceland and most
of the countries of Northern Europe. Technology now exists to
harvest these gas hydrates, store them at liquid nitrogen
temperature, and easily convert them into usable hydrogen gas by
allowing them to melt at normal atmospheric pressure. The entire
process is clean, energy efficient, and technically feasible.
Available supply of undersea gas hydrates is enormous, the low
estimate is over 10,000 Gigatonnes, more than twice that of all known reserves of all other fossil fuels combined
on the planet, so we will not need to give up the car or the
airplane for a few thousand
years yet.
Micro-Hydrogen-on-demand
technology: will make it possible to power laptop computers
and even smaller electronic devices with hydrogen fuel cells that
will run far longer than current lithium ion batteries do.
Would you like a portable power source that could run your laptop five times longer than your current batteries? How about 10 times longer?
The fuel cell industry is about to produce longer-lasting power for an ever-expanding assortment of small electronic devices.
Micro fuel
cell supporters now believe that fuel cells will replace the
common battery. How soon, though, remains open to debate. But it's not
going to be that long to wait - probably about two or three years
before we see a migration to personal portable fuel cells, and
that’s optimistic. In fact we believe hydrogen
fuel cells will start appearing in consumer electronic
applications by the end of 2009, the beginning of 2010.
You can
get roughly twice the energy out of hydrogen fuel cell that takes
up the same available space as a lithium ion battery would occupy
in a handset or a laptop, and it uses renewable energy. That will
mean 10-25 hours of run time for laptops and double or tripling
of the talk time on all mobile phones including new PDA devices
and iPod gadgets.
The Double
Reversible Fuel Cell
This
reversible fuel cell can be operated as both an electrolyzer (hydrogen
producer) and an electricity production based fuel cell.
When
a small DC voltage is applied to the fuel cell it operates it in
electrolysis mode and split's water into hydrogen and oxygen.
These gases can then be stored in hydrogen and oxygen storage
cylinders. When an electrical load (a device that requires
electricity) is connected (applied) to the fuel cells electrical circuit
and the hydrogen and oxygen is passed through the fuel cell it
creates electricity and operates in the electric fuel cell mode
powering the device connected.
The future is "Hydrogen
Energy On Demand” technology which can
produce hydrogen from water, methanol (pyroxylic spirit) or sodium borohydride or
hydrogen
rich chemical, just when the fuel cell needs to.
Sodium
borohydride can also be used in experimental fuel cell systems.
As a fuel it is less flammable and less volatile than gasoline
but can be corrosive. It is relatively environmentally friendly
because of its low toxicity of borates. The hydrogen is generated
for a fuel cell by catalytic decomposition of the aqueous
borohydride solution:
- Sodium
Borohydride: NaBH4
+ 2H2O → NaBO2 + 4H2
The
Pilgrims Publishing initiative will be strongly interdisciplinary, engaging many experts from:
energy management, biology, ecosystem management, earth sciences, mapmaking, demographics, public health, insurance
and risk liability, heavy engineering, information technology
(computing and data centres), international law, and agriculture, etc.
Pilgrims Publishing Technology Foundation is an
independent, impartial research institution, its technology and
social science research, enables decision makers to make better,
more informed decisions about energy, information technology, environmental, and
natural resource issues.
Pilgrims
Publishing researchers have been engaged in global energy research and analysis for more than
25 years, and are renowned as
some of the very best experts in the field of both analysis and
the design of government policy - having a prominent responsibility
in creating superior and realistic politically sensible
approaches for global governmental agencies regarding
"the challenge of adaptation".
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