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The Change To Hydrogen

            Why are we as Americans so afraid to change? Even if it is a change for the better? The world has been using oil coal and other petroleum products to power just about everything that moves for the last 150 years. Yet most cars in the United States only get 10-20 miles a gallon and even the "good" ones can get only a petty 20-50 miles a gallon. So why do we put up with the inefficiency when there are far better alternatives out there? Such as hydrogen, which was discovered hundreds of years ago. Hydrogen has long been known for its explosive properties and abundance in the universe. Hydrogen can do just about everything conventional fuels can do but better. .
             Hydrogen can be "packaged" in several ways, as a fuel gas in a H2/02 powered engine or the newly devised solid state pellet of hydrogen isotopes that contains about the equivalent of 5000 cubic feet of hydrogen and is broken down and releases gas into the second chamber where it goes to the engine for use. One reason that hydrogen power has not taken off is that there are thousands of jobs in the petroleum and coalfields. Really who would want to own a car that requires about 20-30 cents per mile in gas expenses when you could basically pull up to the water hose every month and fill your tank with something about 20 cents every 2000 or so miles? So demand for petroleum products would sky dive and thousands of jobs would be lost and no one except the Water Company, car Alternator/generator Company and the battery company would profit from it. People would also so angry about losing their jobs over such a change and boycott the automotive companies making hydro-cars and cause havoc for the people trying to "upgrade" us to a better system of working. I mean everything in a car has changed but the engine stays essentially the same. It's commonly known that large oil companies have been paying off the automakers to keep all cars under the 40-mile per gallon range.


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1. Relationship Between Catalase and Hydrogen Peroxide

... expand as quickly as it can. To make the experiment fair we will change only one variable and leave the others all the same such as the temperature and the pH. We would first do a preliminary experiment to find out the smallest amount of catalase and hydrogen peroxide to use without the experiment taking too long to react. Plan The variable that I am going to keep the same is the concentration of the hydrogen peroxide. I would experiment with five ... different concentrations of hydrogen peroxide and leave the concentration of the catalase ... ...

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2. Hydrogen Bonding as Essential for Life

... slightly delta-negative charged atoms such as the Oxygen from another water molecule forming hydrogen bond. Rusty L. Myers (2006) Defines high heat specific capacity as the measure of energy needed to change the temperature of 1g of a substance by 1C. Hydrogen bonding increases the strength between water molecules that is why water requires a lot of energy to raise the temperature compared to other fluids without hydrogen bonds. This is very useful when ... actively the body is maintaining its temperature at 37C. Having 37C as the core temperature of the human body suggested by ... ...

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3. Hydrogen Bonds and Symmetry in Protons

... phase are around 1200. The theoretical values calculated from the lattice constants also agrees with the experiment values. Comparing phase III and phase II, there is only a slight difference in the domain angle. Thus, it is implied that the change in crystal structure is slight at II–III phase transition. These domains changes due to the hydrogen bonds that are formed when the O atoms in 2 tetrahedral ... SeO4 go close to one another. The oxygen ... atom in the middle would be wobbling around and it does not have a ... ...

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4. The Scientific Method

... bonding is called hydrogen bonding. In summary, a hydrogen bond is a weak electrostatic force caused ultimately by the low electronegativity of hydrogen. It is the hydrogen bonding of water that creates many of its properties - properties needed for life on Earth. The cohesion of water - its ability to stick to itself - is necessary for water to move up and out of a plant. The hydrogen bonding of water makes it resist temperature change better than ... most liquids and enables water to remain a liquid over a wide temperature range. It is the hydrogen bonding of water that enables water ...

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5. Hydrogen Bonding in Water

... of these forces by far. Water stands out even from the H-bonding compounds ( H2O, HF, NH3 ) because of its structure and ability to create two hydrogen bonds per molecule, as opposed to only one by HF and NH3. Water is able to form two hydrogen bonds per molecule, and with the addition of the weaker forces, water has extremely strong intermolecular bonds. This accounts for its surface tension ... accounts for water's high melting and boiling points, as much more input heat energy is needed to break the H-bonds and change the state of matter of water. Water's latent heat is also extremel...

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6. Lab - Effects of pH on the Activity of Catalase

... a measure of the concentrations of hydrogen ions in a solution. The higher the hydrogen ion concentration, the lower the pH. A change in pH above or below will affect the enzyme rate of reaction and the actual activity of the enzyme. Changes in pH lead to the breaking of the ionic bonds that hold the tertiary structure of the enzyme in place. As a result, the active site of the enzyme denatures resulting in the substrate not being able to fit like a "lock ... and key" mechanism. Hypothesis I predict that the outcome ... ...

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7. Hydrogen Fuel and Electric Cars

... expensive to own a hydrogen powered car, and there are few hydrogen fueling stations. Now that we have figured out the solution to our problem, you would think that we would've shifted to this new hydrogen energy. Unfortunately the idea of hydrogen fuel needs to become more popular. Furthermore, we as a society need to shift from our natural habits and make a change that is better for ourselves, the economy, and the planet. The world needs to ... work together to solve this problem. Countries are too competitive ... ...

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8. The Forces Maintaining Protein Structure

... level. Non-covalent interactions are also a factor at the quaternary level, where they can be used to bring different subunits together and allow binding of cofactors to allow the protein to work efficiently. A well-known factor effecting proteins, (namely enzymes) is pH. pH is a scale used to show the hydrogen-ion concentration of a solution. If pH changes significantly it can change the ionization state of residue side-chains, affecting a range ... of interactions, such as the previously mentioned dipole-dipole forces. If change in pH is significant enough, denaturation occurs, result...

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9. Hydrogen Instead Of Gasoline

... other external cost are included- (1998, Worldwatch institute, WWW). Therefore based on these calculations hydrogen fuel may eventually become competitive. Although this statement seems to me to be somewhat biased, because taxes seem to be included in gasoline prices and in hydrogen prices not. Significant change to hydrogen as a power source could be the development of a so-called FUEL CELL. "Fuel cell is an electric cell in which chemical ... energy from the oxidation of a gas fuel is converted directly to electrical energy in a continuous process- (2000, CD ... ...

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