You might get some answers here. Found it a while ago while looking for other ways to power engines. First topic is the previously mentioned skateboard car with pictures.
-----Original Message----- From: "jmwelter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:57:43 -0000 To: biofuel@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 where hydrogen is essentially the > main fuel source, or solely the fuel source, what is used to burn > it? It may sound like a dumb question, but the atmosphere is 80% > nitrogen. If air was used to burn hydrogen, then some of that > hydrogen would result in ammonia being produced. Along with the > desirable water. Of course, if the oxygen used to burn were > generated through hydrolysis there wouldn't be a problem there, or if > the hydrogen was used in such a way that it never really escaped the > engine and went back into storage as fuel (hydrolyze in some way to > return it to free hydrogen gas). > > It seems to me that you would have to haul oxygen tanks with you, and > the emissions from such a vehicle, if not burning hydrogen with pure > oxygen, would have to be treated with a catalytic converter, so in > the end, you've come full circle. I am not sure if ammonia and > oxygen would revert to water and nitrogen gas if sent through a > catalytic converter. > > Any ideas? Or am I totally off on my reasoning here? > > JEFF > > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Access Your PC from Anywhere Check Email & Transfer files - Free Download http://us.click.yahoo.com/_WCYWA/3XkDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
