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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."
And then limited even lower? Half of my commute is a 60 limit.
Riding gutless motorcycles at speeds lower than the surrounding traffic is plain dangerous and damned scary, whether they're powered by hydrogen, petrol, or whatever. Impatient traffic tailgates you trying to intimidate you into going faster, or tries to overtake, forcing you into the gutter. One of the main safety features of a motorcycle is that they're quicker an nimbler than almost anything else on the road - if things look as if they're going wrong, it's common to accelerate away from the source of danger. With this bike, there's no escape route.
Hydrogen vehicles aren't going to get anywhere until they're a fully fledged road user, rather than a second class citizen.
Oh come on, you can't make a comment like that and not explain it! Although given current methods for hydrogen production, I agree with you.
Did anyone notice the front forks, brakes and wheel? Looks like they were taken from my downhill bike! Safe at 50mph? Hmm..