Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-02-03 Thread steve spence
11:27 AM Subject: Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something? robert luis rabello wrote: I've been waiting for a hydrogen economy for nearly forty years now. The fact that it hasn't happened yet should tell us all that this is an unreasonable idea. Not at all -- it just

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-18 Thread Alex McKinney
@yahoogroups.com To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something? Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:57:43 - I always like to post those tough chemistry questions since I am a chemistry major in college right now, and the current one is one I believe I asked

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-18 Thread Ken Provost
robert luis rabello wrote: I've been waiting for a hydrogen economy for nearly forty years now. The fact that it hasn't happened yet should tell us all that this is an unreasonable idea. Not at all -- it just tells me that Big Oil can use their stranglehold on US politics to kill any

RE: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-18 Thread kirk
Message- From: Alex McKinney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 5:12 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something? I believe fuel-cell technology uses hydrogen and combines it with oxygen to make water

RE: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-18 Thread kirk
use. Kirk -Original Message- From: Ken Provost [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 9:27 AM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something? robert luis rabello wrote: I've been waiting for a hydrogen economy

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-18 Thread Steve W
That's what burning is: the combination of a substance with oxygen. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You ask the question of a fuel cell burning hydrogen. Your error is in the question. A fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen in a chemical reaction not in combustion to produce electricity,

[biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-17 Thread jmwelter
I always like to post those tough chemistry questions since I am a chemistry major in college right now, and the current one is one I believe I asked a while back, but got no response. In a car powered by a fuel cell where hydrogen is essentially the main fuel source, or solely the fuel

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-17 Thread Brian Dickinson
@yahoogroups.com Subject: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something? I always like to post those tough chemistry questions since I am a chemistry major in college right now, and the current one is one I believe I asked a while back, but got no response. In a car powered by a fuel cell

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-17 Thread jetoth123
You ask the question of a fuel cell burning hydrogen. Your error is in the question. A fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen in a chemical reaction not in combustion to produce electricity, heat, and water. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-17 Thread Patrick McBrady
To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:57 PM Subject: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something? I always like to post those tough chemistry questions since I am a chemistry major in college right now, and the current one is one I believe I asked a while

Re: [biofuel] hydrogen powered cars - am I missing something?

2002-01-17 Thread robert luis rabello
jmwelter wrote: In a car powered by a fuel cell where hydrogen is essentially the main fuel source, or solely the fuel source, what is used to burn it? Oxygen in the air. It may sound like a dumb question, but the atmosphere is 80% nitrogen. If air was used to burn hydrogen, then