kerala is it going to launch a new car with water as fuel
2007-01-29 02:31:59 · 5 answers · asked by benil_thomas 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
That is the ultimate goal, but it will not be possible for many years. We are just at the beginning of the process to change from fossil fuels to a cleaner and better fuel based on hydrogen.
BMW, Mazda, Toyota, Ford and many other companies have successfully develop Internal Combustion Engines that use Cryogenic Liquid Hydrogen as fuel. Those engines are very similar to regular Gas Engines, as they burn hydrogen the same way that the gasoline is burned. Of course, the components are not all the same, but they share a good amount that is common to both.
The good side of burning hydrogen is the final emissions: pure water vapor. We have already been able to filter everything else though a clean combustion system, so only water in the form of vapor comes out.
The bad side is that for now, hydrogen engines are not as efficient as gasoline ones. They are about 1/3 of the way to be able to be as efficient. In general speaking, a full tank of gas on a regular vehicle can give you from 300 to over 400 miles. If you compare it to hydrogen, you might be able to get no more than 150 miles or so with a similar size hydrogen tank. It is a start.
But there is another bad news, to get pure hydrogen and make it liquid, you need to use many processes that are too complicated to have inside a car (for now). So the cost is high, and more likely more energy is needed to do the process.
So to answer your question, no matter what anybody claims, today is not possible to just add water to a tank, and have a vehicle running just like that. We will hopefully see it, but give it at least 10 to 20 years before that becomes a reality that you can go and buy at a car dealership.
And don’t forget, if one day we are able to just add water to the fuel tank, and the emissions are just water vapor… then why have any emissions? Just recycle the water vapor back into the tank, and make it fuel again.
Because you brake the H2O molecule into H and O, and generate energy out of the burning to combine them again, you loose mass (Einstein famous E=mc2) so the water recover will be less than the one used, but still, efficiency will be way greater than gasoline.
Can’t wait to see the future!
2007-01-29 02:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dan D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supposedly. It's part of Dubyas 'freedom fuel plan' to develop a hydrogen burning car.
Unfortunately it costs 10 times as much to fuel one, (it won't just 'run on water')
There is no infrastructure for refueling it.
Most hyrdrogen fuel cells won't fit inside a car.
Most importantly, does anyone remember the hydrogen filled 'Hindenburg'?? It worked well.
Not to mention that if someone actually managed to overcome all of the obstacles and got one to work, Dick Cheney would personally chop their f'ing head off, and feed it to the CEO of Mobil/Exxon.
2007-01-29 03:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by superfunkmasta 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this technologu has been avaiable since world war two. the govt. will shoot it down in a heart beat...
2007-01-29 02:41:25 · answer #3 · answered by Tacyella 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Haha nice! Mallu pride! :)
2007-01-29 02:40:22 · answer #4 · answered by lotusmoon01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats the word on the street. but dont tell know one else.
2007-01-29 02:36:31 · answer #5 · answered by Mary Kangaroohead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