Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

摘要

Clean energy technologiesusing hydrogen as a storagemedium are gradually making thetransition from a vision to atechnological demonstration and finallyto industrial reality. The recent worldwideefforts towards clean transport, and theimpressive growth in the use of fluctuatingrenewable power sources such as wind or solarto generate electricity, are stimulating a reneweddrive towards a "hydrogen economy".The topic has been covered from the very beginning in the proceedings of the series of World Hydrogen Energy Conferences (WHEC) that began in 1976. The volume Hydrogen and Fuel Cells: Fundamentals, Technologies and Applications is a collection of contributions from the 18th WHEC, which took place on May 16th to 21st, 2010, in Essen, Germany. These cover a wide range of topics, starting from scientific and technical fundamentals and leading on to strategic, political, socio-economic, and market issues, as well as perspectives on infrastructure and applications.