USING HYDROGEN FROM HYDRO-ELECTRICITY TO ALLEVIATE CARBON-DIOXIDE EMISSIONS IN EASTERN CANADA

As individuals, Canadians are the fourth largest producers of carbon from carbon dioxide in the world-over 4 tons of carbon per person per year. This paper considers existing and proposed growth in fossil fuel consumption to the year 2005 in the Atlantic region of Canada (consisting of the four Atlantic provinces: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island). The paper indicates first that recent Canadian government figures show an increased demand for indigenous coal in the Atlantic region (from some 95 PJ in 1984 to a projected figure of over 212 PJ in 2005) while at the same time forecasting low or negative population growth. There follows an examination of the results of a computer model that offers the means by which a 20% cut in carbon dioxide emissions can be achieved through the replacement of fossil fuels by hydrogen.