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UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle

Posted by timothy on from the drinking-tube-straight-from-exhaust dept.

rolandw writes "The Beeb have a piece about Loughborough University's hydrogen motorcycle and one of the UK's first hydrogen fuel pumps (presumably all developed by their excellent Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering department). Offering 50mph, the ENV will have a range of 100 miles on a 3-minute refill of hydrogen. By-products are warm air and 'drinkable' water. It will be interesting to compare these hydrogen powered vehicles with the hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles as pioneered by such as the Morgan prototype 'Lifecar' in the near future."

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  1. Do you mean to say by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that someone has figured out a way to run an internal combustion engine on fuel and oxygen?

    I'm flabbergasted.

  2. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a motorcycle that runs on red herring, slated to be the replacement of fossil fuels and answer to all our portable energy needs.

  3. Problem by philspear · · Score: 2, Funny

    How do they keep it from floating away? Won't someone think of the humanity?!?!

    (Kidding, I know it won't, I'm assuming the hydrogen is compressed and won't provide lift as a result, and have heard all about how the hindenburg burned because of rocket fuel paint, so don't start)

  4. Re:LUFBRA by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

    LUFBRA for the win!
    No, it is't pronounced "Loogabarooga".

    No no no, it's spelled, "Raymond Luxury Yacht," but it's pronounced, "Throatwobbler Mangrove".

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