Hydrogen Cars

Discovery-News.com: The Hydrogen Road Tour makes a pit stop in Washington, D.C., and Jorge Ribas takes a hydrogen fuel cell-powered car for a spin around the block.

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[McQuaidm]

Are you crazy? Your worried about water vapor? WTF?? That is by far the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. What about "RAIN" that caused by water vapor! I can't believe you after all the shit our society has gone through with wars etc over oil and gas your worried about fucking water vapor.

[jnnycliff]

I just wait for the car that will drive without refill anything. so H2 make E, then E push the car run, and the car pulling the 4 motors on the wheels to covert it back to E and use the E to break down the H2O, then we use solar panel to cover my car and charge up the battery when i'm parking the malls. Ohh and when i make more E than i can use I can just plug my car to my home wall to sale the E back to PG&E. How about that? sound like America Dream?

[reyshakquit]

YAY!!!!!!!! HYDROGEN IN 2020 I CANT BELIEVE I WILL LIVE TO SEE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMYGASH wub wub wub wub

[FutebolFanatico001]

@an65001 wat the hell is windows whistler 2419? i dont like your attitude...

[OfficeThug]

@FutebolFanatico001 China makes a LOT of bad policy choices, that's for sure, but investing in molten salt reactors isn't one of them. Whether nuclear is renewable or not is a mute argument thanks to E=mc2. Nuclear will always be some millions of times more energy dense than any kinetic, thermal, solar, or chemical renewable. Nuclear's limit right now lies with bad choice of fuel (uranium) and bad reactor designs which drop conversion efficiencies below 1%. Thorium MSRs could get 90%+ efficiency

[an65001]

@FutebolFanatico001 Be useful and give me the link to Windows Whistler 2419 instead.

[FutebolFanatico001]

@an65001 .......no, not only hydrogen. that has nothing to do with a large motor. look up the properties of an electrical motor and then you will understand. look for the graph of rpm and torque of an electric motor versus an internal combustion engine.

[an65001]

@FutebolFanatico001 Really!? Well then only Hydrogen can power such a large motor.

[FutebolFanatico001]

@OfficeThug yeah i get it. but the reactors you mentioned are also nuclear powered. i am personally in favor of nuclear, but many people and countries are currently debating its further use in the future. also, nuclear energy is not technically defined as a "renewable" energy source. i don't think it is at least. china is also achieving its 8% economic growth at the expense of the environment. the damage caused is equal to the money they made from the 8% increase. this is y i dont support china.

[FutebolFanatico001]

@an65001 also, electric motors have a larger useful torque band than any internal combustion engine currently known. so why do you not want an electric motor again?

[OfficeThug]

@FutebolFanatico001 My point is, although biodiesels are better than petrodiesels, they're not good enough of an answer to our problems, especially when they threaten food security and still support global warming to an unacceptable extent. We have far, far cleaner and more renewable sources of energy at our disposal already: Molten salt reactors (like the ones China is rapidly developping) could provide compact and ultra-clean electricity to power a battery-based economy for instance.

[OfficeThug]

@an65001 First off, hydrogen rises very quickly and burns upwards making explosions IMPOSSIBLE, while diesels tend to hug the ground and don't disperse safely. Second off, ALL motors produce torque. Finally, stop reading Biodieselforums IMMEDIATELY. It's bullshit. Alkyl esters are NOT less toxic than table salt, otherwise they would not be labelled as environmentally toxic and dangerous to aquatic ecologies.