Is hydrogen the future fuel and the best choice for the future to replace gas. Is there a better alternative?

Question

Electric cars with new batteries may go a couple of hundred miles on one charge. With even better batteries perhaps could go further. What is the future energy source that has the most promise?

Answer 1

Hydrogen is good but there are some problems with it.  It is hard to store and is not easily compressed.  Methyl hydrate would be good, if we can figure out how to get it of the bottom of the ocean without bubbling away as the pressure drops on it.

Answer 2

Fossil fuel ..

Answer 3

THE FRENCH ARE BEING THREATENED BY THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY ARE STICKING TWO FINGERS UP AT THE AMERICAN ILLUMINATI BY PRODUCING ETHANOL IN VAST QUANTITIES.......they are doing it by using  HEMP  the only true way to make ethanol.America have forced many things on us and we are all pissed off with it all.yet they are our parent country,but who said parents are always right?.no one...........this is the original fuel for cars.......not enviromentally unfriendly oil,that causes this planet to suffer

Answer 4

I disagree. Like I have said before, hydrogen is a viable option in CITIES and flat land with a few hills. However, in truly mountainous regions the hydrogen vehicles don't have enough power to pull theirselves up mountain roads (paved roads) and instead use all their energy just getting up it. Basically mountainous areas will always stick with gas power, those hybrids and hydrogen vehicles here are useless.

Answer 5

No.  The technology is not developing rapidly enoughnto hold much promise for the near future.  Reduction and restraint in fuel consumption and increased reliance on human power holds the most promise.  Lifestyles need to be changed.  I think humans may have to go backwards technologically before they can go forward again.

Electric cars have too many problems connected with the recharging of batteries to hold much promise for the near future.  Batteries are ultimately dependant on carbon fuels.  Solar powered cars would prove to be too cumbersome and bulky.

Answer 6

I wouldnt drive a hydrogen car im afraid if i got in accident it will explode.i dont think we need to completely need to change the fuel that powers our cars<gasoline> but maybe add modifcations to the car and that extra power work with the gas to make more power to make your MPG go farther than the average 30 miles per gallon.

Answer 7

Either hydrogen or electric, or both.  There are big advances in battery technology, and solar panels may soon be able to charge a car.  MIT has just developed photovoltaic panels that may be able to convert enough hydrogen to power cars from a home unit.  As far as alternative fuels go, we are about where the petroleum industry was when the model T was being developed.  

Answer 8

electric cars are the most inefficient because the energy source is coal,  Electric cars are cheaper to run right now.  If we switch to electric cars, the demand for electricity will drive the cost per mile up.

HYDROGEN IS NOT FUEL SOURCE.  Hydrogen is an inefficient battery.  It comes from either oil or coal.  If you think about using solar or wind, skip it.  For every KW-hr the solar makes, you lose 1/2 the kW-hr to heat and entropy, its lost energy gone Nada bye bye.  Instead just charge a battery. OH and a container of H2 that would allow you to go 200 miles would weigh more than the car.

HHO doesn't exist it's real name is Pixie dust, oh, that doesn't exist either.

Answer 9

Electric cars are definitely better than hydrogen.  To get the hydrogen fuel you have to use electricity to seperate it from either fossil fuels or water atoms, so hydrogen cars are automatically less efficient than electric cars, which store that electrical energy directly in a battery and use it to power a highly efficient electric motor.

The only potential benefits of hydrogen cars are in range and refuel time, but battery technology will solve those problems before hydrogen cars can overcome the major roadblocks preventing them from becoming viable.

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Answer 10

on demand hydrogen is the way to go.  generate it, use it.  No tanks, No Worries.  a system only needs about 5 psi to operate an automobile.  power from the alternator.

research Stanley Myers.  He built a low voltage electrolysis method that generated up to 700 times the energy it consumed.  he patented it, and later died of poisoning.  now thats a normal way to go.

Who cares who did it.  The patents expired and the plans have been released.  people everywhere are trying to reproduce his work. some claim to have done it.  if it is true the world will forever change.

you tube has tons of stuff on HHO generation.

WE REDNECKS ARE STANDING UP TO BIG OIL!!!!

THEY CANT STOP IT.  IT IS HERE.  PEPS EVERYWHERE ARE SAVING MONEY ON HYDROGEN SUPPLEMENT TO GASOLINE POWERED CARS.  IT IS CHEAP TO DO, IT IS EASY TO DO.

Answer 11

Hydrogen has real potential, it is a fantistic fuel. The only problem is storage and transportation. If you can devise a way to store and transport large amounts of H, Bill Gates will be a pauper compared to you.

Answer 12

hydrogen is going to be but one fuel source in the future, we will have to develop as many sources as possible as all will be needed to supply future energy needs.

Answer 13

At the moment its a toss up.   The power grid cannot handle all the power necessary to charge vehicles, even at night, if a majority of vehicles went electric.   We also don't have pipelines that can handle hydrogen without retrofitting at this time.   If the country would embrace a more diversified energy infrastructure then either would be ok, but we are into thinking bigger is better.   If power were generated locally for electricity or hydrogen production and didn't have to be transported long distances, both problems could be closer to being solved.

