Ok, so my interest has been tweeked a bit. Did some googling. Came
across a report that has some data. I'll shorten up the verbage a bit:
they talk in terms of equivalence. A motor run on hydrogen would have to
be approximately twice the displacement to get the same hoprsepower.
Additionally, they used a gaseous stroage system that was a very high
pressure tank of 5.64 cu ft. This holds approximately 5.6 pounds of H2
at 3600 psig. The equivalent measure of gasoline would be 2.5 gallons.
And the tank itself would hold about 42 gallons of gasoline. Ok, so now
where do I get the 3600 psig H2? And who wants to be around when a 3600
psig carbon fiber tank ruptures when in an accident? And since a car
might make around 70 miles on the 2.5 gallons of gasoline the H2 car
would require a fill up at the distance. Where are the fueling stations?
Of course there may be much better storage that GH2 but metal hydrides
are heavy. And carry their own penalities.
Anybody wants it I can send this report...it is a pdf one and is 109
pages long. I gave up surfing for the BSAFC but they talked about it in
the report somwwhere...
mayf
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