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Car: Hydrogen Power Posted By Staff On March 24, 2010 @ 12:00 am
In Mr. Green Car | No Comments By Allen Penticoff All motor
vehicles other than pure electrics rely on hydrocarbons to
provide the energy needed to power them. The fuels have hydrogen
that burns with oxygen to create the power. The problem is that
the carbon in hydrocarbon is useless to the combustion process,
and results in air pollution and carbon build-up in the engines.
If you could operate an engine on pure hydrogen, you could have
the power you need without the pollution that comes from the
carbon molecules. You can, and these are called “H2” cars. There
are two ways to propel a vehicle with hydrogen. One is to burn
it directly in an engine; the other is to process it in a fuel
cell that creates electricity. The former is very ordinary—it is
indeed possible to operate a normal reciprocating engine on
hydrogen with some conversion, though there are some limitations
I’ll describe