From 1988 to 1990, Romm worked as Special Assistant for International Security at the Rockefeller Foundation. This study was part of The Pew Project on America's Task in a Changed World.

Chapters include The Concept of National Security Drug Policy and National Security Environmental Security Economic Security, and A New National Security Agenda. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Notes, Bibliography, and About the Author. In sum, The Hype about Hydrogen aims to educate us on the alarming state of energy resources, and warns that too many eggs put in the hydrogen basket just might make the globe more vulnerable to global warming and other eco-disasters.We're sorry this specific copy is no longer available. Will it help us achieve energy independence? Romm thinks it possible however, he would rather play it safe as he reveals his strategies for a cleaner climate: 1) The government needs to increase the energy budget 2) Use technology to find a low-cost way to reduce CO 2 emissions 3) Figure out how to get to a hydrogen-based economy 4) Campaign for natural gas and electricity and 5) Make the public aware of the tough road ahead. The reader may be left to wonder if hydrogen is worth the risk at all. Is it too much promise, too fast? Romm believes so and backs it up with several cold hard statements, this being the most startling: 'Hydrogen fuel cell cars are unlikely to achieve significant market penetration by 2030.'

He then sifts fact from fiction as he criticizes the hyped-up marketing of emission-free fuel cell cars. Romm begins with the basics, educating the reader on how fuel cells actually work to produce heat and electricity and the role hydrogen plays in this chemical process. Joseph Romm, author and former administrator for the Department of Energy under the Clinton Administration, says that while hydrogen technology may be able to address some short-term energy needs, powering automobile engines isn't one of them. Now that sales of hybrid cars are on the rise and President Bush has supported a 'hydrogen economy,' are we moving any closer to a gasoline-free economy and cleaner climate? Is it time to look around for hydrogen-related investments?

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