Yamani sees 'end of the oil era' and hydrogen future

 

Yamani sees 'end of the oil era' and hydrogen future

Publication Date:23-March-2006
02:30 PM US Eastern Timezone
Source:Financial Express



Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani, the former Saudi oil minister, said the main
source of energy in the future will be hydrogen, causing ''the end
of the oil era.'' The high price of oil is causing consuming
nations to more rapidly develop alternative energy sources, Yamani said
today in London, where he is chairing a conference for the Centre for
Global Energy Studies, which he founded.

''The price will remain high for some time until the major oil
consumers will be able to be independent from oil, especially from the
Gulf region,'' he said. ''We have seen the future: The main
source of energy will be hydrogen. It will be the end of the oil
era.''

Yamani was Saudi Arabia's oil minister from 1962 to 1986. The
conference, to discuss geopolitics and the future of energy, is being
attended by natural resources ministers and other officials from
countries including the U.K., Brazil, Canada and Mexico, as well as
representatives of major oil companies including BP Plc and Kuwait
Petroleum Corp.Yamani said political conflicts could cause the price of
oil to go higher, leading to a global economic decline.
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Yamani is much too well-educated to actually believe that hydrogen can be an
energy
SOURCE. Carrier, possibly, but not a source. I wonder what he really said?

Gordon Richmond

 

Per Gordon Richmond:

energy

I've always wondered if hydrogen could be a realistic carrier for solar power
from the really-hot/sunless areas of the world to the consumers of the world.

I guess greater minds than mine have mulled this over... anybody got a read to
recommend?
--
PeteCresswell

 

Next energy source for this world will be WATER (H2O)

 


He's trying to send us off in search of the Wild Goose.  If only
hydrogen _were_ a SOURCE of energy we'd be all set, but it's just a
storage medium.