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The Future Is Here . . . In 20 Years
The experts who test-drive the one hundred BMW or Honda hydrogen cars on highways throughout the world today are quick to say it will be another twenty years for the completely non-polluting hydrogen vehicle to arrive.
But if you’re lucky enough to drive one of those futuristic cars that will currently run on liquid hydrogen, as is the case with BMW models, you also will be thinking of the day you can just pour in some H2O and the system will turn water into hydrogen, leaving only water as a byproduct – with zero pollution.
The day of strictly green cars is coming, believe me. But that day is being slowed by oil and gas moguls who don’t want to see their fossil fuel industry implode. What influence these large oil producers like Shell, Mobile, American Oil, British Petroleum and others exert on progress is the untold story. Somewhere in dark, private offices, negotiations are surely going on to delay the coming of this marvelous advance as far into the future as possible.
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It took seventy-five years to get telephones in every home across the U.S. But it only took five years for the Internet to flood the world. Judging by that, once it hits, watch out! People won’t want anything else. If you still own a gas-guzzler, better park it in the back of your garage and roll it out once or twice a year to shine it up or to drive in an historical parade. You won’t want to waste the money on gas-pump fuel, if, indeed, any gas stations are still around.
Before the hydrogen car can become a reality, big business must stop dragging their feet. Wall Street magnates wouldn’t call them bribes, because that’s what they are. Money or investment is being dropped into auto manufacturers like BMW, GM, Ford, Toyota, and Honda to dissuade them from doing too much too soon.
But governments are picking up the slack to speed things along. President Obama recently “gave” Al Gore $500 million to help push along his proposed $80,000 car that will be built in Finland and in Detroit.
President Bush appropriated some $2 billion in hydrogen highway research. Before the big recession hit, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was pushing to get 200 hydrogen filling stations built by 2010 stretching from Vancouver, British Columbia, all the way down to Baja, California. Since Californians buy one-fifth of the nation's cars, the new hydrogen car technology could simply replace the current gasoline engine.
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When you drive one of these prototypes you don’t really feel any different than driving an all gas-driven vehicle, according to those who have driven them including Jay Leno.
The motor, drive train, air conditioning, wheel system, and other things about the car are the same. But in twenty years, when we’re converting water into hydrogen fuel, we will notice the difference:
· There won’t be any appreciable pollution, just water sprayed out the back end of the car.
· Car efficiency will probably be ten times as great as it is today, costing you, the public, much less or close to nothing to operate this car. Of course, this is the utopia we all dream about, but that kind of result may not be here even in twenty years. After it does arrive, it will take a lot more time to perfect the systems.
But Hydrogen cars are not only in the future, they are here. When hydrogen cars become the status quo, the U. S. can lessen its dependence upon foreign oil, achieve lower prices at the fuel pumps and cut down on the greenhouse gases that allegedly produce global warming. The future of hydrogen cars is not a pipe dream, as there are already many hydrogen cars on the road. California and Japan have many hydrogen cars being used as fleet vehicles now.
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In 2005, Honda leased the first commercial hydrogen car to a family in Redondo Beach, California, pictured above.
For the past 28 years, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has been conducting research on hydrogen fuel cells for use in transportation, industry and residential use. According to the LANL, "Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Research at Los Alamos has made significant technological advances in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells, Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC), and related technologies such as the electrolyzer (a fuel cell in reverse, liberating hydrogen from electricity and pure water)."
Unlike many of the hybrid and "green" cars currently on the market, hydrogen cars offer the promise of zero emission technology, where the only byproduct from the cars is water vapor. Current fossil-fuel burning vehicles emit all sorts of pollutants such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide, ozone and microscopic particulate matter. Hybrids and other green cars address these issues to a large extent but only hydrogen cars hold the promise of zero emission of pollutants. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that fossil-fuel automobiles emit one-point-five billion tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year and going to hydrogen-based transportation would all but eliminate this.
