[TheForge] Hydrogen storage (was: Hellooooooo!)

[Rich Maynard]

Hydrogen isn't 'efficient'. You have to make it rather than dig it up, so
it's not an energy source like gas or oil, it's an energy vector like a
battery.

Rich M.

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> [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ralph Sproul
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> 	Good question.  I know Hydrogen has a burn rate twice 
> that of acetylene, and three times of propane 
> (approximate).......but no idea how it compares to gas or fuel.
> 
> Ralph
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> Anyone know offhand how efficient hydrogen is, energy-wise, 
> on a per volume or per-weight hasis when compared to gasoline 
> and diesel?
> 
> Chris Kilpatrick wrote:
> > Rich,
> >      In my previous post on getting hydrogen from water, I 
> was trying 
> > to
> make the point that water is plentiful in most places and 
> could probably be the fuel source itself.  (The car would be 
> engineered to separate the hydrogen and oxygen use both, or 
> just the hydrogen).  The technology is very lo tech and water 
> is very stable.  The only hazardous possibilities, if done 
> correctly, are possible electric shock if your fuel tank is 
> ruptured in a crash, but even that could be engineered around.
> >
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