Is it possible to make nitrogen fuel based cars ?

Question

Is it possible to make nitrogen fuel based cars ?

Answer 1

nitrogen cannot be used as a fuel since it doesnt burn. however if you inject nitrous oxide into a cylinder, along with extra fuel, the  the nitrogen and oxygen split, and the oxygen oxidizes the fuel to allow for more power to be gained from the engine.

Answer 2

Would that be air powered cars or funny cars?  Nitrogen is a noble gas that doesn't burn by itself. air cars are small, light, and short-range. Nitro-methane race cars  are interesting, but currently expensive. But yeah, both are possible.

Answer 3

No, nitrogen cannot be used as a fuel.

Answer 4

It is possible, but it would not be very efficient for two reasons.

First, Nitrogen is an organic element, but a weak one.  It reacts equally well with an oxidizer or a metal, and does so with very little energy release.  One of the reasons that diesel engines work so well is that they "burn" nitrogen as well as diesel fuel.  The problem is that NOx compounds are pollutants that seriously affect the ability to breath.  So an engine that would run on pure nitrogen would have an exhaust that would be 100% smog producing pollution.  Not the direction that we want to go in.

The other issue is that Nitrogen in the atmosphere is bonded in a very stable arrangement of N2.  To break the N2 bond takes almost as much energy as you will get by burning the Nitrogen.

There have been attempts at creating a compressed air car, that essentially is a Nitrogen car since 80% of what you are compressing is Nitrogen, but that is the only way to use Nitrogen as a primary fuel.

Answer 5

did you ever take high school chemistry?  The answer is no.

Answer 6

I believe that nitrogen absorbs energy when it burns. U would produce huge amounts of NO2 or photo chemical smoggy.