Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

[anonin]

Students from the Danish college of technology (DTU) have develeped a new and innovative fuelsystem which eleminates the loss of hydrogen in a fuel cell.

By eleminating the loss of hydrogen in the fuel cells, the Danish students have made hydrogen power "cost efficient" and have layed a major piece in the hydrogen engine puzzle.

The new fuel system was developed while working on the new hydrogen car "DTU Dynamo". Last year the car set a new world record by driving 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of hydrogen. This equals to the 450 miles per gallon of gas.
This new invention has already been patented, and a new development is said to be underway.

http://clean-earth.blogspot.com/2006/04/students-drive-15-miles-on-035-ounces.html

[picklemonkey]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

hell yeah.

[FM]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

take years sadly before it's readily available...adn you won't see it in THIS country anytime soon

[geoffgulley]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

^^ ahh yes, the never ending deep pockets of major oil companies will never let this work until they want it to and can make money off of it.

[KinKyJ]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

For us metricalists that's 24,1 km on 9,9 gram of hydrogen.

Well, it is a another step into the right direction, but the road to cars running on hydrogen coming into mass production is still very long.

First of all there's this general misunderstanding one day we'll have cars running on water. Free energy for everyone in other words. Wrong. Hydrogen is indeed a component of water, but you still need to produce the gas and distribute it like normal fuel. Production + distribution = costs. Bye bye free energy.

Misunderstanding 2: water is an obvious source of hydrogen, but up until today the main source of hydrogen is the hydrocarbon molecules in fossil fuel. Water can split into hydrogen and oxygen when electricity passes through it but this proces isn't yet economical. Extra inconvenient detail: where do you get the electricity from? Right...

Alternative methods of hydrogen production are being researched, but none of them is at a final stage. More info here.

The good news however is that although the oil lobby might want to slow down the process of hydrogen becomming a new general power source by buying patents for example, car manifacturers like BMW and Honda are already in an advanced stage of designing a car that runs on hydrogen. More info on the BMW hydrogen powered car here.

I sure hope that the research on this clean energy speeds up a bit now that governments finally seem to be willing to fund hydrogen research projects. It's common knowledge that within 50 years or so we'll run out of fossil fuel. That doesn't mean however that we still have until then to come up with a solution. According to James Hansen, one of the top researchers on global warming, we'll have as little as 10 years left to do something about greenhouse gasses. After that we'll reach a tipping point after which global warming will become an unstopable process... Full article here.

The clock is ticking...

[runningman]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

nothing better then sitting on a hydrogen bomb..

sounds good though the price of gas is ridiculous..

[day_for_night]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

thsoe kids are gonna make crapload of money off this patent (if their school doesnt screw them over on royalties)

[MJDub]

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nothing better then sitting on a hydrogen bomb..

sounds good though the price of gas is ridiculous..

Gas isn't exactly a non-flammable substance either.

[anthony]

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exxon/mobile will by the rights to the patent and it will sit on the shelf until we are all long dead! mark my words!

[palmer]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

thsoe kids are gonna make crapload of money off this patent (if their school doesnt screw them over on royalties)

I will bet the bank the school owns it. I know I signed an agreement with my school stating that anything produced while enrolled belonged to the school.


This is dope though. A definite step in the right direction. It's a shame we probably won't see it operational for another 20years.

[KinKyJ]

Re: Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!!!

nothing better then sitting on a hydrogen bomb..

sounds good though the price of gas is ridiculous..

What MJDub said... That's the same thing people have been worrying about when LPG tanks got introduced. Pressure vessels for gas are usually designed to withstand a test pressure which is 1,5 times the maximum working pressure and to survive external impact to a certain level.

I guess that for hydrogen tanks in cars even more safety messures will be taken since it's more explosive than LPG.