The Promise Of Hydrogen

In 1990s, there was talk that biotech industry would be for the next decade what computer industry was for 1990s. I knew that that was crap. There is a lot more that can be done with computers than with biotech; and while I expect biotech to be a solidly growing field I do not expect it to ever become as big as computers.

There is however a field that can become as big as the computer industry. That field is hydrogen energy. Hydrogen can create clean energy and clean water at the same time. Going to hydrogen will create millions of jobs in both engineering and construction, and that will achieve economic benefit comparable to that of the computer industry.

Hydrogen can be derived from ocean water using solar energy. Both ocean water and solar energy are abundant, and neither is at the risk of running out. Hydrogen from the reaction can then be sent through special safety-assured pipes to places of energy and water consumption, there to be reacted with atmospheric oxygen to create both energy and water.

Now there are some people who claim that hydrogen is dangerous and unstable; but in fact a hydrogen transmission network has been operating in Germany for decades without problems. All you need to do is create double pipes – glass on the inside, steel on the outside – with sensors and valves in the middle to shut off flow in case of a pressure drop. That makes it at least as safe as current technologies.

Hydrogen economy will replace the electric grid and the water delivery system with a single seamless network. Vast amount of jobs will be realized during its construction; and vast savings will be realized over the long term. The people who have been displaced through flight of jobs abroad will be gainfully employed once again. And that will do more to support American jobs than any amount of tariffs or quotas against foreign imports.

While the utility of biotech is limited, the utility of hydrogen is vast. We are talking here about a technology that stands to fuel the world. We are talking here about a technology that stands to create millions of jobs in both engineering and construction. We are talking here about a technology that stands to replace inefficient, polluting technologies with a technology that is efficient and non-polluting.

I highly recommend doing more research into the matter. On my part I am promoting a Hydrogen Transmission Network (http://htnresearch.com). To the people who think that oil is progress and clean energy is stagnation: The opposite is the case. Hydrogen is a path toward better technology. To the people who think that global warming is a ploy for government takeover of the economy: Hydrogen economy can be put into place by business as well as it can be put into place by government. I, for one, don't care for a moment who does it for as long as it gets done.

So that while the utility of biotech is limited, the utility of hydrogen is enormous. And putting into place the hydrogen technology will create prosperity comparable to what was created in 1990s by the computer industry, with vast benefits for people living now and people living in the future.