You're mistaken about that myth my friend! The only economical way known
by human science to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen is the common
leaf. It's be a long time before they figure out a way to harness solar
energy to produce hydrogen fuel "on the fly" so to speak in a mobile
vehicle. The most efficient way known to crack water into its components
(the brute force method) is to heat it to super hot temps which requires
nuclear energy which we don't have the infrastructure to produce at this
time. Only nuclear energy can produce the tremendous heat necessary to
crack water and a conventional nuclear power plant isn't designed to do
so. In addition, hydrogen is such a light gas that storing it inside an
auto in quantities sufficient to power an auto the same distance a
gasoline powered vehicle can, takes a trunk sized pressure vessel
sufficiently strong enough to withstand the tremendous pressure of
liquefied hydrogen. Hydrogen as a fuel for automobiles is impractical
far into the future barring some major and I mean major scientific
breakthrough so your belief in a mystical water powered vehicle doesn't
(pardon the pun) hold water. Hybrid vehicles that have plugin capability
are the best solution currently available. Of course, when sufficient
quantities of plugin hybrid cars are on the road then the strain on the
electric power grid will take hundreds of billions of $'s to build new
nuke plants (pebble bed designs I hope) and beefed up transmission
capability which I predict over the next 20+ years will happen.
Certainly the younger members of the list will see something of the
sort. Someday crude oil will only be pumped out of the ground to produce
plastics and other hydrocarbon based chemical products. Have a good one.
Ben Ruset wrote:
A few years ago BMW showed off a 5 series that ran off water. It cracked the
water into hydrogen within the car itself.
Of course that tech won't ever see the light of day. :(
From: 007 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed Aug 17 13:26:05 CDT 2005
To: The Hardware List <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: RE: Re: [H] Gas prices
The most fuel efficient cars use heavy water.
007.
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Ben Ruset wrote:
It's funny, though, that the gas companies are posting record profits.
So I really wonder how much of this is an increase in oil price, and how
much is just an excuse to charge more for gasoline.
I look at it this way, assuming that a gas company wants to make 5% profit
on every gallon of gas, it's in thier interest to have thier costs go up
5% because then thier profit goes up too.
Instead of making 5cents on gas that costs them $1.00 to make they make 6
cents profit on gas that cost them $1.05 to make (Or similar, you get my
point =)
Also, the gas we have now was made with oil that cost $50/barrel instead
of oil that cost $65/barrel, yet we're being charged the $65/barrel price!
Christopher Fisk
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