Can hydrogen replace natural gas as a power source in engines?

Question

Can hydrogen replace natural gas as a power source in engines?

Answer 1

No, not economically --- H2 binds with all metals and makes them weak.   It is so small that it fits into the intersteilai spaces of atoms to embrittle the metal.

Look at the Liquid Nitrogen cars at the U of WA and the U of North TX.   Think of using the engine in the MDI car from "France"   "Air car"   the engine is worth looking at.

Nitrogen is clean and we will never run out --- You could even clean the air to make N2 into liquid nitrogen.

Answer 2

Hydrogen is by far better!   But making the hydrogen is a dirty process right now. I'm fixing that!   We need clean electric power to make the hydrogen cleanly.  Of cource clean electric power would be better than hydrogen.

Go to www.uspto.gov and enter patent number 5,430,333.

There you will see pollution free electric power able to be built to be more than 1000 times that of our largest Nuclear Reactor!

Plant Vogtle, our last Nuclear Reactor makes only a fraction of the power of my patented power plant!

The first generation “baby” power plants from this new technology makes 1000 megawatts.

Vogtle cost $10 billion, 30 years ago.

These new power plants cost $2.5 billion in today’s money.

Vogtle is about to be retired, as are all our other Nuclear plants.

All the fueled power plants only have about a 30 life span.

The power plant design you will see at patent office site live well over 100 years.

They burn NO fuel what so ever!

It costs more to demolish a Nuclear plant than to build one new!

The spent Nuclear fuel has a 25,000 year storage problem with no solution yet, and a tremendous cost that defies accurate estimation due to the very long time frame.

Nuclear power has been estimated to cost more $50.00 per kilowatt hour when the demolition and storage costs are applied.

Guess who gets to foot that bill, the tax payer!

Being fuel-less the design you see at the patent office has a cost of about 3 cents per kilowatt hour.

Coal fired power plants make 8 lbs of air pollution to run 100 watt light bulb for an hour.

There are NO cost estimations for the clean up of all that pollution.

We keep seeing in the news about coal miners dieing in cave-ins.

With the high cost of electric power being hidden for so long by our politicians using their abysmally poor judgment to allow this to happen in the first place.  Then compounding the problem with their constant lying about it to all of us, and the problem now coming to light despite their best efforts to lie and hide it.  We are now stuck with the costs of their abysmally poor judgment after their being “paid” by big power to lie to us about the scope of this problem for decades.  

Call all your elected official state, local, and federal.  Tell them you want the pollution free electric power you saw at the patent office web site!  Tell them to get off their assets and get moving on making pollution free and cheaper electric power happen ASAP!

Or swallow their lies so more until our nation is so polluted our children die younger than ever before.  Cancer is running rampant everywhere, it comes from all the pollution our elected officials are allowing to be spewed into “our” environment every day.  It time to put pollution into it’s proper place, “THE PAST”!

We now have the technology, we can build it, it’s 100% clean, and the electric power is cheaper than ANY fueled power plant.

I’m working on taking my utility company public now!  

I hope to building these power plants very soon!

Answer 3

A fuel cell with an electric engine is more effective, than burning hydrogen in an regular engine.

Answer 4

The main problem with most alternative fuels, is not getting them to work....it's making them affordable.  Economics, not resources has driven us to our petroleum addiction.

Hydrogen is cleaner burning; but, more expensive than natural gas...which is easily obtained from vast reservoirs around the country.

Currently, the cheapest way to produce hydrogen is with a chemical reaction involving petroleum.  Hydrogen can be obtained from water, using electrolysis; but, unless you use something like solar, hydro or wind power the cost will still be high...even using wind, solar or hydro power, you're going to make more money by selling the electricity, than hydrogen.

Answer 5

Yes. In fact it already has!

Answer 6

Someday.

You tube Hydrogen Production and you'll find some really cool stuff.

There's no simple answer to that question. Either infrastructure must be built or new technologies must be developed/ further refined.