Chapter 2 - Charting the Course: Toward a Cleaner, Richer Hydrogen Age

Today, climate scientists and the media’s reporting on climate change speak almost solely to the phenomena causing the problem, to the changes we might expect, and to the coping strategies we might adopt. Sometimes people speak to important but wholly insufficient, actions—like using fuel-efficient vehicles or windmills. Almost no one speaks of the single overarching strategy, hydrogen systems, that can give us a chance to escape climate catastrophe.

Although conceptually straight forward, implementing a hydricity strategy will require a major evolution in our energy system infrastructures. It will also require time—up to a decade for the first components, more than half a century for others. In contrast, we can quickly introduce helpful but insufficient starter tactics (such as hybrid cars and windmills). But while deploying starter tactics, it’s critical that we simultaneously begin to implement longer-term sustainable hydrogen systems. It can be done. And that is what Smelling Land is all about.

 

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