Hydrogen

= Hydrogen =

BY: Will Sowell & Ryan Podnar

About Hydrogen
​HydrogenThere is no currant way to transport Hydrogen in bulk, although people have been concidering modifying fossil fule pipelines to transport hydrogen. Atomic Number: 1 Atomic Radies: 78 pm Atomic Symbol: H Melting Point: -259.34 degreas C Atomic Weight: 1.0079 Boling Point: -252.87 degreas C Hydregen is a clean souce of energy that can be used to power cars houses and much more. It could even replace fossle fules. []

The process used to transform this energy into electrical energy.[[image:http://205.153.241.230/issues/emergeoct2005/fuelcell.jpg width="300" height="305" align="right"]]
The main way hydrogen is converted to electrical energy is by useing fule cells. Fule cells combined two H cells (hydrogen) and one O cell (oxegen) creating H2O cells (water). Hydrogen does not occur free in nature; it can be made by "re-forming" natural gas or another fossil fuel, or by using electricity to split ("electrolyze") water into its components of oxygen and hydrogen. In this sense, hydrogen is like [|electricity]: the energy to generate it can be obtained from sources ranging from the burning of high-sulfur coal to pollution-free photovoltaic cells (solar cells). when they combined they create energy.

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The advantages of using this resource instead of burning fossil fuels.
Some advanteges of useing hydrogen are it does not polute, has the best energy-to-weight ration,and it is colorless oderless and its only by-product is water.That is good because only a small portion of earths water is fresh so it adds to the supply.

Disadvantages
Hydrogen is currently very expensive, not because it is rare (it's the most common element in the universe!) but because it's difficult to generate, handle, and store, requiring bulky and heavy tanks like those for [|compressed natural gas] (CNG) or complex insulating bottles if stored as a cryogenic (super-cold) liquid like [|liquefied natural gas] (LNG). It can also be stored at moderate temperatures and pressures in a tank containing a metal-hydride absorber or carbon adsorber, though these are currently very expensive.

How this energy relates to your everyday life.[[image:http://www.treehugger.com/hydrogen-car.jpg width="240" height="240" align="right"]]
Hydrogen is a grate every day recorss that can be used to power your car, house, toster and anything else you can think of.

=Energy Facts=


 * Order from highest energy usage to least.**

17,154,402,852,000 KWH || .2269 || 23% || 17,154,402,852,000 KWH || .0203 || 2% || 17,154,402,852,000 || .0072 || 1% || 17,154,402,852,000 || .0003 || .03% ||
 * country || **Fraction** || ** Decimal ** || ** Percent ** ||
 * ** United States ** || __3,892,000,000,000 KWH__
 * ** United Kingdom ** || __348,500,000,000 KWH__
 * ** Thailand ** || __123,900,000,000 KWH__
 * ** Panama ** || __4,768,000,000 KWH__


 * **Country** || **Population** || **Energy Use Per Person** ||
 * United States || 307,212,123 || 12669 KWH ||
 * United Kingdom || 61,113,205 || 5703 KWH ||
 * Thailand || 65,905,410 || 1880 KWH ||
 * Panama || 3,360,474 || 1419 KWH ||

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