There is an article on internet somewhere on a V8 hydrogen car that runs with no throttling, like a diesel and gets diesel like economy. Hydrogen burns over a wide range of mixture, down to 5%.
-----Original Message----- From: EV [mailto:ev-boun...@lists.evdl.org] On Behalf Of Ben Goren via EV Sent: Thursday, 21 August 2014 10:06 a.m. To: Mark Abramowitz; Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Vehicle-apartheid! RI law punishes EV & hybrid drivers On Aug 20, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Mark Abramowitz via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: >> Other Hydrogen systems use the hydrogen as fuel for the ICE. > > I'm not aware of any of these, but would certainly be interested in learning about where it is being done. Regular gasoline engines are, for the most part, equally happy burning stoichiometric mixes of gasoline, propane, or hydrogen gas. Replace the fuel delivery system to provide that mixture to the combustion chambers and the rest will run just fine. There are caveats. Energy density is different, so power production differs. Compressibility of the gas mixtures differ, so you need different timing for optimum results. And hydrogen does really nasty things to metals and gaskets with prolonged exposure. But the basic mechanics are the same. Wikipedia has a good article for a starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_internal_combustion_engine_vehicle Note that this doesn't apply to diesel engines...but, with those, you can substitute jet fuel, kerosene, or olive oil for diesel with (similarly relatively) minor necessary modifications. Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140820/a84e7a6f /attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
