Hydrogen production could come through swine manure
US - Energy is vital to global prosperity, yet dependence on fossil fuels as our primary energy source contributes to global climate change, environmental degradation, and health problems.
24 May 2006
2 minute read
In contrast, hydrogen offers tremendous potential as a clean, renewable energy currency because it has the highest energy density of any known fuel and is compatible with electrochemical and combustion processes for energy conversion without producing carbon-based emissions.
Many years of scientific and engineering advances have resulted in two major processes to produce hydrogen, i.e., electrolysis of water and thermo-catalytic reformation of hydrogen-rich organic compounds.
Currently, most hydrogen gas produced in the United States is obtained using these two processes from natural gas (50 percent), petroleum-derived napthenes and distillates (30 percent), and coal (18 percent), with the remainder from electricity (2 percent).
Source: AgriNews
