HYDROGEN-RICH AUTOMOTIVE FUELS: FUTURE COST AND SUPPLY PROJECTIONS

The long-range outlook is for sharp increases in automotive fuel prices, particularly in relation to diminishing fossil (oil, coal) resources. The future costs of carbon-rich fuels are predicted to be four times current prices by 1990 or earlier when they will begin to be supplanted by hydrogen-rich fuels, such as propane and methane. About 50 years hence, hydrogen-rich fuel costs will have escalated ten - to twentyfold, at which time cryogenic hydrogen or methane will become the most economic fuel for transportation vehicles. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings 9th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, San Francisco, 26-30 August 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10016-5990
• Authors:
  • HOFFMAN, G A
• Conference:
  • Proceedings 9th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, San Francisco, 26-30 August 1974.
• Publication Date: 1974

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 934-940

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coal; Costs; Crude oil; Energy; Forecasting; Fossil fuels; Fuels; Hydrocarbons; Liquid hydrogen; Methane; Propane
• Old TRIS Terms: Propane fuel
• Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00095352
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 29 1975 12:00AM