Comment Re:Can lithium really power all cars? (Score 1) 291
Just a note.
Hydrogen does not equal Fuel Cell. Sure, you can use a Hydrogen fuel cell... but that is not the only way to use Hydrogen.
Did you know...
You can power a gasoline engine on straight hydrogen, if you advance the timing enough? Hydrogen gas fed into the cylinder... works wonders.
You get hydrogen by running a DC current through water. It is that simple. Drop a 9volt battery in a glass of water. Watch bubbles form at each terminal. One side, the bubbles are Oxygen. The other side, Hydrogen.
There are improved electrolysis techniques which are making the possibility of hydrogen production on-the-fly feasible. This means that it is not only conceivable, but attainable to have a personal transportation vehicle, with an internal combustion that used to run on gasoline, that now runs on water.
Did you know it requires more energy to convert water to hydrogen than you get out of the hydrogen it produces? I know thats a smartass question and you knew this already and are just being silly with this idea right?
Yep
Yep.
Put water (or urine, or any H20 based liquid) into the gas tank, the water is converted on the fly to Oxygen and Hydrogen, the Oxygen is bled off into the atmosphere and the Hydrogen is burned as fuel. Not only would your exhaust be free Oxygen and water vapor, but you would CLEAN the air as you drove through it... because if the way that Hydrogen burns.
No Fuel Cell involved. Just thought you should know.
