HYDROGEN-VIA-ELECTRICITY: A CANDIDATE TRANSITIONAL TRANSPORTATION ENERGY SYSTEM CONCEPT

There is an expressed need to move transportation off oil. However, the strategic alternatives for creating a non-petroleum energy base for transportation are all long-term, extremely costly systems (hydrocarbon synfuels, electricity, hydrogen energy), each having technical and socio-economic limitations and constraints which will govern their relative contributions. To ''preserve the options'' while conducting positive steps to obviate the possibility of energy shortfalls affecting transportation in the meanwhile, a ''transitional transportation energy'' systems approach may be needed. A candidate concept, ''Hydrogen-via-Electricity'' (HVE), is described in terms of criteria for such a system, and also related to each of the strategic alternatives to establish compatibility. If implemented, the HVE Concept has the near-term potential for supporting a certain fraction of the energy needs of the following transportation subsectors: railroads, intercity trucking, urban and intercity buses, and selected fleet vehicle systems. (ERA citation 02:029068)

• Corporate Authors:

  Energy Research and Development Administration

  Division of Transportation Energy Conservation
  Washington, DC  United States  20545
• Authors:
  • Escher, WJD
• Publication Date: 1976-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 154 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cost effectiveness; Electricity; Electrolysis; Energy; Hydrogen; Hydrogen fuels; Hydrogen production; Hydrogen storage; Intercity transportation; Loads; Motor fuels; Public utilities; Railroads; Socioeconomic factors; Synthetic fuels; Transportation; Trusses; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation systems
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Old TRIS Terms: Load management
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Society; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00166123
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TEC-77/001, ETA Report PT-67
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1978 12:00AM