Is the hydrogen car going to fix globel warming?

Question

hydrogen gas is formed easily from burning water through electrolysis to form hydrogen gas then, in the combustion engine it explodes and turns back in to water how dose this effect the ozone dose it rebuild it self?

Answer 1

None of the gas that is formed affects the Ozone layer ,they are too heavy.

Answer 2

Maybe the emissions won't be as bad as petrol based vehicles and you could collect waste emissions and take a 'filter?' out every night and put in a new one, and before you criticise me, I'm not an engineer

Answer 3

yes, it reduces carbon emissions and help the planet

Answer 4

Yes, up to a certain degree. The fuel reduces the emission of CO2, NOx and other green house gases. However there is green house gas emission during the production of hygroden fuel.

Answer 5

Yeah until everyone adopts it then they decide to complain about it.  It's the same thing that is happening with the CF light bulbs in america a hand full of states are requiring them and now we learn these bulbs have mercury in them.

Answer 6

How do you produce the Hydogen and what side effects are produced?

  Nuclear power for the electricty=good.

  Chemical reaction with hazardous waste by products=bad

  CFL's MAY affect the ozone layer but we really don't know.  The 2H2+O2=2H20 reaction should not produce O3 so there is no net effect.

Answer 7

The "explosion" theories are funny to me. Petroleum is by far so much more dangerous at so many of the stages of use that it's ridiculous.

The use of hydrogen as a fuel can be made to result in liquid h20 as exhaust - not necessarily vapor. And the process to convert water into hydrogen may result in the side benefit of desalinating sea water.

Ultimately, though, hydrogen is an "energy carrier" rather than a fuel (a kind of battery - not to carve too fine a point on it.)

There is one idea that we retrofit supertankers as off-shore, solar, high temperature electrolysis based hydrogen factories. The floating factories could move to the best solar conditions and safety concerns would be minimized. They could dock on various pipe-based delivery systems to off-load the hydrogen.

Answer 8

NO it will make it worse

# 1 greenhouse gas CO2

# 2 H2O vapor

So burning something for energy will not slove the global warming problem.  

The new energy source will have to use something that is completly natural and it must also be able to produce energy without chemical change.

The wind, the tides, and solar have to get more into the main stream type energy sources.

Answer 9

im srry if i sound ignorant(im not meaning to)but there is no such thing as global warming....just look at the tempurature in the north! it has been below zero at least 10 or20 times this long winter season. but the earth has to run out of gas sometime...so i think that hydrogen cars are a very good think........good question though

Answer 10

The hydrogen combustion that you're talking about is ultimately not the best use of the element in fueling automobiles. Fuel cells are far more efficient, and are emissions-free. The only hurdle to their mass production is, of course, cost. However, many laboratories across the world are looking for other materials than the platinum currently used as the membrane in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. A break through in this area is approaching, although how far away it is is still a question.

Another potential problem for the propogation of hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicles is a hydrogen infrastructure. Although the implamentation of such a thing would indeed be quite expensive (in the billions of dollars), similar amounts of money are spent annually in the defense budget and many other sectors of the U.S. Hydrogen embrittlement of steel is perhaps a larger issue in the way of this.

When it comes to hydrogen automobiles, they are, in truth, only as clean as the source of their hydrogen. Although they would be cleaner than current fossil fuel vehicles because of their efficiency and centralised Co2 production, if the hydrogen is produced from steam reformation via coal or electrolysis via any fossil fuel power plant than it is only partially green. Currently, the only method of energy production on a large scale, nuclear power, is seen by many as too problematic in terms of waste storage and safety. However, safety, in terms of potential meltdown and plant intrusion, is essentially a non-issue because of the containment buildings at all modern plants, as well as the high safety standards at any nuclear plant. Waste storage, as well, has a solution found under Yucca Mountain, despite what many anti-nuclear foundations would say about that issue....

Rambling aside, whether the hydrogen vehicle can be seen as a global warming-savior or not is dependant upon the method of hydrogen production more than anything else.

Answer 11

No. CO2 is not why the earth is warming.

You gotta love Aqua Lung. He cuts and pastes the same answer to every question.