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Suzuki cleared to test SX4-FCV in Japan {Autoblog Green}
Jun 29th 2008 4:33PM it's fuel sell, not fuel cell.
Lawrence Livermore researchers develop new hydrogen tank {Autoblog Green}
Jun 10th 2008 12:33AM But where will I put my golf clubs?
New Toyota fuel cell hybrid has over 500 mile range {Autoblog Green}
Jun 7th 2008 5:46PM lol... excellent comments,,,
It's simply astounding that anything as dumb as a Hydrogen Car could even get beyond the drawing board when electric / hybrid drivetrains are ready to go,
http://www.pmlflightlink.com/archive/news_mini.html
and don't need a liberal sprinkle of magic fairy dust and many trillions of dollars to make it to market.
The last desperate attempts of a dying beast to keep selling us fuel,,, ANY fuel.
Screw you, Big Oil, and screw your Hydrogen too.
Ronn Motor Company reveals 40mpg hydrogen hybrid supercar plans {Autoblog Green}
Jun 5th 2008 6:50PM We're not talking about free energy,,, we get that bit already,,, or whether this car is a stock scam,,, i think we can all join the dots on that one...
It doesn't look like anyone's answered the question... so maybe it needs to be rephrased....
Does injecting a small amount of Hydrogen into the fuel line cause gasoline to burn cleaner?
Yes or No?
Ronn Motor Company reveals 40mpg hydrogen hybrid supercar plans {Autoblog Green}
Jun 5th 2008 2:10AM Yeah, the story is that adding HHO to the fuel line greatly improves combustion, and therefore efficiency... it's not like you're running on the HHO, just adding it to the fuel mix so it burns cleaner.
It's pretty complex - it involves a glass jam jar, a $2 element from an electric kettle, water, and some plastic tube.
There was a big beat up on the news here a couple of nights ago poo-pooing the whole thing and bullying some scruffy guy who was swearing by it,,, which actually makes me suspect that it probably does work.
Can't say I've tried it.... anyone?
Ronn Motor Company reveals 40mpg hydrogen hybrid supercar plans {Autoblog Green}
Jun 5th 2008 12:09AM they don't tell you that it also re-forms N20 from the exhaust, and pipes it into the cabin,,,, for a *truly* hilarious driving experience.
Ronn Motor Company reveals 40mpg hydrogen hybrid supercar plans {Autoblog Green}
Jun 4th 2008 10:41PM Aren't they doing exactly the same thing as those "brown's gas from water electrolysis-in-a-jam-jar" kits you can make for $5 for your gasoline car?
So it DOES work!
Total opens highway hydrogen fueling station in Belgium {Autoblog Green}
Jun 4th 2008 10:32PM sure it's a long way to drive to refuel my million dollar hydrogen car, but um, um,
crap i got nothin.
GOoOOOOOoooOOOO Hydrogen!!! YAY!!!!
BMW develops lighter, smaller liquid hydrogen tank {Autoblog Green}
Jun 3rd 2008 1:27AM Jake, I wish it were so, but I really can't see Hydrogen car r&d as doing *anything* other than taking development money away from PHEVs and EVs. The space program has had Hydrogen Fuel Cells for quite some time now, about 50 years isn't it,,,, and which technology do they actually use? Solar.
The head of Royal Dutch Shell has been quoted recently in a pro-oil puff-piece in The Times Online as saying that RDS is Very Optimistic about Hydrogen fueling our *future* "environmentally friendly" vehicles..... and that they fully expect Oil to be Earth's main motive energy source for many decades to come..... but of course.
Sure, I'm being antagonistic, cynical, and somewhat pessimistic, and there *are* bona-fide uses for Hydrogen fuel cell technology, somewhere, but cars? Jeez man, it's less than 40% overall efficiency and there is *no* infrastructure.
One last question - how come BMW is throwing all this money (a million dollars plus per vehicle) + time + energy at H2 Fuel Cell Cars, when a small company like PML Flightlink could retrofit a BMW Mini to Electric-hybrid with a Lithium Ion battery / Supercapacitor / tiny ICE generator, and get 640bhp, top speed of 240km/h, 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, 1500 km autonomy, zero emissions in EV mode for 4 hours, and 80 mpg in hybrid mode,,,,,,,, all with current technology.......(and BMW doesn't want anything to do with it.) ?
http://www.pmlflightlink.com/index.html
BMW develops lighter, smaller liquid hydrogen tank {Autoblog Green}
Jun 2nd 2008 8:20PM Imagine if "they" - meaning Big Oil's car company fronts - were spending all this money on battery electrics, rather than the super-lossy-one-day-in-the-distant-future Hydrogen furfy.
They just want to keep selling us fuel, and battery electrics have the awkward possibility of free fuel (if you have a solar panel), and at the very least sidestep Big Oil altogether.
Personally, I'm really tired of hearing about Hydrogen on this forum. It's almost (!) as inefficient as burning gasoline, and it really does look more and more like Big Oil distraction from technology that we already have, technology that is already three times more efficient than this H2 fantasy.
Screw Big Oil. Screw Hydrogen. Where's my electric car?
