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If these economic barriers could be overcome, however, a transition to a hydrogen economy throughout the coming 25 years could create as many as 675,000 new jobs, according to a July 2008 DOE report.130 Environmental Impact Although hydrogen fuel cells do not emit any greenhouse gases, hydrogen cannot be considered a clean fuel. After all, ninety-five percent of the 9 million tons of hydrogen produced in the United States annually comes from natural gas, a polluting hydrocarbon. The majority of the remaining 5 percent is created in a process called electrolysis, which uses electricity to split water into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrocarbons, however, generate nearly 70 percent of the nation’s electrical power.131 Thus an increase in the production of hydrogen, a fuel produced with the help of electricity, would increase greenhouse gas emissions. Potential Role and Implications Fuel cells could potentially replace combustion engines as the motor of all light-duty transportation. Already, hydrogen buses and cars are used in public transportation and government fleets around the world, and all major automobile manufacturers are developing hydrogen cars. Yet automakers and energy companies currently have little incentive to push for the advancement of hydrogen technology. They ask themselves: “Why build hydrogen cars, if there is nowhere to fill them up? And why build hydrogen filling stations, if there are no cars to use them?” Instead, automakers are investing in hybrid and electric car technologies, which are more mature and have been proven commercially successful. Local power generation, therefore, will likely remain the most common application for fuel cells in the short and mid-term. Nuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion is the process by which the sun and stars release energy. Man-made nuclear fusion reactions on earth replicate this stellar process, fusing two hydrogen nuclei to form a helium nucleus. The resulting mass of the helium nucleus is less than the combined mass of the two hydrogen nuclei. In accordance with Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, this change in mass releases energy. In the most developed process of nuclear fusion, the nuclei of two heavy isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) are fused together in a containment device.132 The reaction creates helium, a neutron, and excess energy in the amount of 17.6MeV (7.833 e-19 kWh).133 Energy can be harnessed once the fusion process becomes self-sustaining, releasing more energy than is necessary to maintain fusion power.134 Nuclear fusion is still undergoing research and development, primarily funded by governments. The largest and most recent containment device is the Joint European Torus (JET), a tokamak (Figure 3.8), or magnetic containment device, built by the European Fusion Development Agreement.135 The next experiment, ITER, is a joint initiative between Europe, the United States, South Korea, India, China, Russia, and 48PDF Image | Shaping Energy Technology Transition
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