Where is the Hydrogen engine? Why do we have to rely on stupidly expensive Oil.?

Question

Where is the Hydrogen engine? Why do we have to rely on stupidly expensive Oil.?

Answer 1

They do have hydrogen engines.  I work for an engine distributor and one of our lines is hydrogen.  Check out http://www.hydrogenenginecenter.com/.  Hydrogen engines require more research and cost than regular gas engines.  Also, the hydrogen fuel they require is not easily available and requires some sort of way to transport the hydrogen whether in water, anmonia, or other chemicals.  Anmonia actually has a higher hydrogen count than water but is somewhat toxic and weighs much more than just water. So obsticles remain.

Answer 2

Hydrogen gas for cars is not going to happen as they understand how explosive it is.

Answer 3

" we don't , but do you think the greedy of the world would allow us to use alternatives "

Answer 4

Independent articles

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/busine...

Answer 5

Seen the price of platinum lately?  Takes more energy to produce hydrogen than the hydrogen can create.  No conspiracy, just inefficient.

Answer 6

The Discovery Channel or whatever TV show you've been watching lied to you.  You can run an internal combustion engine on any gasous fuel, and hydrogen is one of those.  But the people who produce those TV shows have a science education that's worse than most, and they don't understand that there aren't any hydrogen wells.  Nor do they understand that hydrogen can't be moved through conventional gas pipelines because it leaks out through valves and embrittles the steel pipe.  The hydride storage schemes they crow about are expensive and inefficient, which is why such hydrogen as we do use is carried in highly-compressed form.  But even one of those huge tanks doesn't contain much energy.

Hydrogen electrolysis on a large scale is still quite theoretical at this stage: we don't know much about electrode life and the generation of other byproducts in the dissociation process.  We do know that it's inefficient: you use up a lot of energy just heating up the water.  

So I wouldn't get too excited about hydrogen.

Answer 7

Any engine can burn Hydrogen.Its that they want to force people into buying new cars with fuel cells.More electronics to go wrong.All you would need is pressure tank,fittings,just like propane.The main problem is right now it takes to much power to produce hyd.

So I feel diesel made from algae is the best approach.

Answer 8

Well at the moment they are working on making a good hydrogen engine it isnt really tested out properly. oh many countries have started running on hydrogen as an oil, norway and deffentley sweden have started a project were they use bioenergi as oil..hydrogen is going to be the next great thing in the world but they just need to find away to save hydrogen..as gass or as a licuid. hope i helped..only a teen but i know my stuff:)

Answer 9

You think oil is expensive wait til you see how much hydrogen costs.  You will be begging to switch back.

Nobody is selling mass produced hydrogen engines for vehicles because there is nowhere to refill the tanks.  Nobody is making a distribution system because there are no cars to use it.  Both projects would cost BILLIONS and take DECADES to complete.

Answer 10

Hydrogen will not be viable for about one hundred years. Hydrogen now comes primarily from natural gas, hardly a renewable source.

Answer 11

Or a solar powered one: could have a panel on the roof, bonnet of car and way to go.

Answer 12

You can run a combustion engine on Hydrogren right now.  Simply use electrolysis to seperate the Hyrdrogen and Oxygen molecules from water.  You can do a search for information on this at http:www.Go ElectricNow.com