Download or read book A History of Hydrogen Energy, digital original edition written by Peter Hoffmann and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. An invisible, tasteless, colorless gas, it can be converted to nonpolluting, zero-emission, renewable energy. In this BIT, Peter Hoffmann makes the case for hydrogen as the cornerstone of a new energy economy, offering a history of the technology from the nineteenth century to the present and introducing the concept of “hydricity.”