Sustainable Technology and Climate Change

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SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
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2SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Introduction
With the growing rise of global temperature owing to climate change, the issue of global
warming is one of the most serious concerns of the changing world of today. It is time to reduce
the dependency on fossil fuels and invest in technologies that promote cleaner sources of energy
and low emissions. With the advancement of technologies the development of environment
friendly technologies has been boosted and the commercialization of these technologies have
been attempted to reduce the emission from fossil fuels. The most common renewable sources of
energy consisting of the solar, wind and hydro power have contributed greatly to a greener
energy but in order to reduce the vehicular emission more sustainable technologies needs to be
derived (Fuelcelltoday.com, 2019). The Fuel Cell technologies have been one of the recent
developments in the sphere of green energy and the several elements have been used to derive
the required amount of the energy through conversion of potential chemical energy into electrical
energy.
William Robert Grove is credited with the invention of the first fuel cells in the form of a
voltaic cell. Grove had invented the fuel cell by exposing two different acids to the electrodes
Zinc and Platinum. The acids were separated by a porous ceramic pot. The invention by Grove
was made in 1839 and was the first to represent that association of oxygen and hydrogen can
produce electrical energy. He thus developed the first fuel cell producing electrical energy by
combining hydrogen and oxygen in a controlled apparatus (Blomen & Mugerwa, 2013).
The hydrogen fuel cell generates energy through the process of electrolysis by generating
hydrogen and then combining oxygen as a fuel to generate electricity. The process being a
chemical reaction involving gases available in the natural environment do not emit or produce