[LAD] OT: alternative fuel for cars [was: Re: Car engine sound emulation for future electic cars. ideas ?]

[Patrick Shirkey]

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:01:55PM +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
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>> In most places water is fairly easy to come by as you only have to wait 
>> for the rain or go to a lake/ocean whereas electricity is slightly more 
>> complex to attain and usually requires payment for the privilege.
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> Are we living on the same planet ? In most places water supply will
> become as big a problem as petrol supply. 
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Not once we melt the arctic and the antarctic. Then we will have lot's 
of extra water all round ;-)

Anyway I don't see this issue as I live in a tropical part of the world 
and have a big river 10 minutes walk away. Also the Ocean is only 2 
hours drive away.

>> If you can burn water directly without having to extract the hydrogen 
>> first
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> But you can't since it is already 'burned'. It's the 'ashes'
> of burning hydrogen.
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ahem, A water molecule is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. 
Therefore separating the parts gives us two whole hydrogen atoms to 
excite and extract energy from. I have read that Hydrogen is 
approximately 10 times more unstable than gasoline and therefore you 
need less of it to create the same amount of explosive force.

>> once you start the car you will be providing enough energy 
>> to keep the engine running
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So how is this different from a car motor that runs on gasoline?


> Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhh ! The perpetuum mobile again....
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> What sort of waste does this produce ? Water ? Any
> different from the one you have to put in ?
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Not as far as I know but it doesn't recycle every millilitre so there is 
eventual need to top up the reserves.



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Patrick Shirkey
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