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UK's Loughborough Uni Demos Hydrogen Motorcycle
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."
LUFBRA for the win!
No, it is't pronounced "Loogabarooga".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Or... How propaganda and political meddling manage to send science research down blind alleys for 10 years.
Sorry. The Hydrogen infrastructure not only isn't going to happen, it would be a disaster if it did.
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The artcle states it uses renewable energy to create the electricity to power the electrolysis of the water. Therefore there are no byproducts at that end and oxygen is the only byproduct in the electrolysis, but as this can also be sold I wouldn't say its a by product. As for the combustion of Hydrogen in the engine, it is combusted in oxygen which forms everyones favourite molecule H2O. It is pretty much the cleanest form of power generation there is.
There are a lot of people who ride scooters that can't top 50 mph. Obviously you can't go on the freeway, but they are plenty powerful for regular city streets. They are especially useful in urban areas.