The Hydrogen Economy: Opportunities and Challenges

This book is the first to highlight the opportunities and the challenges of introducing hydrogen as a potential energy source in a holistic manner, covering economic, technical and environmental points of view. The focus is on the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel in the transport sector, which is generally considered the major driving force for its introduction. Given the current controversy and popularity of the hydrogen issue, the book aims to provide, through its multi-disciplinary approach, a broad range of researchers and decision makers in academia and industry with a solid and wide-ranging knowledge base concerning the hydrogen economy. The analysis focuses primarily on the time horizon until 2030. The geographic scope of the book is global.