The Phoenix Project: Shifting from Oil to Hydrogen -- Revised Second Edition

Because of the exponential nature of the global energy and environmental problems, The Phoenix Project calls for the U.S. to shift from fossil and nuclear fuels to wind-powered electrolytic systems with wartime speed. Approximately 12 million one-megawatt wind machines would be needed to generate all of the U.S. current energy requirements (i.e. 100 quadrillion Btus). Given that wind machines are similar to an automobile from a manufacturing perspective, and given that 17 million vehicles are manufactured each year in the U.S., the 12 million wind systems could be mass-produced and installed in less than 24 months once the tooling is in place. As such, it is possible for the U.S. to be energy independent, with a pollution-free and inexhaustible energy resource within 5 or 10 years. That would include the deployment of a an interstate superconducting hydrogen pipeline system that would carry both electricity as well as hydrogen, as well as the modification of all of the automotive vehicles and power plants in the U.S. Such a transition of substance will have profound implications for the economy, the environment, and U.S. foreign policy.

Harry Braun is Chairman of the Hydrogen Political Action Committee that seeks to have the Congress hold the necessary Hydrogen Hearings that will be necessary to build the public support for shifting from fossil and nuclear fuels, to hydrogen manufactured by wind and other solar technologies. Harry has worked as an energy and environmental analyst for the past 30 years. He is Chairman and CEO of Sustainable Partners, a systems integration firm that is involved in a number of renewable energy projects. Harry Received a Bachelors degree from Arizona State University in 1971. His postgraduate research has focused on energy technologies and resources, as well as the on-going developments in molecular biology, protein engineering and nanotechnology. Harry is an Advisory Board Member of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy.