[PeaceBeWithYou]

Seems to be some trouble in the Hydrogen Utopia.

Enjoy.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Any engineer knows that Hydrogen is a lousy choice for fuel. It is widely available, but it makes for lousy returns on effort and costs.

[R. Scott]

Great – we’ll have clean emission cars, but making the clean fuel will cause massive air pollution at the refinery. Even if we switch to producing hydrogen by electrolysis, the power needed for this will cause more pollution at the generators – the same if we switch to electric cars. People will spend and extra $5,000.00 per car, and be stuck in cities that have hydrogen stations.

[sixmil]

A friend of mine was working on a high-efficiency carburetor and stumbled onto a way to convert gasoline and water into hydrogen gas and CO2. Too bad CO2 is considered a pollutant, but this can be minimized by using methanol instead of gasoline. His patent is here. His converted auto will probably never make it to market since the auto companies are developing their own gasoline reformers, except that they are using a catalyst since they are too stupid to do it with an atomizer and a little heat. This solution is really nice since there is no stored H2, it is simply produced as needed. It also nearly doubles fuel efficiency since the mix is 1 part water to 1 part gas. I say nearly since you lose something like 15% horsepower. My friend is now trying to sell it as a H2 feeder for fuel cells since they seem to be all the rage, but good luck finding a fuel cell that can even power a golf cart. Maybe it'll work well for powering homes or neighborhoods.