This article explores the historical shift in energy sources towards cleaner fuels, emphasizing the importance of hydrogen in achieving a sustainable future.
Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearEnergy, The long story of human energy use revolves around two letters H and C. These letters represent a pair of elements hydrogen and carbon. Bonded together, they form hydrocarbons. Dating back to antiquity, this is what humanity has burned to unlock the energy that has allowed our species to thrive. Wood heated our shelters and cooked our foods. Coal fueled our power plants to electrify much of civilization.
'A substitution process that had proceeded happily and unnoticed for about 200 years came to a halt, in fact slightly reversed in the USA and flatlined globally for about 50 years,' he said in a talk given earlier this summer. RealClearScience reached out to Ausubel to ask why he thought this happened. He primarily attributed the unfortunate pause to a 'failure of nuclear energy to gain expected market share.' In the 1980s, 46 nuclear reactors came online in the U.S.
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