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To: TigerLikesRooster
“Thanks for your informative discussion.”

You're welcome, but there was an error in the forth paragraph from the bottom of my post that I correct below.

“If you got lucky and got an 8% interest only loan to pay the cost of capitalizing Dr. Auty's contraption, the fuel cost would not be the $1.80 to $3.00 per kilogram that Dr. Auty claimed, but rather it would be about $6.24 to $12.47 per kilogram. (The number of kilograms per year equals 44E9 J divided by 140E6 J per kilogram of H2. At a cost of $500 per square meter, capitalization cost for 49 square meters of fuel cell would be $24,500 and the annual interest would be $1,960.)”
In addtion to what I posted in my earlier post, another pitfall to Dr. Auty's fuel cell idea is with the tank that would be necessary to carry the liquid hydrogen. In his example of using this hydrogen to power an automobile, a 12 gallon gasoline tank would weigh about 20 pounds, but a tank for LH would have to hold 45 gallons, to provide the same mileage capacity, and the empty weight of this LH tank would be close to 400 pounds and would be bigger than a 55 gallon drum! (Look at your own car and try to figure where you could hide a 55 gallon drum!)

--Boot Hill

31 posted on 08/14/2004 6:46:52 PM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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To: Boot Hill

Hydrogen will be carried in an absorptive material inside a tank. Neither high pressure nor cryogenic tanks will be needed.


32 posted on 08/14/2004 10:17:26 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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