Dr. Dan Udovic

CTO, Processor Innovations Corp., Autonomous-Capable Hybrid Power Systems

Deputy Director, Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (INETS),
Stevens Institute of Technology

If you feel strongly, as I do, about the wasteful extraction and burning of fossil fuel at a rate one million times faster than its ecological time to create, I urge you to join, collaborate, and contribute to the Hydrogen Association’s ongoing mission to investigate, prototype, vet, and commercialize the best technologies available to equitably provide alternative clean energy.

Personally, as a physicist, advanced technology R&D engineer, and practicing NJ professional engineer, I believe that the clean local manufacture of hydrogen-based carbon neutral liquid fuels from globally available renewable energy, atmospheric CO2, and nitrogen feedstocks represents the best (cheapest, fastest, and  most universal) path to meeting mankind’s growing heat, power, and transport clean energy needs.

The U.S. government’s present near-exclusive focus on hydrogen manufacture via water electrolysis method and the blanket replacement of heat engines and furnaces by electric motor-powered vehicles and heat-pumps is more costly and slower to implement, compared to also incenting the upfit of existing fossil-fuel burning vehicle and furnaces to consume climate-friendly carbon neutral liquid fuels.

For the United States to meet its 2030, 2035, and 2050 IPCC CO2-reduction commitments, it must incent and evaluate the leading technologies for rapid transition to fossil CO2-free clean energy, despite the possible impacts their success might have upon  existing electric grid infrastructure stakeholders.

We owe this consideration to the generations who follow us and who benefit or suffer from our successes or failures during this critical time.

~ Dan Udovic, Ph.D, P.E.