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The road to global security," writes Jeremy Rifkin, "lies in lessening our dependence on Middle East oil and making sure that all people on Earth have access to the energy they need to sustain life. Weaning the world off oil and turning it toward hydrogen is a promissory note for a safer world." Rifkin's international bestseller The Hydrogen Economy presents the clearest, most comprehensive case for moving ourselves away from the destructive and waning years of the oil era toward a new kind of energy regime. Hydrogen-one of the most abundant substances in the universe-holds the key, Rifkin argues, to a cleaner, safer, and more sustainable world.
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A must read-why we must move to a hydrogen economy.......2007-06-18
This book details exactly why we must move away from our dependence on fossil fuels, from the geopolitical struggles to the environmental issues, and sets forth the absolute benefits for hydrogen based energy-it is 100% renewable, and the technology to harness it would equalize all members of the human race.
Does it give technical details as to how hydrogen energy could be harnessed? No. Those are details best left to the research scientists and the engineers. But it gives the general public all the reasons why we should be demanding our scientists and engineers develop this technology and then make it available to the general public.
Read this book because you want to equalize society. Read this book because you want to equalize the human race.
A rather rushed leap to hydrogen determinism.......2007-03-25
Jeremy Rifkin is known for being a radical visionary and much was expected of him when he embraced hydrogen as our energy panacea. However, this book recycles a lot of old ideas and basically presents more historical material on peak oil than it does on hydrogen. Rifkin also succumbs to fearmongering tactics in the post-9/11 world by having a full chpater on "The Islamist Wild Card." He could have just as well considered the "Venezuelan" wild card. This book fails to deliver any plausible scenarios on how a hydrogen economy is viable when fuel cells require tremendous material usage. As Rifkin admits himself, fuel cells are not a new invention and predate the internal combustion engine. However, they have not been economically viable because hydrogen production is still the big problem. If we use methane to produce hydrogen we are stuck with the nonrenewability issue and if we use electrolysis, the only sensible way would be to use renewables such as wind, solar, geothermal and small-hydro to carry out the electrolysis. How such a transition will be made is missed in the analysis. The most promising feature of fuel cells is that they can be used to feed back into the grid if the infrastructure exists. Only one chapter is devoted to brushing through these intractable issues. Amory Lovins is far more astute in his writings on this matter.
Unfortunantly this is a view I share.......2006-08-02
World oil is declining and this book explains all the facts related to the coming end of the oil age. If you don't believe its true you will after reading this book and the book "the Coming economic collapse". Not sure hydrogen is viable the way this author states but if we can develop "just in time" hydrogen generation we may have a chance. I wish someone could explain how Stanley Mayer was generating hydrogen by fracturing water as he described but unfortunately he was killed.
"A snare and a delusion...".......2006-01-04
...as noted in other reviews here, hydrogen is simply an energy carrier (not a source) -- like a battery.
Here is an interesting quote:
" ...hydrogen offers little to no potential to produce oil security and reduce climate change risk in the next 20 years. (Changing the infrastructure for using hydrogen fuel cells for transportation) ...is a many decades undertaking.
Hydrogen fuel cells for transportation, are in my judgment, a snare and a delusion..."
-- James Woolsey, former CIA Director.
Simply Awful - How Does this Guy Get to Keep Writing Books? .......2005-12-08
I put this book down probably quicker than any other book I can think of in recent memory. It's simply awful.
I can't agree with even the paltry 2 or 3 star reviews who say that the first half of the book was good, but that it misses the point (as well as basic physics, thermodynamics, economics, . . . etc.)
