Because of the exponential nature of the global energy and environmental problems, The Phoenix Project calls for the U.S. to shift from fossil and nuclear fuels to wind-powered electrolytic systems with wartime speed. Approximately 12 million one-megawatt wind machines would be needed to generate all of the U.S. current energy requirements (i.e. 100 quadrillion Btus). Given that wind machines are similar to an automobile from a manufacturing perspective, and given that 17 million vehicles are manufactured each year in the U.S., the 12 million wind systems could be mass-produced and installed in less than 24 months once the tooling is in place. As such, it is possible for the U.S. to be energy independent, with a pollution-free and inexhaustible energy resource within 5 or 10 years. That would include the deployment of a an interstate superconducting hydrogen pipeline system that would carry both electricity as well as hydrogen, as well as the modification of all of the automotive vehicles and power plants in the U.S. Such a transition of substance will have profound implications for the economy, the environment, and U.S. foreign policy.
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Harry Braun is Chairman of the Hydrogen Political Action Committee that seeks to have the Congress hold the necessary Hydrogen Hearings that will be necessary to build the public support for shifting from fossil and nuclear fuels, to hydrogen manufactured by wind and other solar technologies. Harry has worked as an energy and environmental analyst for the past 30 years. He is Chairman and CEO of Sustainable Partners, a systems integration firm that is involved in a number of renewable energy projects. Harry Received a Bachelors degree from Arizona State University in 1971. His postgraduate research has focused on energy technologies and resources, as well as the on-going developments in molecular biology, protein engineering and nanotechnology. Harry is an Advisory Board Member of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.
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Provactive - Revolutionary ideas,
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This review is from: The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen (Hardcover)
These are provocative and potentially revolutionary ideas. Anyone who doesn't have a political ax to grind should give these ideas a fair hearing. The only rational conclusion one could reach after being exposed to the energy realities exposed in this book, is that the current administration's monolithic devotion to oil could only be based on unpatriotic cronyism. The ideas presented here are a direct threat to the oppresive middle east regimes who directly sponsor terrorism and to those who partner with them.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen,
This review is from: The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen (Hardcover)
This is not only a great book; it is an important one hitting on a critical topic that is not politically motivated in a sinister way as implied by the author of an earlier critique of this book. I do not think I understand the author of that review's definition of "politically motivated" seeing how most people, who fall one way or an other on an issue, as the author of that review does himself, are furthering a cause that is supported by a political organization; whether they know it or not.
Anyway, I bought this book three years ago, and unfortunately, the ever increasing costs associated with the war in Iraq and the failure to roll back the pre-9/11 tax cuts the president campaigned on and brought to fruition have only made Harry Braun's proposal an even more unlikely scenario to happen. This is not to confuse his plan with an unfeasible one; it is a great plan, but it is a plan nonetheless that would only gain the support of Americans in another era, such as in the late 18th Century, mid-19th Century, and World War II, where people had the moxie to do what was right for themselves and their posterity. The six trillion dollar plan proposed in this book would have been tenable if the now projected two trillion dollar cost of the war in Iraq had been averted. As Harry Braun so adequately stated, a switch from an oil based economy to a hydrogen one would have made us the "Saudi Arabia" exports of the world in regards to hydrogen fuel. Everything in this book, aside from finding the people with the fortitude and insight to make it happen, is completely doable. OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) systems, off-shore wind systems, and the like, not only make it possible to produce the only pollution free solution to our energy problems (the previous critique forgot to mention that Nuclear waste which has no safe form of disposal is its pollution), they are also technologies that can aid us in replenishing life in our oceans that are in grave danger of extinction. As the book points out at the time of its publishing (if I remember correctly from three years ago), large predatory fish have been reduced to 5% of their previous populations. Hydrogen producing systems would create a safe haven in our oceans for these animals and their food supply to replenish these populations which have been devastated by ocean trawlers and the fishing industry. With that said, this book is a fantastic read if you want to get some incredible insight into ridding our country from its dependence on foreign oil. If every American read this book, it would not be a question of whether we should implement the ideas crafted in this book; it would be a question of `how fast can we do it in?' Harry's answer is in as little as 5 to 6 years. Every mode of transportation can be converted to run off of hydrogen. Germany had trucks running off of hydrogen in WWII. Harry Braun explains how it is safe (hence NASA's use of it) and dispels the myth of the Hindenburg's fire which had nothing to do with its hydrogen gas. Just run electricity made from wind and solar power generated predominately in our oceans (which has the ecological benefit I mentioned) through water (plenty of it in our oceans) and now you have an unlimited supply of the world's only non-polluting energy source; one that plants have been using for billions of years! So why not? Buy this book and see for yourself what we could have had in the near future!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This would work!,
This review is from: The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen (Hardcover)
Harry Braun's ideas to change the USA from the world's largest energy importer to the largest energy exporter by becoming the 1st nation to mass produce liquid hydrogen for fuel would work.
He has brilliantly included all existing energy cohorts: Big Oil would produce and ship the liquid hydrogen using existing ocean liners, The Big 3 Auto Co. would build the million+ windmills using existing plants, and USA Banks would fund the 5 year project. Using pollution free liquid hydrogen to replace filthy oil, nuclear, coal and hydroelectric energy generation would not only secure a cleaner environment but equip our country's economy with new, profitable business for generations. Picture a tanker ship filled with liquid hydrogen crashing off the USA coast. The hydrogen would seamlessly assimilate into the biosphere and the only pollution would be the ship itself. If we are hell-bent on using thermodynamics to produce energy we may as well use pollution free hydrogen. The windmills used to produce electricity to separate out the hydrogen would be a beautiful site in the rural south west; a monument to a cleaner and smarter world. The Phoenix Project is a must read!
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