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To: good_ash
the potential of Hyrdogen fueled transportation.

Didn't the Brits use this during WW 11 on their double decker busses? If so, I gues it really isn't new.

31 posted on 04/27/2002 12:26:17 PM PDT by Mark17
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To: Mark17
It's been used for a while, however the issue is the storage of the hydrogen - how to compress it and get enough storage to make it feasible for everyday use by the average joe. Right now it's like electic powered vehicles - pretty useful if you have a centralized fleet that only travels in a limited area, and then can come back for refueling at a central location. But the costs also make it prohibitive to adopt fleet wide.

IIRC, one of the more promising storage ideas was a honeycombed carbon fuel tank. My memory of the show is a little fuzzy, but I recall they mentioned the possibility of some hydrogen powered cars going 1000 or miles between refills.

32 posted on 04/27/2002 12:57:29 PM PDT by good_ash
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