Even the first half of this book is awful. The first chapter was the first sign that you're in trouble. It basically just lists a bunch of "stuff" that's going on: Globalization, Protesters in the streets against it, Telecommunications, Biotech, and . . . err . . . oh yeah, let's not forget 9/11 . . . and . . . Barbara Streisand isn't as good as she used to be, blah, blah, blah. I guess this is supposed to count for serious analysis because after just listing a bunch of trends he decries how there's been no serious analysis about Globalization. (Does this guy live under a rock!?!? Maybe an ivy covered one at Wharton where he apparently teaches . . . note to self: Don't get accepted to Wharton.) The rest of the first chapter describes the oil industry in terms starker than Orwell described Big Brother. But don't despair! The Hydrogen Energy Web will save us all! It will be like what the internet was for communications but for like energy or something like that, and it will destroy the evil oil companies, and it'll make everyone rich, we'll all be able to move back to countryside (I'm serious, he's basically claiming that), it will lay golden eggs, make your first born smarter and prettier, make your hair grow back, etc. Where will get the hydrogen? Oh it comes from stars or something, it's the most abundant element in the universe! OK, who will set up this web? (I'm not kidding here, again) Well, big corporations stole the internet before VOLUNTEER GROUPS could set it up, so we'll have VOLUNTEER GROUPS create the hydrogen energy web this time around. Oh, err, big companies will still be needed to, like, make all the hardware, and all the software (he actually concedes this point in a dismissive sentence), will be needed to send people out to fix any problems, to coordinate it, to, well, actually build it, but somehow it will be made by volunteer groups anyway and big companies won't really be a part of it. Even though they will be. But they won't. LOOK OVER THERE! A giant ball of oil company induced global warming is heading straight for us!!!
The second chapter is even better. He complains about how many classifications of oil reserves there are. With completely non-sensical names like "identified reserves", "non-identified reserves", and whatnot (boo-hoo, boo-hoo, there's just soooo many of them) he concludes that they can only have been created to confuse people so that the big oil executives and politicians can manipulate, confuse, and deceive the stupid masses into believing something or another about oil. (I was never quite certain what that was supposed to be. Oh well.) But not Mr. Rifkin! He's beaten them. He's defined "conventional oil" all himself, which excludes all oil that has been found but is currently uneconomical to extract and sell, all oil in polar regions, and all oil underneath the oceans. He does this to prove that we're running out of oil, and that the big oil companies are cooking the books. Tonight I'm going eat "conventional food" which will exclude all food in two thirds of the Kitchen, and all food in, say, the Living Room, to prove to my family that we're all going to starve to death. Don't tell me I'm wrong son! You're cooking the books!! Don't you see we're all going to DIE!
This book is not only awful, it's duplicitous. One of the few mentions of nuclear power is to say in two sentences basically: Utilities put a lot money into nuclear in the '60's and '70's. In the '80's the utilities made the consumer bear the brunt of a lot cost overruns and power plant shutdowns. The idea is to imply that nuclear power was a giant failure with a bunch of cost overruns and power plants that couldn't keep running. Both sentences might be technically true (because there's no mention of nuclear power in the second), but they're crafted to make you imply a conclusion without any specific evidence or argument.
Let's be clear: This book is a political diatribe. Big oil bad, Hydrogen good because it will do all these wonderful things. How will it do all these wonderful things? Some unconvincing arguments, red herrings, and incomplete and inconclusive examples and complete hypotheticals.
One of the biggest flaws is how it handles (or, more accurately, fails to) where hydrogen will come from, since it is not a primary energy source the way oil, coal, or nuclear is. It will take more energy to extract hydrogen from either natural gas or water than we will ever be able to get from the extracted hydrogen, thanks to the second law of thermodynamics. This is the critical question of what will replace oil, period, and only four pages are dedicated to it. The author's answer is solar. His argument for solar? Well, basically, solars's getting cheaper. That's not a complete argument! Is it FEASIBLE to power the world off solar? To power the United States off solar today would require a solar array the size of a small state! And you'd have to make another state size solar array to handle the growth in energy demand. God forbid the sun not shine one day. (Or maybe we'll have to invade the Middle East still because they have like 364 sunny days a year over there, leaving us at the mercy of the islamist anyway. Norway will probably invade Southern California too.) Solar by itself is getting cheaper, great, what about it's cost RELATIVE to other sources? There's zero discussion about using coal, or nuclear to power electrolysis of hydrogen.
This book is mostly a political posture. He puts forward a fantasy political vision, and tries to scare you into thinking it's the only thing that will save us from impending doom with some false techno-babble in lieu of any actual coherent plan or argument.
There are only two possible ways this book could help solve energy problems. One, you could burn it instead of heating oil this winter. Or two, if some magical invention could tap into all the hot air this author blows out his pipe we could use it to turn a turbine. Probably forever. I'm hoping for this latter option, but planning on the first.
