Google AUTOWEEK mag, they had a good article on H2 fueled cars in one of
recent issues--one of the German mfgs (BMW?) will be offering a hydrogen
fueled car in the U.S. soon.
As I noted on the List previously, most commercial hydrogen is made by
reforming natural gas so it's no solution to the carbon problem and Hydrogen
made by electrolyzing water is very expensive.
Lance
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Wennerberg" <jon@infodestruction.com>
To: "Scott Cowle" <SCowle@mentorcollege.edu>
Cc: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: hydrogen as a fuel
> On Jan 17, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Scott Cowle wrote:
> Will Hydrogen be the racing fuel of tommorrow? Scott
>
>
> Scott, you're invited to visit Marquette on Wednesday, 7 February,
> when the Marquette Range Engineers Club will see and hear a
> presentation by Andy Stromquist, one of our members. The title is
> "The Hydrogen Economy - A Myth?"
>
> I expect Andy will do some debunking of the rush to hydrogen. From
> my knowledge -- it's a fine fuel, but costs a bunch of energy to
> produce and make available to operate an internal combustion engine.
> Does it cost more than it's worth? Come to the talk and see what
> Andy reports to us.
>
> It's a fine, clean fuel, but in my opinion -- there's no damn way in
> hell it'll be in any real amount of cars in the immediate (10-25
> year) future. I offer that opinion because I own and drive an
> alternate-fuel vehicle -- but these days I only run it on gasoline --
> the alternate fuel isn't commercially availalbe.
>
> I bought a GMC Jimmy (SBC motor) from the fleet of the local natural
> gas company, and they had converted it to CNG as well as gasoline.
> It ran just dandy on CNG -- with a few limitations, but dandy. But
> within a few years the gas company got rid of the CNG vehicles and
> discontinued offering fuel (at a compressor station) as not
> commercially viable. I could have bought a small on-site compressor
> -- so I could tap from the gas supply here at the office, but the
> damn thing cost so much that it wasn't worth it.
>
> Continued, next page.
>
> Jon Wennerberg
> Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
> Marquette, Michigan
> (that's 'way up north)
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