I remeber seeing an ad on tv about hydgen power cars. I clamed to run off of hydgen and only prodece water. WHAT AN IDEA!!! I even heard of a person driving one. I heard Bush talk about using corn or wheat for fuel but nothing about this hydgen which I think we have tons of. Did the oil companys get a hold of this one??? What the he!! is going on?
2006-12-21 03:01:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
Type after me...
H - Y - D - R - O - G - E - N.
OK, I've got that out of my system.
The reason is that hydrogen is expensive to generate, hard to transport, hard to store safely, and hard to carry enough to get the same distance that a gas-powered car can get now. If you stored it as a compressed gas, it would have to be kept under thousands of pounds of pressure in order to get enough to drive 2 hundred miles without refilling. And don't dare get in a crash with that much hydrogen on board. You'd have your own personal Hindenburg disaster.
There is no good way to transport the stuff now except for tanker trucks. They can't carry enough to power a fleet of cars for a long time, so we'd need thousands of these rolling bombs hauling hydrogen down the highways if we tried to replace even a few cars this way. There are no pipelines that can deliver the stuff. It has a very small molecule, and can seep out through tiny holes that most gases can't slip through.
There are very few mechanics trained to work on hydrogen fueled vehicles, so if anything broke down, you'd be stuck.
Finally, generating hydrogen from water costs more than it does to make gasoline, so it would be more expensive to own and operate a vehicle that runs on the stuff.
It's a good idea on paper, but the practical sides of the matter keep it from being adopted any time soon.
2006-12-21 03:14:00 · answer #1 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are using Hydrogen cars here in Europe on a limited basis as test cars.
What is the problem... the cost to produce and store the fuel. The car is efficient and the exhaust is clean. But the cost to break down and store the hydrogen is too high. The Munich airport is using Hydrogen fueled vehicles as a test.
This will sit on a shelf until a cheaper way of producing the fuel can be found.
2006-12-21 11:09:08 · answer #2 · answered by shovelkicker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
gm is spending a lot of money trying to develop this technology. their biggest challenge might be getting someone to produce enough to replace significant amounts of gasoline and develop a way to deliver it to customers. think about it. do you want to own a hydrogen car now--even if you can buy it cheap? where will you get the nearly pure hydrogen to put into the tank and how much does it cost. no, there is no conspiracy in the oil business to prevent it.
2006-12-21 11:12:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ovrtaxed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is also something called a Sterling Engine that runs itself but you will never see that either as no one will make any money off of them, especially the oil companies and the governments.....
2006-12-21 11:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by beetlejuice49423 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are too slow. just like the other hybrids
. good in town driving.
If you spend your whole life in town I suppose people would get one.
but they want to get up to the mountains or to the ocean/lake in a couple of hours not take 1/2 a day.
2006-12-21 11:10:45 · answer #5 · answered by Tapestry6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because hydrogen is very expensive and not very widely available.
I believe Iceland has hydrogen-powered buses, though, as there is an abundance of renewable energy there...
2006-12-21 11:08:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because oil and gas are such a huge industry (tens of trillions of dollars U.S. a year). It would just cost too many people too much money and alot of people their jobs.
2006-12-21 11:09:43 · answer #7 · answered by gregtkt120012002 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What is hydgen?
If you meant hydrogen please look up the Hindenburg and do some research.
2006-12-21 11:05:18 · answer #8 · answered by DannyK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