the tecknolage has been there sence the 70's
2006-06-27 17:02:47 · 7 answers · asked by chip 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
because there hasn't yet been developed a way to effictively and safely store (or produce) enough hydrogen to make it a viable power solution.
2006-06-27 17:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Lord_of_Armenia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I've seen a plan of car than ran on Hydrogen however given that the volume of fuel required to go a practical distance before refuelling requires that the vehicle is mostly made up of an enormous tank of highly flammable Hydrogen. Funnily enough people weren't real keen to drive the things due to the inherent danger of oh Exploding in a massive fireball of pain and death!
Personally I think it's probably a good thing that the inventors decided that more work is needed on safely storing the hydrogen, before this technology is applied commercially.
2006-06-27 18:43:32 · answer #2 · answered by Ren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because "magnets" are not a power source. Fine for hooking things to your refrigerator but not for making cars go down the road.
Hydrogen as fuel is very difficult to handle and there are currently no feasible systems for carrying enough hydrogen in a car to make it a useful vehicle. Not to mention the problems with making hydrogen (how and out of what, there's plenty of ways but none that compete with gasoline) and with setting up hydrogen distribution throughout the country.
We use gasoline because it is the cheapest most efficient thing we have now. Horse drawn carriages have been around for thousands of years (way before the 70's) but people stopped using that technology automatically when something better came around. We will automatically switch to something better if it comes around, until then, enjoy your ride.
2006-06-27 17:29:10 · answer #3 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SImple. Hydrogen and magnets (and a large numer of ither ideas for locomotion) either do not work, are inherently dangerous, or are not economically feasible.
2006-06-27 17:06:47 · answer #4 · answered by Michael R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would put the oil companies out business ,and we would have millions of people out jobs also
2006-06-27 17:20:55 · answer #5 · answered by emilo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
obviously the technology is not economically feasible
2006-06-27 17:06:07 · answer #6 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are available, why haven't you gone and bought one yet!?
2006-06-27 19:47:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