Not only that, hydrogen cars will lessen the United States' dependence upon foreign oil. The so-called "hydrogen highway" will mean less dependence upon OPEC, the big U. S. oil companies, oil refinery malfunctions and breakdowns and less resistance from oil-selling nations like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia or from hostile nations who would rather sell elsewhere. Consumers will finally get a break from the never-ending rising prices at the gasoline pumps.
The BMW prototype car has gas and/or hydrogen running capability. Dual-fuel automotive systems are being tested that can run on either gasoline or hydrogen as the hydrogen infrastructure is being developed. The conversion from gasoline-powered internal combustion engines to hydrogen powered combustion engines is agreed upon by most scientists and engineers to be a particularly easy transition and would buy time for hydrogen fuel cell cars to be fully adapted.
But, hydrogen cars are not isolated to those that burn the fuel in internal combustion engines. There are more hydrogen fuel cell cars being built currently than any other innovation. Let's also not forget about hydrogen-on-demand vehicles that are either using a hydrogen compound or electrolyzing water to create hydrogen, avoiding the compressed or liquid hydrogen refueling scenario altogether. And, what about adapting hydrogen peroxide for fuel in car since it is currently being used in racecars and jet packs as a propellant?
With Germany, Japan, Norway and the U. S. in the hunt, the hydrogen economy is just around the bend. You have to wonder about Russia, however. They are basing their entire futures on a heavy pollution oil production culture, oil pipelines, and gas guzzling cars. However, America is on the right side of history.
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Thanks for reading and for your comments, eovery. They talk like this is not the Hindenberg, but who knows what they are building? Don White
I think it was $500 million that Obama gave Al Gore for his new auto company in which he will build green cars in Finland and Detroit. If someone out there has other information, please let me know. I don't know why our president would play so high and loose with our tax dollars. In the church, the Bishops are told to use sacred funds (meaning fast offerings) very conservatively or at least judicially. In other words, carefully. Our country should pass a law making its president do the same with our sacred money, "tax dollars." Don White
Hydrogen is a highly exothermic fuel and a very clean one, with only water as a byproduct. Hydrogen cars are perfectly viable now. But don't be waiting around for cars that run on water. It's not technology that prevents that; it's thermodynamics. To dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen takes as much energy as is released by recombining them in the engine. It's a non-starter.
Thank you, Paraglider, for that insight. I'd like to think you are wrong, but I know of your expertise. Could it be that this hydrogen stuff will go the way of "cold fusion?" Remember that? I was living in Utah at the time and two profs at the University of Utah were developing that. Unfortunately, it was successful at a very low level but not at the level where you could make meaningful energy to be used in industry. Thanks again, Don White
There's so much politics associated with energy. I think we'd have had controlled fusion reactors now if Chernobyl had not happened. A very badly maintained plant created a major local disaster, but the ramifications spread much further.
Hydrogen fuel will come, I think. (But not water ;)
Thanks, Paraglider. Very wise comments from an extremely intelligent man. Don White
Thanks, Paraglider. Very wise comments from an extremely intelligent man. Don White
Paraglider: I'm wondering how hydrogen-driven cars will ever be feasible. Hydrogen from water is expensive, so what are the car makers to do? Just act the walk or just follow along with the big boys like BMW who seem to be miles ahead of GM and the Japanese auto companies?
By analogy - many intercity express trains in UK are diesel-electric. i.e. they have on-board diesel fueled generators that produce the (electric) energy to drive the trains. Oddly enough, that's more efficient than direct diesel engine drive.
Something similar might happen with hydrogen fuel. Centralised plants, producing the fuel, and localising (and hopefully minimising) the pollution. While in the cities, the cars all run clean. But it's a long way off.
eovery says:
2 months ago
Obama gave Al Gore how money! I think this should be investigated.
Somewhere the water has to be turned into hydrogen and oxygen. This takes more money the inverse. The only way this would even remotely be green, is if the hydrogen was produced by solar, wind or geo energy. If by coal, or other means, the process would not be green.
Also, I do not like the idea of strapping a tank pressurized at 1000 psi to my hind-end. I think that is kind of dangerous.
This will be interesting.
Keep on hubbing!