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The cast of Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles - 2004 includes: Amber Marie Goetz as Host Arnold Schwarzenegger as himself
Yes, of course. It takes raw materials and engergy to produce a hydrogen fuel cell. It then takes raw materials and energy to produce the hydrogen fuel. However, the result of the hydrogen fuel cell combustion is water - this is a significant improvement over regular internal combustion engines which produce all kinds of exhaust fumes.Assuming hydrogren fuel cells become wide spread then society will change in many ways from new jobs and new fuel refineries/distribution to new language/slang for the HFCs etc...
Currently, there are no vehicles on the market which utilize the hydrogen fuel cell. Hyundai has plans to release a vehicle featuring hydrogen fuel cells as early as 2015. However, no vehicles currently exist that use this. There may be vehicles made by private individuals, but no pass produced vehicle has this technology right now.
Hydrogen is the simplest element in the universe. Combining hydrogen and oxygen in a fuel cell would produce energy without pollution.
Water hybrid vehicles still rely on gasoline as fuel. Water hybrid vehicles need an HHO, a hybrid hydrogen oxygen system. The HHO is a fuel cell that breaks water down into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen gas is added to the gasoline to enhance combustion. When the hydrogen gas is ignited in the cylinders it converts back to water. Not only do water hybrid cars increase gas mileage, they clean out carbon from the exhaust gas.
Install a hydrogen fuel cell. Google fuel cell llc. I noticed their first cell produce is for the N14
It is much easier to control the hydrogen and oxygen during direct combustion than during their reaction in a fuel cell.
In terms of energy expended, it is. Now here's the thing: Everyone talks about how sexy a hydrogen fuel cell is--the exhaust is just water, right? Well...you gotta get your hydrogen from somewhere because it doesn't exist on earth as free hydrogen. You can either pull it out of water (which requires a LOT of energy to do--more than you get from using the hydrogen) or you can pull it out of methane (which generates carbon dioxide). I think they need to forget using hydrogen and go with methane fuel cells instead. Methane is easy to get--either as natural gas or by making it from manure. It is more hydrogen dense than elemental hydrogen, as one methane molecule contains four hydrogen atoms whereas one hydrogen molecule contains only two. And decades of experience with Compressed Natural Gas and LPG vehicles have taught us exactly how to store it in a car--something we're still working on with hydrogen. In use in a fuel cell two methane molecules produce one carbon dioxide plus four water molecules. Bubble the "exhaust" through a solution of calcium hydroxide--which they sell as "slaked lime" in every garden store in America--and it traps the CO2 to produce calcium carbonate, a chemical that's very easy to sell because there are so many uses for it.
There are currently no Fuel Cell vehicles being sold to the public. Only prototypes have been built.
Hydrogen fuel cell cars are simply electric cars with a different kind of battery. The hydrogen that is stored in a tank runs to the (in this example case) Proton Exchange Membrane, where the hydrogen nucleus, a proton, passes through the membrane, while the electrons must stay behind. To get back to the hydrogen atoms, which are already mingling with oxygen atoms, the electrons pass around the membrane and are captured in an electrical circuit and forced to do work (like run a motor) before they can be reunited with the hydrogen and oxygen. once reunited, the resulting chemical is just hydrogen and oxygen; water.
There are multiple applications and pathways towards hydrogen based energy production. These include hydrogen fuel cell reactors to for?ænon-fossil fuel based vehicles. The ultimate steps to hydrogen energy production as fusion reactors.
There was a study performed on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the not so distant past. Here is a link to the study: www.aps.org/policy/reports/occasional/upload/fuelcell.pdf