[John Jamieson]

Your Comments????

[aruanan]

Excellent.

[Old Professer]

Carbon has an atomic weight of 12; one horsepower=746watts; the propane(parafin)chain formula for hydrocarbons is C_n+H_2n+2 (methane:CH₄);recalculate your numbers and repost so we can review this, please.

[RAWGUY]

I experimented with electrolisys of water to produce hydrogen in chem Lab in '67 and found that it works but is most ineffecient. My findings support your post in all respects and I have argued this point for about 35 years now but not as elloquently as you have here.

Thanks for the great post,

RAWGUY

[Petronski]

I love it.

Look, there's pie in the sky!

[The FRugitive]

Make ultra-safe Nuclear reactors and we have unlimited clean burning fuel for cars.

[TheHydroBaron]

I recommend Roy McAlister, president of the American Hydrogen Association. After looking into Hydrogen and why it hasn't been made a reality, I came across the individual previously mentioned. Although I thought purchasing three of his DVD's and his book would be another dead end an associate and I converted a small lawn mower engine's carburetor by removing it and feeding a Hydrogen fuel line directly behind the intake port. The mower runs just as good or even better than when it was on gasoline.

[Fiddlstix]

.....Hydrogen, made from water, is thus an energy storage media like a battery, not an energy source.....

Very true.

Question: Why just use the hydrogen? Why not use the oxygen too?
In other words, build an engine with "injectors" of some sort and inject the proper amount of hydrogen and oxygen into the combustion chamber.
It seems to me like that might increase the efficiency of the overall process as opposed to just using the hydrogen and "throwing the oxygen away" as it were.

Just asking.

[BamaGirl]

What a great article! I tell me husband that we shoud "burn it all" all the time! Thanks for writing this up!

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Plenty of sun out here in the desert southwest. Almost all of it is wasted.

[DelphiUser]

Chemical Batteries like lead acid, gel deep cycle and even the lithium have life times that are short by a cars lifetime definition. They are heavy; they are a problem in an accident; Disposal is a problem. Chemical storage is bay far the best way to store the energy for a car. What’s wrong with a nuclear power plant producing hydrogen to fuel our cars with, and hydrogen stations with “Spare” tanks that a re a universal size and shape (Vehicles could use one or more, i.e. bigger vehicles four or six, etc) We can then drive cross country, stopping for refills as we do now, and we can not pollute (Fusion reactors can eat the waste of Fission reactors, so no waste to bury.) no pollution, no oil from Saudis what’s the down side?


Oh, the oil companies stocks would drop like a stone and these reactors would be terrorist target.

[muir_redwoods]

Good Luck, I've been hearing that we are "20 years away from fusion" for 40 years now