The hell with Fossil fuel. Protecting our environment is more important than money.
Of course if someone were to develope a system that uses less energy to create hydrogen than it produces. "Free Energy" such as in the movie "Chain Reaction" powerfull people would go to any extent to destroy the technology.
The world is fueled by greed and power. If such a technology were built, the billionares who depend on their black gold would go bankrupt. And some social economic systems to fail.
Oviously there is going to be loss in energy due to friction from the road, gravity and from drag from air. Wind resistance or drag has a major impact on the efficiency of the car. If you were to use a turbine to use some of this wind resistance, would there be a net loss in energy?
A well designed turbine could perhaps harness the wind, and blow excess wind presure back into the intake of the engine, causing a forced induction along with energy to create hydrogen.
Also, braking is a waiste of energy, why not use that loss energy to create additional hydrogen.
I have had this idea of a car that can produce it's own hydrogen fuel for years now. Considering I live in Vancouver, Solar energy is not the most plausible choice to produce hydrogen. This is my idea:
What do you think of the idea plugging in the car to 240volt source while parking and using built in electrolysis in the car to convert and store both hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is the main source of energy, while the oxygen is used to boost the combustion. Some of the energy from the engine would be generated to power electrolysis separation of H20.
The other idea is to use Ballard fuel cell technology which converts hydrogen to electricity to power electric motors. Braking could be used to assist to create hydrogen.
Other ideas to harness energy is to use turbines to create electricity and therefore assist in the creation of hydrogen.
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The hell with Fossil fuel. Protecting our environment is more important than money. Of course if someone were to develope a system that uses less energy to create hydrogen than it produces. "Free Energy" such as in the movie "Chain Reaction" powerfull people would go to any extent to destroy the technology. The world is fueled by greed and power. If such a technology were built, the billionares who depend on their black gold would go bankrupt. And some social economic systems to fail.
Oviously there is going to be loss in energy due to friction from the road, gravity and from drag from air. Wind resistance or drag has a major impact on the efficiency of the car. If you were to use a turbine to use some of this wind resistance, would there be a net loss in energy? A well designed turbine could perhaps harness the wind, and blow excess wind presure back into the intake of the engine, causing a forced induction along with energy to create hydrogen. Also, braking is a waiste of energy, why not use that loss energy to create additional hydrogen.
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I have had this idea of a car that can produce it's own hydrogen fuel for years now. Considering I live in Vancouver, Solar energy is not the most plausible choice to produce hydrogen. This is my idea: What do you think of the idea plugging in the car to 240volt source while parking and using built in electrolysis in the car to convert and store both hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is the main source of energy, while the oxygen is used to boost the combustion. Some of the energy from the engine would be generated to power electrolysis separation of H20. The other idea is to use Ballard fuel cell technology which converts hydrogen to electricity to power electric motors. Braking could be used to assist to create hydrogen. Other ideas to harness energy is to use turbines to create electricity and therefore assist in the creation of hydrogen.