Laptop Battery The Bush administration is answering domestic criticism of its environmental record with a U.S.-led international campaign to develop hydrogen as a clean fuel for a new generation of motor vehicles and electrical power cells over the next two decades.
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Thinkpad Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham is scheduled to address a European Commission energy conference in Brussels today to urge European leaders to join the hydrogen energy partnership, which is to be launched in October, according to conference participants. The venture's goals include a pooling of research on the production and distribution of hydrogen, development of fuel cells to convert the gas into electricity and safety and transportation regulations required in handling hydrogen.
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Laptop Computer The almost magical potential for hydrogen as a pollution-free fuel has given it immediate political currency, even though its widespread use lies many years away. The administration's goal is to have affordable hydrogen-powered vehicles available and a fuel distribution network in place by 2020.
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Desktop Computer Bush's advocacy of a hydrogen strategy has moved Democratic presidential candidates to advance their own hydrogen plans. It has also provoked complaints from environmental activists and clean energy advocates that the administration is using the hydrogen policy to justify increased subsidies for nuclear and coal power that could be used to produce the fuel.
Notebooks Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), a candidate for next year's Democratic presidential nomination, chided the Bush administration Friday for setting a distant goal for the widespread use of hydrogen fuels, while ignoring many short-term actions to address global warming and promote energy conservation and renewable fuels such as wind power.
Lenovo "The Bush administration's vision on hydrogen is akin to setting a goal to cure cancer decades from now and doing nothing to treat the millions who will get cancer in the meantime," Kerry said in a speech prepared for a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, political appearance.
Hard Drive Kerry and other Democratic rivals support a big increase in federal fuel economy standards and requirements that utilities generate part of their electricity supplies from wind and other renewable sources. The administration has opposed these steps, siding with the auto industry on the fuel economy issue and arguing that states should set renewable energy goals that fit their needs, as some have done, including Bush's home state of Texas.
Travelstar Jeremy Rifkin, a Washington-based consultant to the European Commission and author of a book promoting the hydrogen option, said the Bush initiative falls far short of Europe's strategy, which calls for a rapid increase in renewable energy sources.
Gateway "I think this is a very well-thought out effort for President Bush to claim it has a program for energy security and global warming," Rifkin said. "If it turns out that the game plan for the U.S. is to use hydrogen to further the interests of coal and nuclear industry, it's going to backfire politically."
Laptop Parts The administration countered that nearly half of its $39 million research budget on hydrogen production in fiscal 2004 focuses on renewable technologies, primarily splitting hydrogen from water with electrical energy. The electric power used for that option would have to be "clean," generated by wind or other non-polluting sources, the administration said. Research on extracting hydrogen from natural gas gets $12 million because that is the most common method now. Coal and nuclear options together get $9 million.
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Electronics Former Republican congressman Bob Walker said the important point is that the administration has put the hydrogen option on the table. "I'm just pleased somebody finally took leadership on a clean, abundant energy source that can be produced in every country. If Democrats want to come in with a competing program, I say that's wonderful. Let's debate how we get there," said Walker, chairman of the Wexler & Walker lobbying firm.
Canon The debate over hydrogen will be just a new version of the nation's current battles between industry and environmentalists over coal, nuclear, oil, gas and renewable fuel choices, said former Clinton administration energy official Dan Reicher. "Hydrogen can be part of the answer to climate change, or more of the problem, depending on how we make it. It's not a new source of energy. It's simply another way to deliver energy."
Desktop Pc By Peter Behr
Washington Post - 6/16/2003
Topic: Energy
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