{"id":6125,"date":"2008-10-10T16:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T21:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/10\/how-hydrogen-powered-cars-work\/"},"modified":"2008-10-10T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T21:27:27","slug":"how-hydrogen-powered-cars-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=6125","title":{"rendered":"How Hydrogen Powered Cars Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Adrian Fletcher<\/div>\n

Hydrogen gas can be produced using a wide variety of methods, several of which could include incineration of trash to produce the heat necessary to release hydrogen from both water and natural gas. While we may not be able to toss a banana peel into the gas tank and head off al a back to the future, that very same banana peel when used in a hydrogen production facility can ultimately be a key ingredient in the production of the fuel that will fill the tank of hydrogen powered cars.<\/p>\n

Hydrogen powered cars can utilize hydrogen through several different methods. A hydrogen internal combustion engine powered vehicle utilizes the same engine used in the gasoline-powered production models with the exception of being modified to burn hydrogen fuel.<\/p>\n

Existing cars can be retrofitted as hydrogen powered cars with specially designed installations to completely do away with gasoline as the fuel source altough this could be expensive. There are also kits available that show you how to modify gasoline engines so that hydrogen gas is added to the current air gasoline mixture. This modification not only results in dramatically improved emissions, but in strikingly higher gas mileage as well.<\/p>\n

Powering cars through the use of hydrogen fuel can result in a vehicle that does not leave a carbon footprint since there are virtually no emissions. Hydrogen powered cars are also approximately three times more efficient than traditional gasoline fueled cars. Electric cars use hydrogen fuel to generate their own electricity. The hydrogen can be stored in a tank, fed into a fuel cell where it is converted into electrical power, and then used to supply the power that the vehicle requires.<\/p>\n

Hydrogen fuel is an efficiently produced energy source. While gasoline production in the United States currently requires about three hundred billion<\/a> gallons of water, the production of the same amount of hydrogen fuel takes about one hundred billion gallons. What this translates to is that hydrogen fuel production only costs roughly half of what it costs to produce the equivalent amount of gasoline.<\/p>\n

Every major automobile manufacturer is engineering its own hydrogen powered cars. Several of these hydrogen-powered models will be available in limited production in 2008. As availability of hydrogen fueling stations grows you can expect to see a steady increase in the number of hydrogen-powered vehicles in your neighborhood. Several of the automobile manufacturers are also working on home systems for hydrogen production that can not only serve as a gas pump in your driveway for your hydrogen power cars, but can also supply hydrogen fuel to generate the electricity to power your home.<\/p>\n

As far as safety concerns you can rest assured hydrogen powered cars are as safe, or safer, than their gasoline fueled counterpart. The high-pressure tanks used to contain the hydrogen have undergone extreme testing to ensure they will resist any leakage in even the most severe accidents.<\/p>\n

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Hydrogen gas can be produced using a wide variety of methods, several of which could include incineration of trash to produce the heat necessary to release hydrogen from both water and natural gas. While we may not be able to toss a banana peel into the gas tank and head off al a back to the future, that very same banana peel when used in a hydrogen production facility can ultimately be a key ingredient in the production of the fuel that will fill the tank of hydrogen powered cars.<\/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-6125","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\/6125","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=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}