{"id":5622,"date":"2008-09-28T04:29:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/hydrogen-gas-fuel-alternative-to-gasoline\/"},"modified":"2008-09-28T04:29:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T09:29:44","slug":"hydrogen-gas-fuel-alternative-to-gasoline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=5622","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Gas Fuel – Alternative To Gasoline"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Adrian Fletcher<\/div>\n

Hydrogen is something that is present in great amounts over the entire earth. It is found in many locations such as in water and plant matter, compost materials and even in algae. Because it is present in such large amounts, hydrogen is being considered as an option to replace fossil fuels. Pure hydrogen gas fuel is created by splitting hydrogen from the other elements that join it to form substances like water. Breaking the bond requires some form of chemical processing or heating. After blending hydrogen gas fuel with oxygen, only heat and water are produced when ignited, making it about as eco-friendly as you could hope for!<\/p>\n

There are benefits and drawbacks to each method of extracting hydrogen. Some methods create harmful emissions during refining, and some means of production are less costly than others. The steam methane reforming method is the one most widely used in the United States at present, and it works by heating natural gas to specific temperatures so that hydrogen can be separated from the rest of the natural gas.<\/p>\n

It will take quite a lot of capital to establish the infrastructure required to make hydrogen gas fuel on a scale to satisfy a large part of the world’s energy needs. Hydrogen can be separated from water through electrolysis, a process which passes an electric current through the water. Using electricity produced from windmills, solar panels, or other sources will allow hydrogen generation on a much larger and environmentally-friendly scale. Choosing a location for a hydrogen production facility raises geographic concerns. Because there are no greenhouse gas emissions in producing hydrogen gas fuel, the electrolysis method is worth the investment.<\/p>\n

Hydrogen is very flexible and suitable as fuel since it can be stored and easily transported in the form of gas or liquid. Hydrogen fuel can be transported in vapor form from its refinery site to up to a distance of 200 miles. For longer distances up to 1000 miles, hydrogen is transported in super-insulated tanks in liquid form.<\/p>\n

Hydrogen will produce more energy per unit weight than any other fuel known. Hydrogen gas fuel gives more than triple the energy of the equivalent amount of gasoline, and does not produce any of gasoline’s undesirable emissions like sulfur and carbon dioxide. Hydrogen gas fuel yields energy at a rate of six times more than an equal amount of coal. <\/p>\n

Hydrogen gas has much better and more efficient combustion through a larger range of air fuel mixtures than gasoline. Hydrogen gas fuel has an octane rating of 130 and this is higher than the highest octane gasoline available at present at the gas station.<\/p>\n

Hydrogen gas fuel could help us power nearly anything – from large cities to cellular phones, moped to rocket ships while still being eco-friendly. Transport vehicles can be designed to run on hydrogen gas fuel or retrofitted to be able to use it. As gasoline prices continue to rise, we will soon see if hydrogen gas fuel will be a workable replacement for gasoline. Provided the right structures can be set in place and continued research continues apace, it may be the solution to creating an abundant and environmentally fuel.<\/p>\n

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Hydrogen is something that is present in great amounts over the entire earth. It is found in many locations such as in water and plant matter, compost materials and even in algae. Because it is present in such large amounts, hydrogen is being considered as an option to replace fossil fuels. Pure hydrogen gas fuel is created by splitting hydrogen from the other elements that join it to form substances like water. Breaking the bond requires some form of chemical processing or heating. After blending hydrogen gas fuel with oxygen, only heat and water are produced when ignited, making it about as eco-friendly as you could hope for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-5622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-technology","tag-computers-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}