Hydrogen fuel cell MB?
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Doesn't look like a for-sale product, proto and or vaporware.I saw some engineer college kids did something similar, not for the masses in our lifetime.
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the story i suspect u refer to was kids at usnw here in oz.
sounded great, but nothing since 5 years ago.?
the killer was, no compressed hydrogen. they had a way of impregnating it in cannisters of crystals.
just get a 2$ cannister at the shop for another 120k range. It only put out 100-150w, fine, as intended, to trickle charge a battery.
sounded great, but nothing since 5 years ago.?
the killer was, no compressed hydrogen. they had a way of impregnating it in cannisters of crystals.
just get a 2$ cannister at the shop for another 120k range. It only put out 100-150w, fine, as intended, to trickle charge a battery.
I made lots of hydrogen generators ezy costs next to nothing but will take your head off if you don't know what you are doing. Get 2 sheets of stainless steel one positive one negative in warter to a battery or power out put it works on eny voltage turn it on see bubbles coming off the steel that's hydrogen put a little dish wash in the warter then light the bigger bubbles on the warter thay bang like a fire cracker don't seal the bottle then light the hose comeing out it will blow I hade 2gram of hydrogen and it exploded the nutaninja hi pressure bottle to little bits dint the wall the roof every thing missed me some how I couldn't see or hear it's like a flash bang I imagine.. Have fun
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Been a while since I came back to this thread but from what I have loosely learned about hydrogen fuel cells is they have been known to get better range than battery electric vehicles & at half the weight. I was toying with the idea of building my own fuel cell & whiring it to a 1k to 2k watt electric motor & bolting it to a bike somehow. But one of the problems is hydrogen isn't easy to come by & I think a permit is required to buy hydrogen.
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I saw a propane operated scooter, small thing it was, don't K of if it was 2 or 4 stroke, but I don't K of how it could get oil if it were a 2, ran on standard camping propane canisters, kinda cool and easy to get replacement fuel, and they sell those refill valves you can use to fill them back up with, don't know the distance you get from a can though...
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And on another note,
Brunton Hydrogen Reactor Portable Fuel Cell Multi-colored http://www.walmart.com/ip/Brunton-B...54378&wl11=online&wl12=34586848&wl13=&veh=sem
Link to that hydrogen fuel cell, portable, don't know anything about it but Walmart sells it
Brunton Hydrogen Reactor Portable Fuel Cell Multi-colored http://www.walmart.com/ip/Brunton-B...54378&wl11=online&wl12=34586848&wl13=&veh=sem
Link to that hydrogen fuel cell, portable, don't know anything about it but Walmart sells it
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yay, hydrogen...hard to store, hard to produce, yay...
yep, we can just run some electricity through water (add some salt/acid/electrolyte and watch the bubbles erupt!) but where do we obtain the electricity from? compress the hydrogen? and hydrogen, being so light and volatile...its pretty hard to compress to the point of liquefication (where as butane/lpg can be decanted into a bowl, then left lying open in the freezer without evaporating away too fast...very low pressure required for rendering it into a nice compact liquid fuel) which is also an issue with another common fuel gas, methane...or natural gas. the pressures involved are ridiculously high. gan get butane/propane/lpg just about anywhere...i am yet to find a source of natural gas though (and au is the biggest producer of it...strange huh?)
and of course, we also need oxygen for the fuel cell to operate... so now we need to store pure oxygen too.
cant use atmospheric air, it tends to poison the catalyst that produces the electricity... or detracts from the efficiency of the unit.
nope...im sold on the batteries, in conjunction with super capacitors and regenerative braking systems for electric drives. hydrogen is just another one of those "exotic" words thats thrown around by uni graduates and every ignorant fool that reads articles in magazines thinks it is the next big thing... they also probably think that deuterium and tritium will increase performance... nope. sorry. just makes water that weighs more than 1kg per Liter.
plenty of rumours or urban legends of guys running cars on water... ive rescued at least four different types of electrolysis unit from the scrap yard...but none have actually worked as well as was probably envisioned by the creators... (though i wont rule the idea out...)
(though there is a strange phenomenon in chemistry, where "nascent"(newly produced) hydrogen is FAR MORE REACTIVE than old, bottled hydrogen... something to do with monatomics rather than molecular?)
what happened to the guy that worked for british leyland that had the idea "if plants can use urine to grow(run) on...why cant i do the same with a car?"
apparently he succeeded. and that was him, out of a job...never to be heard of again...
takes the piss out of the joke of the butterfly and the bee driving along and running out of fuel... bee pisses in tank, they keep driving til it runs out of fuel again. butterfly offers to piss in tank this time... "nah, she only runs on BP..."
yep, we can just run some electricity through water (add some salt/acid/electrolyte and watch the bubbles erupt!) but where do we obtain the electricity from? compress the hydrogen? and hydrogen, being so light and volatile...its pretty hard to compress to the point of liquefication (where as butane/lpg can be decanted into a bowl, then left lying open in the freezer without evaporating away too fast...very low pressure required for rendering it into a nice compact liquid fuel) which is also an issue with another common fuel gas, methane...or natural gas. the pressures involved are ridiculously high. gan get butane/propane/lpg just about anywhere...i am yet to find a source of natural gas though (and au is the biggest producer of it...strange huh?)
and of course, we also need oxygen for the fuel cell to operate... so now we need to store pure oxygen too.
cant use atmospheric air, it tends to poison the catalyst that produces the electricity... or detracts from the efficiency of the unit.
nope...im sold on the batteries, in conjunction with super capacitors and regenerative braking systems for electric drives. hydrogen is just another one of those "exotic" words thats thrown around by uni graduates and every ignorant fool that reads articles in magazines thinks it is the next big thing... they also probably think that deuterium and tritium will increase performance... nope. sorry. just makes water that weighs more than 1kg per Liter.
plenty of rumours or urban legends of guys running cars on water... ive rescued at least four different types of electrolysis unit from the scrap yard...but none have actually worked as well as was probably envisioned by the creators... (though i wont rule the idea out...)
(though there is a strange phenomenon in chemistry, where "nascent"(newly produced) hydrogen is FAR MORE REACTIVE than old, bottled hydrogen... something to do with monatomics rather than molecular?)
what happened to the guy that worked for british leyland that had the idea "if plants can use urine to grow(run) on...why cant i do the same with a car?"
apparently he succeeded. and that was him, out of a job...never to be heard of again...
takes the piss out of the joke of the butterfly and the bee driving along and running out of fuel... bee pisses in tank, they keep driving til it runs out of fuel again. butterfly offers to piss in tank this time... "nah, she only runs on BP..."
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