Actions and Policies 

Roy McAlister

Except from 'The Solar Hydrogen Civilization'

Any program to do so that depends upon a central government’s subsidy or grant will cost more than if grassroots entrepreneurs find ways to launch the Renewable Resources Revolution.  The International Renewable Resources Institute, Clean-Air Lotteries, and utilization of government lands in leases to renewable resources enterprises have been suggested as ways for communities to gainfully compete in the Race to Save Civilization. Communities can send delegates to the International Renewable Resources Institute for technology transfers and to develop business plans that successfully compete in the world market for capital. Communities with clean air and water will attract more new businesses along with more tourists and vacationers.  More investor confidence in needed new ventures to expand energy independence will follow as other communities seek higher living standards. Local non-profit administration of such Clean-Air Lotteries can be designed to be much more efficient and faster in producing clean air and local energy independence than waiting for federal taxes to be sufficiently allocated to attempt the same transition by bureaucratic central planning and political processes.  

What local, state, and federal governments could do well however is to guarantee bonds that finance new ventures to make, use, and sell goods and services that provide energy independence. Local and national governments could provide tax and regulatory incentives for development of renewable resources. In the USA, federal and state governments could also allow new renewable energy ventures to participate in fair competition by elimination of the $100 billion in direct and indirect annual subsidies that encourage depletion of fossil and nuclear fuels.   

Improved return on the investment that has been made in engines is shown in Table 11.14. Existing engines now applied to transportation, farming, and electricity generation applications can be retrofitted to use hydrogen and clean the air, last longer, and produce more power.  Conversion of such engines to interchangeable operation on hydrogen or petrol will create the market pull that is needed for entrepreneurs to launch hydrogen production operations and filling stations. Interchangeable operation on petrol will enable vehicles to smoothly return to fossil fuels if they need to travel outside of emerging hydrogen corridors.

Publication in March 2003

TABLE 11.14

Shed Tests with Hydrocarbon Contaminated Air to Compare Emissions from Engine Converted to Hydrogen with Emissions from same Engine on Gasoline. 

ppm = parts per million concentration both tests without catalytic reactor in exhaust system gasoline engine operated according to manufacturers specifications hydrogen engine operated without air throttling.