The hydrogen economy in the 21st century: a sustainable development scenario

By Leonardo Barreto, A. Makihira, Keywan Riahi. 2003

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A long-term hydrogen-based scenario of the global energy system is described in qualitative and quantitative terms here, illustrating the key role of hydrogen in a long-term transition toward a clean and sustainable energy future. In an affluent, low-population-growth, equity and sustainability-oriented B1-H2 world, hydrogen technologies experience substantial but plausible performance and costs improvements and are able to diffuse extensively. Corresponding production and distribution infrastructures emerge. The global hydrogen production system, initially fossil based, progressively shifts toward renewable sources. Fuel cells and other hydrogen-using technologies play a major role in a substantial transformation toward a more flexible, less vulnerable, distributed energy system which meets energy needs in a cleaner, more efficient and cost-effective way. This profound structural transformation of the global energy system brings substantial improvements in energy intensity and security of supply and results in an accelerated decarbonization of the energy mix, with subsequent relatively low climate impacts. Such energy-system path might still not be sufficient to protect against the risk of high climate sensitivities, but hydrogen-based technologies emerge as flexible options for the energy system and, thus, would be prime candidates for a risk management strategy against an uncertain climate future.

Subfields: Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Simulating the adoption of fuel cell vehicles (2006, background): “(1998), Moore and Raman (1998), Ogden (1999a, 1999b), Barreto et al. (2002), Ogden (2002), Stromberger (2003).”
The sustainable development oxymoron: quantifying and modelling the incompatibility of sustainable development goals (2016, neutral): “(Field-)experimental approaches (Schill et al. 2015; Tollefson 2015) and scenario analysis, thus theoretically informed examinations of various possible scenarios (Barreto et al. 2003; Swart et al. 2004; Ostrom 2009) are better suited to test ‘alternative worlds’.”
Effect of hydroxy (HHO) gas addition on performance and exhaust emissions in compression ignition engines (2010, background): “This makes hydrogen unsuitable as a sole fuel for diesel engines [5].”
Forecasts, scenarios, visions, backcasts and roadmaps to the hydrogen economy: A review of the hydrogen futures literature (2006, methodology): “Some of the decentralised systems involve synergy between the transport and heat & power sectors, with FCVs both providing mobile power and selling power to the grid at times of peak demand (Australian Government, 2003; Barreto et al., 2003; Dunn, 2001; Lovins and Williams, 1999).”