Title: Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe - Enhanced Edition
Publisher: Queen's Printer
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0980967406
ISBN 13: 9780980967401
Binding: Paperback
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Weight: 1.75 pounds

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Resolving the escalating issues surrounding climate destabilization will be one of the most important environmental challenges we face this century. Dr. David Sanborn Scott, one of Canada's foremost energy experts, clearly demonstrates that we have only one real choice--Hydrogen. Using literate, accessible, sometimes lyrical but never trivial explanations, Smelling Land gives a clear and comprehensive examination of: The architecture of civilization's energy systems; critical role of energy currencies and widespread blunders when it is not recognized; How to evaluate environmental intrusion and general principles for environmental gentility; mechanisms and status of climate disruption; Sustainability and the REASONS for a coming Hydrogen Age; Energy source options; The applications of hydrogen systems; and How fast we can get to the Hydrogen Age, why, and what it will be like.

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Engineer, scientist and environmentalist, David Sanborn Scott has been active in energy system analysis, design and strategies for more than three decades. He is the vice-president (for the Americas) of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy. After receiving his doctorate in mechanical engineering and aeronautical sciences from Northwestern University, he joined the University of Toronto where he subsequently served as chair of Mechanical Engineering and founded the university's Institute for Hydrogen systems. He later joined the University of Victoria to found the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems. The institute is engaged in developing fuelcells, hydrogen production and storage technologies, and in evaluating feasible ways of integrating renewable sources. Scott chaired Canada's Task Force on Hydrogen Opportunities, which produced Hydrogen: National Mission for Canada, a report now internationally recognized for its prescience.

Scott consults for US and Canadian corporations and national laboratories. In 2006, he became the first Canadian awarded the internationally prestigious Jules Verne Award, for 'Outstanding Contributions to Hydrogen Physics, and Hydrogen Energy Sociology and Philosophy.' A year later, he received the inaugural D.Sc. (honorary) from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

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