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Do You Think That Cars Could Operate Without Gas Or Being Charged With Electricity?

In the near future? I have heard of a retired engineer that is friend’s of a friend that has experimented with this.
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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M
Hydrogen usage has many many problems to overcome none of which are feasible at the moment including simple things like generation and storage and transportation and safety. It takes a lot of energy to generate hydrogen whether it comes from water or natural gas. Some say that it takes more energy to generate the hydrogen than you get from burning the hydrogen. Then there is the problem of storage. Hydrogen is extremely hard to store. Either it is kept at extremely high pressure or it is cooled to liquid both of which take a lot of energy. Hydrogen is also very small and quickly degenerates any vessel it is kept in as it simply goes between the atoms of the material that is keeping it. It makes steel very brittle and easy to break in an amazingly short period of time. Now imagine having a tank of hydrogen in your car. What happens in a minor collision if the tank has become brittle? Ever held a match over a test tube of hydrogen? It makes a great BANG as it all ignites at once. From our present technology I would guess that hydrogen will never be a fuel for cars.