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Re: does anybody know how a hydrogen engine works?
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Posted by buickanddeere on February 10, 2006 at 20:37:27 from (216.183.138.123):
In Reply to: Re: does anybody know how a hydrogen engine works? posted by John T on February 10, 2006 at 18:52:35:
It would take a pretty robust hydro service into every hydrogen filling station. Hundreds of new nuclear units would be required to power the system. Even at that, most of the H2 filling would have to be done during electrical "off peak".
The fuel cell and electric motor would be the way to go. A small battery bank for brief periods of extra power would be required on the vehicle as well.
We store tritium which is a radioactive isotope form of hydrogen at Darlington. The hydrogen is absorbed into a "sponge" inside a low pressure metal vessel. Not unlike storing acetylene in acetone for the oxy acetylene torque sets. As previously stated H2 is a real swine to contain as the little wee molecules pass through just about any material.
In my humble opinion running vehicles on grain/ethyl or better yet methyl alcohol would be the answer. Methyl can be made from steam and natural gas mixed in the presence of a catalyst. With abundant steam and hydrogen from nuclear power and reforming �low grade� carbon fuels into clean burning alcohol is a possibility.
We could also put up hundreds of thousands of windmills rated at 1.5Mw each.Use nuclear as base load and burn coal on "no wind" days to provide peaking power.
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