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- From: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann)
- Subject: Re: Any info. on hydrogen power for cars??
- Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix-System
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 00:55:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <L728CSD@zelator.in-berlin.de>
- References: <1992Nov17.131916.12009@bsu-ucs> <1992Nov18.185800.11997@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In <1992Nov18.185800.11997@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov17.131916.12009@bsu-ucs> 00bndaniels@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >>I would like to know if any US car company will make or research
- >>for a car that can run on hydrogen. I only know of VW and BMW
- >>that are doing research on makinga car that can run on hydrogen
- >>I believe that hydrogen would be a great fuel for cars, and power
- >>plants because the only by-product when it is burned is water.
- >>Any information on this topic is greatly appreciated.
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- >Hydrogen is a tricky fuel to make work in an IC engine. Pre-ignition
- >is a severe problem. And of course the high chamber temperature and
- >pressure still generates oxides of nitrogen, only the HC emissions are
- >eliminated. Current three way catalysts, to reduce the NOx, require HC
- >to fuel them to the necessary high temperature. I suppose a fuel rich
- >mixture of hydrogen could be used instead, but that could lead to a risk
- >of cat converter explosions and cost mileage. The real problem, of course,
- >remains tankage. It takes a lot of hydrogen to equal the energy content of
- >a gallon of gasoline, and hydrogen is extremely low density at STP. Large
- >very high pressure tankage, or large cryogenic tankage is required to
- >replace the gasoline tank's energy capacity.
-
- >Using an external combustion engine (see discussion of steam power) would
- >eliminate most of the NOx and all of the pre-ignition problems, but wouldn't
- >solve the tankage problem. Hydrogen is less dense than air.
-
- >Gary
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- Maybe you should all take a look at Stanley Meyers Water Fuel cell,
- which is a new way of generating hydrogen inside the car from water !!
-
- So you just have water inside your tanke... This is the best
- solution..
-
- Best regards, Stefan Hartmann, c/o Ingenierbuero Gatz & Hartmann.
- email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de
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