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The message of The Hydrogen Economy is resoundingly simple: The earth is depleting its oil reserves and even the most generous estimates show oil reserves peaking in about forty years. The specter of global warming and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in the oil-rich regions of the earth worsen the problem considerably. The answer, asserts Rifkin, is to embrace a new energy source that is just now gaining public attention: hydrogen.
This abundant element, found everywhere on earth including in air and water, can be transformed, using sustainable methods, into a potentially limitless form of clean-burning fuel. But this potential will founder unless we act now to create the necessary global infrastructure before the factors above overtake us. If we embrace this momentous opportunity, Rifkin says, we will also be able to reinvent the global economy as one in which an inexpensive energy grid provides affordable, efficient fuel for virtually everyone on earth. If we fail, our current economic regime-built exclusively on fossil fuels-will collapse. As the concept of a hydrogen-based future grows in the news, The Hydrogen Economy will lead the way.
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Facts take a back seat to idealogy.......2007-01-20
While Rifkin does a good job of pointing out the problem with our current, oil-driven economy, his solution of a hydrogen based economy often ignores the reality of the situation. Throughout the book, he egregiously glosses over the need to use energy to produce hydrogen gas, implying that hydrogen fuel cells can be net producers of energy, which is simply false.
When he mentions that hydrogen is the most abundant element on the planet, he egregiously glosses over the fact that hydrogen, as found naturally, is not a potential source of energy (at least without fusion power). He excitedly describes the possibilities of hydrogen fuel cells producing electricity on a decentralized grid, but spends very little time talking about how they might get the hydrogen to fuel them.
He does briefly mention the possible ways of producing hydrogen gas from renewable energy, but he fails to show how they can be efficiently implemented to replace fossil fuels. He uses anecdotes to support solar power, his apparent favorite, without providing realistic figures on it's widespread use, especially in more northerly regions. He also positively mentions hydroelectric and wind power, apparently without considering their possibly damaging effects on ecosystems or the practicality of producing enough energy from them. With nuclear power, on the other hand, he focuses exclusively on the negatives, perhaps because it's associated with "old-fashioned, centralized" power corporations, which he considers to be part of the problem.
Most egregiously, though, he almost completely ignores conservation and efficiency improvements. He paints a utopian picture of the future, with free, clean energy for all, if we can just make the transition to his fabled "Hydrogen Economy".
The sections discussing the problems with fossil fuels, which comprise about 2/3rds of the book, are significantly better than the sections pertaining to the so-called "Hydrogen Economy". While he may be something of an alarmist, he mostly does back his claims with data and research, and he provides an inclusive picture, considering geopolitical, environmental, and technical perspectives, including the possibilities inherent in tar sands and gasification of coal. However, I expected that a book titled "The Hydrogen Economy" to provide decent information on hydrogen.
Mr. Rifkin is out of touch with reality. Come on!.......2006-09-30
While I hope and pray that we ultimately make our way to a hydrogen economy, the only way to get to this point is one that Mr. Rifkin vehemently opposes. Nuclear power is the only viable solution to create sufficient sources of hydrogen to sustain a hydrogen economy. The alternative is a reliance on fossil fuels vis-à-vis coal and natural gas.
Mr. Rifkin's adherence to "no nukes" is based on a steadfast dogma that is out of touch with reality.
1) Nuclear power is economical. Our current base of nuclear power is the reason that we have not seen the dramatic swings in prices in electricity (has anyone watched the price of natural gas or oil in the past few years?) Nuclear power plants have been cost competitive with other sources of electricity. Do you believe that our electricity moguls adhere to nuclear plants because they like them? Wall Street runs this economy. If it didn't make financial sense, they would not do it.