Answer 14

Yes! It can be done. Don't listen to these other answers as they are all wrong and most don't even understand what you're asking. Its simple. With the right parts and knowledge for about $65 you can build your own water converter to HHO to be fed directly into your engine to increase your mileage by about 40%. Don't buy one build one. Just look around on the net to find the research and info to get you started. Check you tube.

Also I had posted this earlier under another question and I feel it applies here as well:

H fueled cars are actually safer than gas cars for many reasons. H doesn't explode, it burns but at a lower temp then gas. In fact, its kinda hard to even get burned by it even if you wanted to because of two things, the low burning temp and that it is the lightest thing known to man so it simply disperses into the air and disappears if leaked. As far as calling it explosive, that's so wrong that I can only describe it as propaganda. You can't even light H with a lighter or match. H gas is very hard to light. Do your research before you speak. Look into it, the hindonberg was on fire because the skin caught fire not the gas inside. The gas made the situation in no way worse and never exploded. Think about the footage, did you see an explosion or did you see a fire on the outside of the airship? That's right, a fire on the outside, not an explosion. Look it up! It actually burned under quite controllable conditions and only because it was coated with a very flammable candle wax like coating did it burn up. Look it up, don't just trust me. Do your own research, don't listen to some uneducated member of some website. Look it up for yourself and live in the light with the rest of us.

Finally to the guy who side every H car is equal to a H-bomb, you're wrong. Flat out propaganda. Look it up. An H bomb is a Hydrogen bomb that can only split atoms when triggered by a regular nuclear bomb. That's right, they are two different things! Look it up and stop trying to scare people with your ignorant propaganda! I learned that in seventh grade! Mustn't have made it that far huh?

As far as the guy saying that cars running on H have a small distance limitation, he's wrong, period. Cars running with H have been seen to go as far as 700 miles between fill ups. Do your research before you speak! And they have also seen a horsepower INCREASE with H not a decrease so don't listen to the guy saying it wouldn't work with towns with hills. He is wrong. Period.  

Answer 15

Hydrogen fuel for a car has to have several things worked out in the real world before it can work into society.

Yes they are explosive anytime there is H2 in the tank.

1. What about the warming of the liquid hydrogen. Refrigerated liquids require insulation and vacuum space to isolate the heat transfer to the liquid from the outside environment to the liquid that causes it the flash off to a gaseous state. Typically these require maintenance and even the design to survive being transported in a moving, bumping vehicle is going to be a challenge.

2. Lets say your Grandmother has her Hydrogen Fuel Vehicle in her garage and she only drives one day a week. Well that Hydrogen is warming at a good rate and the relief valve on the tank will vent to the garage space at some point. Yes the Hydrogen gas is lighter than air but what happens when it fills the garage and she opens the garage with her electrical garage door opener and the whole garage goes up in a blast. You cannot contain liquid hydrogen when it warms up and it is going to warm up. So maybe you

3. Lets say you go on vacation when your car is low on Hydrogen and when you come back all the Hydrogen has vented off safely but your tank is empty. Once the Hydrogen tank has warmed to room temperature the tank will require a whole lot of Hydrogen to cool the inside of the tank (Maybe 2 or 3 to 1). So how are you going to chill off the tank to get enough fuel in the tank to get you down the road? You can’t just take a gas can down and fill it up and then pour it in the cars tank and expect it to add much volume to the empty tank. Maybe you will call AAA and have them send out a 500 liter Liquid Hydrogen Dewar to cool off the tank and fill you tank. So you have wasted maybe 2 or 3 tank loads just to cool the tank. Now that is efficient!

4. Who in there right mind is going to allow an average driver or worse yet a below average driver to work with or fuel a liquid cryogen. It is not something that should be played with even if it is liquid nitrogen which is non-flammable.

I am not saying to give up the efforts to use Hydrogen as a fuel, I am just saying that there are these items I bring to light and many more before H2 will replace gasoline.

Answer 16

In some ways it's ideal.  It's the cleanest-burning fuel on Earth, producing only water vapor.  However there are some hurdles to producing it and delivering it in significant quantities.  Most of the commercially produced hydrogen is currently derived from fossil fuels, which doesn't solve the sustainability problem.  It can be extracted from water using electrolysis, but this requires as much energy as it produces.  If it could be done using solar, wind, or hydroelectric power, this would be a totally green process, but it would require a huge facility.  Also, unlike gasoline, it has to be stored under pressure at all times, making it a little more difficult to deliver to the fuel tank.  I hope they find ways to solve these problems, because it shows a lot of promise.

Answer 17

hydrogen is like natural gas - both full of hot air.

they should get on with plug-in hybrids NOW and stop wasting time!

Answer 18

The answer is yesz but hydrogen in the form of HHO.  you can actually conver H2O to HHO or browns gas a relatively explosive gas but emits very little CO2 and it is very inexpensive.