Ulf Bossel a une réflexion d'une pertinence et d'une lucidité vraiment époustouflantes. Docteur de l'Université de Berkeley en Californie et Président de l' European Fuel Cell Forum depuis 1994, il est à l'origine du concept d'Electron Economy.

Ulf Bossel:
 “An electron economy can offer the shortest, most efficient and most economical way of transporting the sustainable ‘green’ energy to the consumer (...) Electricity could provide power for cars, comfortable temperature in buildings, heat, light, communication, etc. In a sustainable energy future, electricity will become the prime energy carrier. We now have to focus our research on electricity storage, electric cars and the modernization of the existing electricity infrastructure.” 

Source: Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense -
  http://www.physorg.com/news85074285.html


Lire aussi: L'électron-économie: vite, SVP!
http://objectifterre.over-blog.org/article-22804914.html






+++++DIAPORAMA 1: 
http://www.efcf.com/reports/E16.ppt

+++++DIAPORAMA 2:
http://www.efcf.com/reports/E22.pdf

Interview:

Ben : Okay, so let us start talking about the sustainable energy path for us then. I know early in the discussion you were talking about the electron economy and I know that you have written papers talking about how today about 80% of our energy is derived from chemical energy and 20% from physical sources and the future will be pretty much exactly the opposite, so can you explain that a bit? What is chemical energy?

Ulf Bossel: Yes. What people need is physical energy. We need motion of vehicles, we need light, we need heat, and we need communication. These are all physical energy. People need chemical energy only for eating and drinking. Okay, that is what the people's needs are. Now, to satisfy these needs, engineers of the 18th, 19th or 20th century have developed a fantastic technology for the conversion of chemical energy of fossil origin into physical energy needed by people: steam engines, gas turbines, internal combustion engines and so on. All these inventions are fantastic. It is a fantastic technology, but in the future this technology will run out of fuel because there is not enough of oil, gas and coal left to drive our economy. Also, we may have political issues restricting access to fossil resources. The use of fossil fuels may further be restricted to stop global warming. Anyway, the renewable energy from wind, solar and so on is mainly harvested as electricity. Therefore, as fossil resources become depleted, the chemical energy base vanishes. Electricity from wind, water, waves, solar and ground heat will become the new energy base. Once electricity has become our source energy, we should not make the mistake to convert it into chemical energy like hydrogen in order to continue with energy technologies which were developed to convert natural gas or fossil fuels to electricity or motion, but we should find the courage to say, "Goodbye steam engines. Goodbye Carnot cycles. Here we are with electricity. We don't need you any longer."

Suite: http://canada.theoildrum.com/node/4077


Does a Hydrogen Economy Make Sense? 
http://www.efcf.com/reports/E13.pdf


Autres articles: http://www.efcf.com/reports  






 

Ulf Bossel

Dipl. Ing., ETH Zürich, Switzerland (1961)
Mechanical Engineering: Aerodynamics, Thermodynamics

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1968)
Rarefied Gas Dynamics, Molecular Beams

Assistant Professor, Syracuse University (1968-1970)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Group Leader, DFVLR, Göttingen, Germany (1970-1986)

Free molecular flow studies (space aerodynamics)

Founder and Manager of SOLENTEC, a consulting firm for

renewable energy and energy conservation (1978)

Fuel Cell Project Manager, ABB Baden, Switzerland (1986-1990)

Manager of ABB’s fuel cell activities in Europe and US

Fuel Cell Consultant and Developer (1990-to date)

Siemens, Mitsubishi, Statoil, Eniricerche, EPRI, Novem

European Fuel Cell Forum (1994 to date)

International Fuel Cell Conferences

www.efcf.com