Hydrogen powered engine??

Question

me and my friends wan't to design a hydrogen powered car ,if possible bild one for "indian roads"!!!!! can you point me in the right direction -tell me some sites or book we can reffer

Answer 1

I remember my grandfather saying NASA figured out hydrogen engines back in the 60's, but the oil based car manufacturers didn't want anything to do with it. So now it looks like we are re-inventing the wheel so to speak.

BMW was trying this but it looks like they gave up.

Once it is cost efficient, useless. Fresh water is just as precious as oil.

Answer 2

Absolutely wonderful best of luck and I hope you find the following helpful.

American Hydrogen Association - the News Letters have loads of info   www.clean-air.org

Solar Hydrogen Civilization by Roy McAlister - available through www.knowledgepublications.com   many many additional books on both sites and the DVDs are excellent.

Start with a one cylinder motor like I did.  www.american-renewable-energies.com

Work safe and have fun!

Answer 3

Believe it or not, this is a no-brainer!  There's just one place to go to get all the info you're asking for.  The first link is the main web site. The second is a hydrogen engine DVD - I bought this DVD and learned nearly all I needed to know to modify ANY gas engine to run on Hydrogen or combinations of Hydrogen and other fuels.

Answer 4

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www.quanthomme.org systeme Pantone

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Answer 5

www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/watercar/h2...

www.EasyWaterCar.com

www.wam-a-bam.com

Answer 6

A water-powered car is like a perpetual motion machine - which is to say, impossible.

The energy needed to break water down into hydrogen and oxygen is exactly the amount of energy you'd get from burning the hydrogen. That's in theory.   In the real world, there are losses to friction, heat loss to the environment, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics to contend with, and in the real world you'd find you got less energy back than you put in.

Hydrogen is not really a fuel, by the way, it's an energetic compound that you have to manufacture, which means you have to put the energy in somewhere back in the supply chain.  You can make it from petroleum (burning some of the petroleum in the process), or by splitting water with heat or electricity from coal, nuclear, gas, oil, solar, wind or whatever.  Hydrogen is rather like a charged battery: nice and clean, but you need to get the charge from somewhere.  And given that it's a pain in the neck to compress or liquefy into a decently concentrated form, hydrogen is a pretty poor choice relative to liquid fuels like petroleum, methanol,  or biofuels.

In about a decade, I think most cars will be plug-in hybrids, and probably all-electric some years after that.  Batteries capable of doing the job exist today (see the Tesla sports car), but they're still too expensive for regular commuters.

Answer 7

Water powered cars are supposed to be out in two years. They work by taking any water running electricity through it and burning the Hydrogen fuel it produces.  Watch Utube for a demo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKa4nOkH...

With this you can travel a hundred miles on 1 liter of water.

Also checkout Air Powered Cars on Utube.

If you don't believe in these methods, check the videos out on Utube.  Military is highly interested.

Answer 8

A friend of mine modified a car to run on LPG (natural gas or propane or whatever). It was very simple if the engine is not fuel injected. There were a few parts to modify the carburetor and some mounting hardware for a 5 gallon propane tank which he put in the trunk. That was all. If you fix your own car all the time like he does, it is very easy, but if you cannot even change your own spark plugs, it will be impossible. I would think any car that can burn natural gas could also burn hydrogen easily with minimum modifications, like different jets for the carburetor.

So now where will you get the hydrogen to fuel it? My friend got propane at RV supply places.