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Fuel cells provide an environmentally benign answer to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change, and in this respect, they should increasingly benefit from EU and international legislative and political evolutions, widely hostile to GHG emissions.
Fuel cells are part of the solution for tackling climate change because:
Fuel cells are part of the solution for tackling climate change because:
- Fuelled with hydrogen, fuel cells produce zero toxic emissions and no carbon dioxide at point of use.
- Even if the hydrogen is sourced initially from fossil fuels toxic, emissions are negligible and, given a fuel cell’s high efficiency, carbon dioxide emissions are reduced significantly over the full energy cycle.
- Hydrogen, derived from natural gas used in fuel cell powered vehicles, offers savings in GHG emissions of ~30% on a well-to-wheel basis compared to conventional technologies.
- Hydrogen from renewable sources (biomass or ‘surplus’ energy from intermittent sources) will produce negligible emissions of GHG.
- Being extremely clean and quiet fuel cells can be used wherever power is needed, including in sensitive urban locations
The deployment of fuel cells as carbon lean energy technologies can also create substantial growth, relying on high quality knowledge based employment and Europe’s economic competitiveness can benefit from this energy consumption paradigm switch.
FuelCellEurope constantly insists on the beneficial potential of fuel cells of a sustainable environment and how fuel cells is one of the key solution for Europe to successfully overcome the current energy/environment/competitiveness conundrum.
FuelCellEurope constantly insists on the beneficial potential of fuel cells of a sustainable environment and how fuel cells is one of the key solution for Europe to successfully overcome the current energy/environment/competitiveness conundrum.
Last update: 01-10-2009 at 11:13