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Article: Hydrogen and the new energy economy: why we need an Apollo Mission for clean energy; Creating a whole new economy--one that no longer depends on oil--will require the best thinking from the brightest minds. Two energy researchers detail why this mission is urgently needed and outline what it will take to build a Hydrogen Economy.
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- The Futurist
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- March 1, 2005
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Shifting the global economy away from dependence on rapidly depleting supplies of oil to renewable, clean-burning hydrogen must happen sooner rather than later. Any thought that the transition can be gradually implemented over the next 40 to 50 years mistakenly assumes that there will continue to be enough cheap oil for the foreseeable future and that new discoveries and technological innovations can always fill in any gaps. Such assumptions are seriously flawed and imperil national and international stability.
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In 1956, Shell Oil geologist M. King Hubbert predicted that U.S. oil production (barrels pumped per year) would peak in ...