Fuel Cells By Vincent Iacono Copyright 2009
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Motor vehicles contribute to more than a quarter of the United States’ carbon dioxide emission and emit six hundred ninety-three million seven hundred fifty thousand (693,750,000) tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (Wikipedia 2009). While the United States has the biggest carbon emissions, it is safe to say that developing countries such as China and India, which have three times the amount of people that there are in the U.S., will certainly pass them in the next decade. During the past ten years, the automobile industry has been working hard to introduce new methods to make new cars more fuel efficient. There have been many different results from this work and research, most notably, the hybrid car which runs on electricity and that you can plug in such as the Chevrolet Volt. I would like to do my own research in the realm of fuel cells, an old form of renewable energy that has recently attracted attention in the media because it needs only water to run. For my science project, I will try using variants of water, and hopefully be able to add to scientific knowledge and be able to make this form of energy more efficient. The purpose of my experiment is to make the common fuel cell more efficient.
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