how do hydrogen fuel cell cars work? what are the fuel possibilities honda has come with?Pros and COns?
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how do hydrogen fuel cell cars work? what are the fuel possibilities honda has come with?Pros and COns?
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sorry but that other answer is wrong, hydrogen fuel cells don’t burn the hydrogen they combine it back with oxogen from the air to release electricity when it form water again, the water just drips out the tail pipe and the electricity is used to power the motor
is it complicated but basically there are very thin plates that act like filters where the hydrogen and oxogen pass through to each other where they release electrons which then run along the plate to the motor
hydrogen is basically used like a very powerful battery to run an electric car
the only down side of this technology is the way you choose to make the hydrogen
there are three ways to make it, easiest way is to put electrodes in water and collect the hydrogen as it separates from the oxogen but you need to create the electricity to make it separate so if you are using say a coal fired power plant for your electricity then you are kinda counteracting the clean power benefits from using the hydrogen
Honda has just released their first Hydrogen car (FCX Clarity).
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/?ef_id=1097:3:s_187a8df27e4f4fe2e23efed5ffd3265a_1053084642:asUQsNB6B2YAAGLm1u8AAAAe:20080123175430
“The FCX Clarity is a next-generation, zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle based on the entirely-new Honda V Flow fuel cell platform, and powered by the highly compact, efficient and powerful Honda V Flow fuel cell stack.”
http://world.honda.com/news/2007/4071114All-New-FCX/
It definitely has potential for “future car technology”. In fact Honda just gave the first Individual Customer from Las Angeles a 2 year lease on the FCX.
http://world.honda.com/news/2005/4050629.html
I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago and now currently run 2 trucks, my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen and offer a step by step DIY guide to walk anyone interested threw the process. You can find it at www agua-luna com or you can email me.
Let me start off by saying Hydrogen is a great option for the concept of free energy. I built my first hydrogen cell about 5 years ago. Have converted over 50 vehicles in the last 10 years (hydrogen and EV) and now currently run 2 trucks (and another EV), my home hot water heater, home stove and home generator on hydrogen for free with caught rain water and the help of a $10 solar panel. I offer a step by step DIY guide to walk anyone interested threw the process. You can find it at www agua-luna com or you can email me.
There are basically 3 safe ways to make and use it… chemically, electrically and molecularly, the first 2 being easier so I’ll only discuss them here. The fallowing steps were taking directly out of a DIY guide I offer to those who would like to run their vehicles or home on hydrogen safely. The entire guide is available at www agua-luna com
On demand h2 generators are a bit different from the Hollywood versions like seen Chain Reaction with Keanu Reeves, that tend to explode violently every time a film is being made. However when used in an on-demand system there is no storage of hydrogen and oxygen in its gas form, only liquid (water) and is only transformed into gas “on-demand†in small cylinder size amounts. It’s actually safer then gasoline as it doesn’t evaporate, creating explosive fumes in the tank like gas. the following were actually taken out of my $5 guide available at www agua-luna com
Chemically
1. You’ll need a 6inch x 1ft schedule 40 pvc pipe. With pvc cement glue a cap on the bottom and use a screw on cap for the top. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, screwing in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).
2. Now crunch up a couple aluminum cans (beer cans, soda cans etc) and drop them into the pvc pipe, along with a couple cups of lye (Red Devil drain opener has lye in it, some Clorox and Drano’s do to).
3. Then simply add water, screw on the top and wait a few minutes.
What happens in simplicity is that aluminum and lye don’t really get along so they battle, and as always the innocent civilians (water H2O) that the most casualties, by giving up its hydrogen and oxygen. This then builds up in the void of the pipe and is ready to be vented into your engine, by opening the valve. You may need to start your engine on gas then switch it off after the hydrogen starts burning.
Electrical is a bit easier then Chemically.
1. Simply take a small solar panel 1.5 amps is what I use ($9 at harborfreight.com), connect the 2 wires from the panel +- to 2 conductors (carbon cores of batteries work well, just be careful removing it from the jacket), but any conductive material will work ie. Copper, aluminum, steel, etc.
2. Drop the wires into a water tank (I use 55gal drums), make sure they don’t touch each other.
3. Drill a small hole (1/4inch or so) in the side close to the top, screwing in a small copper shut off valve. Place a few feet of stranded (food grade is good) flex hose to the valve and into the air intake of your engine (carburetor or fuel injections).
4. Then simply add water, screw on the top cap and wait.
After a few hours tiny bubbles will form and rise off one conductor (that’s hydrogen) and even smaller bubbles that just looks like foam will rise off the other (oxygen). I don’t remember which likes the positive and which likes the neg hydrogen or the oxygen.
The third method is more complicated and is what I use for my vehicles. It’s just a modified Joe’s Cell, there’s a step by step DIY guide available to walk you threw the process here www agua-luna com
It also covers the other 2 methods described in more detail.
www agua-luna com
Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like
Honda has a fuel cell (look them up yourself on how they work, the other poster has given a nice simple explanation). The Honda is not for sale as no one can afford one, instead you can lease them. To fill the tank with H2 gas, Honda will also lease a H2 generator that gets H2 from natural gas. About 95% of all H2 comes from burning natural gas, about 2% from electrolysis of water.
In any case, to make H2 gas you apply 100 units of energy and get 50 units of energy out in the form of H2 gas, so its very inefficient. As for being clean, well, the car is clean, but the place where the H2 is made is just as dirty as other cars. Don’t you just hate it when you don’t get the whole story!!
Anyone that uses H2 as a fuel is wasting valuable energy and should be told the error of their ways. But, they are typically only interested in making a quick buck.
honda are planning to make another one, a much more better and revised version of hydro cars, new concepts and styles, lets just wait and see if people will be interested with their works, but actually it cost too much and thats what makes me sick..