2) We do know how to transport and dispose of the waste; politicians have stood in the way. There are far worse things that are transported everyday and no one complains. Put this in perspective: all of the waste from all of the nuclear plants in the US would fill a football field about 14 feet high. Compare this to coal. In one year the US mines and burns enough coal to fill the state of Rhode Island in 2 feet of coal, every year. This results in greenhouse gases, acid rain, mercury, and ash. While nuclear waste is indisputably nasty stuff, it is manageable. Congress has spent billions of dollars to analyze Yucca Mountain. They have forced scientists to consider the effects for out to 1 million years. Talk about out of touch with reality - there will have been a dozen ice ages and new species will walk this planet by then. Not to mention that the proposed repository is 1000 feet below the surface, 1000 feet above the water table, and in a geologically stable area. Furthermore, and here's the real irony, Yucca Mountain is in the middle of the Nevada Test Site which has been the host to over 900 nuclear explosions for the purposes of a more effective nuclear warhead. It's already a nuclear wasteland.
3) Uranium resources are running out? Really? Did you actually say that Mr. Rifkin? With spent fuel reprocessing and alternate fuel cycles we could literally create an endless supply of fissile material. Literally. And don't talk about the potential for bombs. We are dismantling bombs to burn them in reactors today! Not because we need the fuel, but because it is an effective way to dispose of the warheads.
4) Recently, Mr. Rifkin cited terrorism as risk. According to security experts, while any industrial facility could serve as a viable target for a terrorist attack, nuclear power falls lower on the list. Seriously, a terrorist attack from a bomb at a major sporting event (made with supplies from your local feed store) or cyanide in an aquifer (purchased from a scientific supply store) pose much more serious threats. If you want to try this theory, drive to your closest nuclear plant and take a look at what it would take to get into it. The security and barriers exceed that of which would find at the most secure government facilities.
NOTE: Mr. Rifkin recently talked about an Australian nuclear power plant. Check your facts Mr Rifkin. They do not even have a nuclear power plant. They have one research reactor. It's a very small research reactor. (There are dozens like it throughout the US at university and other research facilities.) Google ANSTO HIFAR Reactor. Check your facts. If you don't understand the difference you shouldn't be talking about it.
5) Finally, Rifkin sites nuclear power as "highly centralized, clunky technology of a bygone era" and that it is "elite power" controlled by the few. Hmmm, would you want it controlled by the many? That's laughable. Rifkin is showing his true socialist colors here. Communist's running nuclear plants. Do you suppose that is the better alternative?
Solar Power? Take your head out of the sand. Solar power is not a viable solution to offset our electricity demand. It's not the panacea that you hope that it is. If it was, don't you think capitalist would have jumped all over this already? Electricity is a $300 billion per year market. If you could supplant an existing technology, you could become the richest person in the world. I don't care who would oppose you. Our capitalist system would not ignore a $300 billion market. It just not technically feasible - at this time. Maybe hundred years from now. But we have a real crisis on our hands right now. And we only have one solution. Nuclear Power.
While I admire Jeremy Rifkin for publishing this book, because a hydrogen economy is only sustainable solution for our planet, his vehement opposition to nuclear power demonstrates his lack of credibility.
I would encourage people to forget our biases that may be based on opinion and emotion. We should have the open mindedness to consider all technology to save our planet.
Important stuff.......2006-02-24
I found this book very eye opening and informational. It is a great read.
Ignore the negative reviewers and understand the real crisis.......2005-10-14
It's best that we give Hydrogen a chance rather than continuing to rely on BIG OIL like drug addicts. For all the taxpayers' money that is wasted on pushing for wasting resources, why not push for a country that can lead the way for true energy savings. Don't let the book's haters fool you. Buy this book and learn to help save our planet from oil cartel terrorists all over the world.
Are We There Yet?- Heading Down the Super Highway to a Hydrogen Energy Future?.......2005-06-27
The Creation of the World-Wide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth, The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin, 2002, ISBN 1-58542-193-6 (Hardback) Penguin Putnam, New York, 294 p.
Jeremy Rifkin begins his internationally successful book by reference to the situation which applied at the end of the 18th century in the Western World. The new rationalism of Newton and other scientists and philosophers heralded the oncoming industrial revolution, the American Revolution and the French revolution, all with their respective impacts upon history and subsequent generations. Rifkin starts with his view of the analogous situation facing the world today: namely the failure of existing orthodoxies and the radial nature of new possibilities.
Rifkin is a veritable optimist with his references to what he sees as radical change at work in our world of vastly changing technology and society. He contrasts the issue of finite fossil fuels and the forces of world gloablisation; he sees the current limits of energy supply as providing the opportunity for the computer and telecommunications revolution to fuse the new hydrogen energy revolution. The abundance of hydrogen is what he sees as the key to an opportunity for every human being to be empowered by "the first truly democratic energy regime in history".
