Hydrogen is the future of motoring
Discussion
roadend1981 said:
Search hydrogen fuel cell on YouTube and car run on water.
So if big oil companies have managed to stop all the different car companies on the planet from selling us cars that run purely on water then can you please explain to me why they haven't managed to get these videos off youtube?I'd love to know
A huge big evil group of companies that have people killed, companies shut down and have even got the laws of physics re written to protect themselves from us discovering that water burns can't get a crappy video off youtube.
Doesn't that see a trifle odd to you
DonkeyApple said:
For a list of funding scams and mentalists?
Where do you get the energy to break the bond between the atoms to create the gas?
Is the gas produced able to generate more energy than the energy required to break the initial bonds?
What has happened to the UK education system?
Second law thermal dynamics,the way to get round it,is using a 3 phase alternative current.Where do you get the energy to break the bond between the atoms to create the gas?
Is the gas produced able to generate more energy than the energy required to break the initial bonds?
What has happened to the UK education system?
Omshanti said:
As I have been writing several times in my previous posts in this topic, I am not trying to argue about the efficiency of the combustion engine vs the fuel cell electric motor as I know the latter is more efficient.
My whole point is that out of all the proposed alternative technologies, I like the hydrogen powered combustion engine because it would be the same as driving petrol cars and would keep everything we like about driving today in the future (that is of course if anybody tries to develop it).
Perhaps it won't take off as a practical technology in the future but nevertheless I wasn't trying to address its practicality.
If one day petrol runs out, any alternative energy source that allows cars to run just like petrol cars is an attractive technology to me.
That is all I am trying to say. Nothing more nothing less.
Regarding electric motors, is it possible to use manual transmissions on them?
I know they have a wide power band and do not require gears as much as combustion engines, but surely they must have a point where power is at its optimum and therefore to make the best gears would be required?
Don't bother wasting your energy (fnar) on Hydrogen, closed loop Methanol synthesis from CO2 is more efficient and far more practical as it requires minimal modification to existing vehicles.My whole point is that out of all the proposed alternative technologies, I like the hydrogen powered combustion engine because it would be the same as driving petrol cars and would keep everything we like about driving today in the future (that is of course if anybody tries to develop it).
Perhaps it won't take off as a practical technology in the future but nevertheless I wasn't trying to address its practicality.
If one day petrol runs out, any alternative energy source that allows cars to run just like petrol cars is an attractive technology to me.
That is all I am trying to say. Nothing more nothing less.
Regarding electric motors, is it possible to use manual transmissions on them?
I know they have a wide power band and do not require gears as much as combustion engines, but surely they must have a point where power is at its optimum and therefore to make the best gears would be required?
Edited by Omshanti on Wednesday 1st August 20:42
http://www.lotuscars.com/engineering/lotus-exige-2...
thinfourth2 said:
Omshanti said:
My whole point is that out of all the proposed alternative technologies, I like the hydrogen powered combustion engine because it would be the same as driving petrol cars
The nissan micra.
f
king boring car and the removal of the petrol engine and replacement of it by an electric motor could not make it any more boring. If anything it would make it more pleasantExhibit B
A pony
An animal of no f
king use what so ever. It has been made completely redundant by motorised transport. But you can still buy them. It has become a toy.So if you think that the future of fun motoring is Hydrogen you are hugely wrong. Modern cars are unfeasibly dull. If you think the coming wave of electric cars means the death of fun cars then you are also wrong as fun cars will carry on to exist as petrol won't vanish it will just get bloody expensive.
Regarding horses. They are unlikely to go extinct and their foods are not going to disappear either, but oil and therefore petrol will run out at some point. Who knows when but probably within the next half a century, and long before oil runs out it will be so expensive and rare that using them to run cars would be impossible. So why not celebrate an alternative energy technology which allows cars to have the same characteristics as petrol cars?
This is all I am doing. I am simply being excited with the prospect of hydrogen combustion engines for the reasons I mention above. Perhaps no one will develop it in the future but at least I know it's technically possible. That alone, in my opinion, is worth celebrating as a car enthusiast, and I decided to share my excitement about it in my first post here. I did not expect so much negative reaction towards it.
If you don't want to celebrate it, then so be it. It is none of my business.
Edited by Omshanti on Wednesday 1st August 23:17
The Wookie said:
Omshanti said:
As I have been writing several times in my previous posts in this topic, I am not trying to argue about the efficiency of the combustion engine vs the fuel cell electric motor as I know the latter is more efficient.
My whole point is that out of all the proposed alternative technologies, I like the hydrogen powered combustion engine because it would be the same as driving petrol cars and would keep everything we like about driving today in the future (that is of course if anybody tries to develop it).
Perhaps it won't take off as a practical technology in the future but nevertheless I wasn't trying to address its practicality.
If one day petrol runs out, any alternative energy source that allows cars to run just like petrol cars is an attractive technology to me.
That is all I am trying to say. Nothing more nothing less.
Regarding electric motors, is it possible to use manual transmissions on them?
I know they have a wide power band and do not require gears as much as combustion engines, but surely they must have a point where power is at its optimum and therefore to make the best gears would be required?
Don't bother wasting your energy (fnar) on Hydrogen, closed loop Methanol synthesis from CO2 is more efficient and far more practical as it requires minimal modification to existing vehicles.My whole point is that out of all the proposed alternative technologies, I like the hydrogen powered combustion engine because it would be the same as driving petrol cars and would keep everything we like about driving today in the future (that is of course if anybody tries to develop it).
Perhaps it won't take off as a practical technology in the future but nevertheless I wasn't trying to address its practicality.
If one day petrol runs out, any alternative energy source that allows cars to run just like petrol cars is an attractive technology to me.
That is all I am trying to say. Nothing more nothing less.
Regarding electric motors, is it possible to use manual transmissions on them?
I know they have a wide power band and do not require gears as much as combustion engines, but surely they must have a point where power is at its optimum and therefore to make the best gears would be required?
Edited by Omshanti on Wednesday 1st August 20:42
http://www.lotuscars.com/engineering/lotus-exige-2...
Edited by Omshanti on Wednesday 1st August 23:10
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