[Land-speed] Gasseous Hydrogen as Fuel...

Skip Higginbotham saltrat at pahrump.com
Sun Jul 15 11:37:13 MDT 2007


May be a good idea. Propane and diesel in combination seems to work well.
Skip


At 10:07 AM 7/15/2007, drmayf wrote:
>After watching the you tube video on the BMW effort for a hydrogen
>powered car, one question kept jumping up in my head.  Their method of
>just using H2 to replace gasoline seems to me to be a good short term
>solution. But I am always puzzeled by the statements that the only by
>produced is water, just plain old water. But it seems to me, that if you
>are also using the Oxygen from the atmosphere, you get all sorts of
>other gasses into the combuston chamber as well. Stuff like Nitrogen.
>Doesn't the buring of fuel with oxygen in the combustion chamber create
>enough heat to form the nitrides  and oxides of nitrogen?  Aren't those
>pollutants? Also, don't you still have the odd drop of oil that gets
>burned in the chamber as well? For sure most of the other junk may be
>greatly reduced but some is always produced, don't you think? Heck, if
>it does not burn stoichometically then maybe you get some other strange
>pollutants... like maybe Skip's ammonia as a by product. Or not. Just
>may be swapping one set of pollutants for a different set. Ditto for
>methanol. Burning alcohol generates some stuff far worse that what we
>are producing now.
>
>Maybe the interim solution is not to completely replace gasoline but to
>supplement it with H2, especially in the stop and go situations.
>Although it is gonna cost a lot becasue of the low energy density of the
>fuel.
>
>Still....
>
>mayf
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