How Hydrogen Powered Cars Work
There are many different ways to make hydrogen fuel. Some of these involve burning trash to generate the heat required to break hydrogen out of natural gas or water. You won’t be able to drive on a banana peel, but that peel can be used by a hydrogen production facility to produce the fuel that your hydrogen powered car can use to operate.
There are multiple ways in which an automobile can be powered by hydrogen fuel. The same internal combustion engine that is used today in gasoline-powered cars can also power cars that use hydrogen fuel, with a moderate amount of modification to convert it to burn hydrogen.
Existing cars can be retrofitted as hydrogen powered cars with specially designed installations to completely do away with gasoline as the fuel source altough this could be expensive. There are also kits available that show you how to modify gasoline engines so that hydrogen gas is added to the current air gasoline mixture. This modification not only results in dramatically improved emissions, but in strikingly higher gas mileage as well.
Powering cars through the use of hydrogen fuel can result in a vehicle that does not leave a carbon footprint since there are virtually no emissions. Hydrogen powered cars are also approximately three times more efficient than traditional gasoline fueled cars. Electric cars use hydrogen fuel to generate their own electricity. The hydrogen can be stored in a tank, fed into a fuel cell where it is converted into electrical power, and then used to supply the power that the vehicle requires.
Hydrogen fuel is cheaper to produce in addition to being a truly renewable source of energy. It takes 300 billion gallons of water to refine the gasoline Americans burn each year, but it would only take 100 billion gallons to refine the same amount of hydrogen fuel. As a result, hydrogen costs about half as much per gallon as gasoline.
Every major automobile manufacturer is engineering its own hydrogen powered cars. Several of these hydrogen-powered models will be available in limited production in 2008. As availability of hydrogen fueling stations grows you can expect to see a steady increase in the number of hydrogen-powered vehicles in your neighborhood. Several of the automobile manufacturers are also working on home systems for hydrogen production that can not only serve as a gas pump in your driveway for your hydrogen power cars, but can also supply hydrogen fuel to generate the electricity to power your home.
While you might think that safety could be an issue, a hydrogen-powered car is at least as safe as a regular car. High-stress testing has been done to insure that the tanks used for storing the hydrogen fuel can survive even the most serious accidents.
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