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Daniel Sperling Debates Hydrogen & Fuel Cells Online at PBS.org, August 2005
Make up your own mind about the future of hydrogen as an automobile fuel during an online debate led by UC Davis transportation fuels expert Daniel Sperling and "The Hype About Hydrogen" author, Joseph Romm.
Excerpt from UC Davis News & Information article
At the Web site of a PBS television program, Sperling, the director of the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, is debating Joseph Romm, executive director and founder of the Center for Energy & Climate Solutions.
The "NOVA scienceNOW" Web site contains a number of resources for information and discussion about hydrogen fuel cell cars. "[They] promise pollution-free driving, but will we see them anytime soon?" ask the site editors. In the Point/Counterpoint feature, Sperling and Romm are each writing six short essays on the status and prospects for solving "the four most fundamental technological and economic challenges" to hydrogen-fueled transportation, as noted by a 2004 National Academies report (which Sperling co-authored).
The "scienceNOW" site also features an interactive fuel-cell car; a primer on
how fuel cells work; a 14-minute TV "scienceNOW" news story; and a discussion
forum.