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The power produced by a hydrogen fuel cell depends on a variety of factors including its type, size, the pressure at which gases are supplied, and the temperature at which it operates. A single cell produces approximately 1 Volt – barely enough electricity for even the smallest applications. To increase the amount of electricity generated, individual fuel cells are combined to form a stack. This scalability ensures that fuel cells can be used for a variety of applications, from laptops (50 to 100 Watts) to vehicles (50 to 125kW) to central power generation (1 to 200MW) and others.122 Energy Independence and Security By implementing hydrogen technology on a large scale, the United States could take a considerable step towards energy independence in the long term. After all, fuel cell technology has the potential to replace gasoline combustion engines as the motor of all light duty transportation. As hydrogen is an abundant resource and can be produced using a variety of domestic technologies, the United States would no longer have to import oil to meet transportation energy needs. In addition, hydrogen fuel cells can generate electricity locally and allow companies that rely on high quality electricity to become independent of the grid. Two current examples of private sector enterprises taking advantage of the technology are the First National Bank of Omaha, whose 200,000-square-foot Technology Center has a power plant of 400-kW (.00004 MW) fuel cells, and the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, California, with four 250-kW hydrogen (.000025 MW) fuel cells that generate enough electricity to power their entire production.123 Economic Impact and Feasibility Great costs are the biggest hurdle to the implementation of a “hydrogen economy.” While prices for hydrogen fuel cells have dropped by 65 percent since 2002, today’s fuel cell still costs around $107 per kW.124 As a result, even the newest hydrogen cars total many hundreds of thousands of dollars in production cost.125 The National Academy of Sciences estimates that $55 billion of government investment is necessary to reach a goal of two million hydrogen cars on the road by 2023, assuming that the cost of fuel cells drop to $30 by 2015.126 Storing and distributing hydrogen is also costly and thus problematic. At room temperature and pressure, hydrogen contains less than one three-hundredths the energy in an equivalent volume of gasoline. To fit into a reasonably sized storage tank, the gas has to be liquefied or compressed. Since trucking hydrogen is inefficient—a 44-ton-vehicle that can carry enough gasoline to refuel 800 cars could only carry enough hydrogen to fuel 80 vehicles127—the gas needs to be distributed via pipeline. Yet constructing hydrogen pipelines costs approximately $1 million per mile128 and only 700 miles exist today, compared with more than 300,000 miles of pipeline for natural gas.129 47PDF Image | Shaping Energy Technology Transition
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