Science Friday > Archives > 2004 > August > August 13, 2004:
Hour One: Hydrogen Economy
Most experts agree that we are heading toward replacing fossil fuels - oil, coal, natural gas - with cleaner burning hydrogen. The aim is to lower production of the greenhouse gas: carbon dioxide. This hour, we talk about how soon such a switch might occur.
Also, a report published in the journal Science says that we don't need any new technology to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, we can use the technologies that we already have. Can this be true?
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Guests:
Stephen
Pacala
Director of Carbon Mitigation Initiative
Petrie Professor of Ecology
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
John Turner
Principal Scientist
National Renewable
Energy Laboratory
Golden, Colorado
Amy
Jaffe
Wallace S. Wilson Fellow for Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute
for Public Policy
Associate Director, Rice Energy Program
Associate Director, Shell Center for Sustainability
Rice University
Houston, Texas
This segment produced by Karin Vergoth
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Books/Articles Discussed:
The Hydrogen Economy:
Opportunities, Costs, Barriers, and R&D Needs (2004)
National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Board on Energy and Environmental
Systems (BEES)
A Realizable Renewable Energy Future
The Carbon Mitigation Initiative
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