While I don't like pouring cold water on this prospect of energy Nirvana for everyone on the face of the earth, I suggest the Jeremy also include in his 18th century vinaigrette of the world some of Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations) and Thomas Malthus (Essay on the Principle of Population), so that Rifkin's `world without energy want' can be compared with some of the reality to which the world is likely to return. Some of these other great minds which Rifkin didn't include in his introduction note how struggle and disproportionate endowment of resources make trade and exchange a necessity, and so to has been the development of major trading enterprises and technologies. Such enterprises and their technologies don't readily give up their advantages or market position just because a hydrogen economy is a very nice and equitable idea and we would all be better off, environmentally (the environment - the last free `public good') if it came about.
What I find difficult to accept as an assumption by Rifkin is that each member of the human race will have equal opportunity to share in the hydrogen economy. Hydrogen is not readily accessible without some form of technology and existing energy - a fact which would enhance the potential for commercial (large) organizations to gain more through its use than the isolated actions of individuals, no matter how well run and spam free the world wide web might become as a marketplace or as a means of enhancing global welfare. While the dream of endless public participation is a high ideal, sadly reality doesn't seem to match this ideal. Profits and the potential for market power are the ultimate drivers which will limit the advent of the WWW hydrogen energy dream.
The book is an admirable effort and one with lots of scope for people to be inspired by the possibilities; but sadly, this world lacks the capacity to attain anything close to the conditions necessary for this dream to be realized. Rifkin's book is an admirable look at the potential for `what if' but in any race to the future my tip is that the runner that tries hardest is the one which is called `Self-interest'; it can be relied upon to take every advantage over such things as `equity' or `justice'.
A terrific book if you want to look at the world's potential but not one which fits with our patchy, if not Dickensian future age, of gradual energy poverty.
Dr Ian Lavering
Adjunct Professor
MBT Program UNSW
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Almost five decades ago, Stan and Iris Ovshinsky proposed a radical idea, the hydrogen loop, to fully utilize the benefits of hydrogen, the universes ultimate energy source. What started as this couples inspiring commitment to make the world a better place is now realized in the products and technologies offered by the company they founded Energy Conversion Devices. Stan Ovshinsky is likely to be known as the Father of the Hydrogen Economy. This is his story.
The implementation of this totally clean and renewable system (the hydrogen economy) now falls to us. Will you make your roof a photovoltaic one? Have you bought a hybrid electric automobile? Will you be an early adopter of hydrogen burning internal combustion cars or fuel cell powered ones? Will you now invest in alternative energy stocks? Will you vote for politicians who promote incentives for the adoption of alternative energy technologies? Will you use hydrogen now? Hydrogen can replace anything that burns and can give us a cleaner, safer world. Remember, if you are not part of the solution then you are the problem.
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Great Book.......2006-06-24
This is a great primer on the hydrogen economy and the history behind that technology that will most likely drive the future. It is suitable for readers who are both technically inclined and people who are not. If you are at all interested in alternative energy you should read this book.
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Roy does a very good job of explaining hydrogen production and the various methods that can be used to create it. He also does a very good job of explaining the need for renewable energy and how it could have 'anti-inflationary' effects if we spent the money on that instead of wasting it on non-renewable fossil fuels that could be put to better use in manufacturing.
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A glimmer of hope in a fading world.......2004-05-07
I have been studying alternative energy for over 20 years. Back in the 70's & 80's I got involved with passive solar & ethanol production. Eventually I became an architect to help "save the world". I eventually jumped on the hydrogen band wagon a few years ago & jumped back off when I realized it was mostly hype.
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Roy explains in very simple terms how we could convert many of our existing infastructures into hydrogen supporting infastructures. In the end the book has given me hope and renewed my interest in sustainability.
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- The Master Swing Trader: Tools and Techniques to Profit from Outstanding Short-Term Trading Opportunities
- The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
- The Toyota Product Development System: Integrating People, Process And Technology
- The Wealth of Nations (Bantam Classics)
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
- The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism
- The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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