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Winding Road examines hydrogen as a fuel
In the February 2007 issue of the online car magazine Winding Road, there is a fairly in-depth article on hydrogen. It looks at the history of hydrogen as a fuel, first in internal combustion applications, and later in fuel cells. The idea of using hydrogen as a range extender isn't new and was examined extensively in the '70s as a means of reducing gasoline combustion. Writer Karl Ludvigsen also looks at the first fuel cell powered motor vehicle, the 1966 GM Electrovan. You can subscribe to Winding Road free of charge, and download the full issue as a pdf or read individual articles online.
[Source: Karl Ludvigsen / Winding Road]
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Tim 12:58PM (1/02/2007)
HYDROGEN IS NOT GREEN! Water is. Hydrogen is a terribly inefficient energy carrier. It is most economically produced by splitting HYDROCARBONS like natural gas at 1/6 the cost of producing it via water electrolysis. The “Hydrogen Economy” is Big Oil’s giant SCAM http://www.oilcrash.com/articles/h_scam.htm In fact, “Hydrogen may be considered to be one of the MOST DESTRUCTIVE GASSES to escape into the atmosphere. It will destroy ozone in an IRREVERSABLE process, reduce oxygen levels and produce water vapor in the stratosphere.” http://www.ozone-depletion.com/. Hydrogen is one of the smallest and lightest elements, which means that it escapes easily. Consider hundreds of millions of tanks of this highly explosive gas leaking some of their destructive cargo directly into the atmosphere every time you fill them. You can’t clean that up as “easily” as an oil spill. We thought fossil fuels were bad! Spilled bio-diesel from algae http://www.autobloggreen.com/2006/12/28/solix-and-colorado-state-university-team-to-commercialize-algae/ (or electricity for that matter) is less toxic to the environment than sugar and won’t explode with a spark.
A terrorist’s dream is to have a giant potential BOMB such as a semi-trailer, container ship or tank farm of highly explosive gas such as LNG, H2 etc. parked next to a juicy target. A container ship of this stuff has about the same energy as 55 Hiroshima type nuclear bombs. Are they (including Al “Green” Gore) worried? YOU BET! http://www.timrileylaw.com/LNG.htm
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ksmith 2:53PM (1/02/2007)
I think we found a new 'Howard' to haunt the postings.
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