On Oct 16, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Roland <[email protected]> wrote: > Install the hydrogen tank in a ICE vehicle using standard propane equipment > that I was already running the engine on.
We're obviously veering sharply offtopic, now. Some years back I looked into doing pretty much that -- running H2 in, in this case, an aircooled '68 VW Westfalia Campmobile in the stock engine with a modified fuel intake system, similar to a propane conversion. I seem to remember that there was somebody in Tucson that had done it with a pickup truck of some sort. I'd use electricity from rooftop solar panels to analyze water and collect the hydrogen. The numbers just didn't add up. The volumetric density of H2 at sane pressures is abysmal and the embrittlement of the engine from constant exposure to H2 was going to shorten the lift of the engine enough that it didn't make environmental sense. And all that's before getting into the question of putting in an hydrogen storage tank plus the collection and compression facilities and how to get from storage tank to the vehicle...in the middle of suburbia... ...compare that with even a lead acid EV conversion and the difference is quite stark. Comparable driving range, potentially much superior driving performance, much better inherent safety, and _far_ easier recharging. And the entire system's energy efficiency is so much better with electric rather than all the waste of analyzing the hydrogen and compressing it and so on. That was the final piece of the puzzle. Both methods went from solar panels on the house's roof to propelling the car. One method was very direct and simple and efficient; the other was an insane and wasteful Rube Goldberg kludge. The fool cell is only marginally better than running H2 in an internal combustion engine (which most any engine built for gasoline will happily do with no more than modifications to the intake and operating parameters like timing). Even still, lead acid would have a fool cell beat...and, with modern battery chemistries? There's no comparison. 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/20151016/db7f33e1/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
