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AlanS17:

Now you're using you head!  ;D

ChadTower:


Switch cars temporarily?  Not viable.  May as well tell them to get a balloon.

My friend has a turtle with two heads.  It seems just fine.

shardian:

Hey everybody, chill out. I'll get Keanu Reeves on the phone, we'll play around with a big tub of water, a keyboard, and a lathe. Voila! Unlimited energy for everyone! :laugh2: :laugh2:


Oh, and about hydrogen. My senior project in college was to attempt to develop a small-scale, low cost hydrogen combustion engine. Not only is it not feasible, it is dangerous as hell. Could you imagine strapping a tank of hydrogen to every idiot on the road? Hehe, we had a backfire one time and me and my partner both almost pissed our respective pants. ;D

It is possible to adapt current fuel injected cars to hydrogen fuel, but hydrogen burns hotter than gasoline. You have to add nitrogen to the fuel to lower the temperature of the combustion, otherwise your engine would be toast in no time. Development of hydrogen engines on a large, commercial scale will never happen. The only people keeping the hydrogen dream alive are people nieve to what it entails, or politicians trying to earn sympathetic votes.

ChadTower:


Hydrogen engines are viable.  No one has disputed that.

Hydrogen replacing oil as automotive/home heating fuel is not viable, mostly because gathering and transporting hydrogen requires too much energy for it to be economically viable.  It is technologically feasible - it is not economically.

Hydrogen is actually safer than gasoline in terms of automotive accidents and the potential fuel related hazards.  Here is a good article explaining why.

boykster:

AFAIK, most of the talk of hydrogen powered cars becoming mainstream is not using hydrogen as a source of combustion, but rather using it to produce electricity using fuel cell technology, then having electric cars that run off of these fuel cells.

 :dunno

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