Will this be tomorrow's transportation?

[dickfoster]

DF, there are guys on the net who seem to demonstrate that electrolysis produced by a cars alternator can keep an engine running, and it's entirely plausible ... as long as the water pump and alt are the only loads on the demo engine. :scratchchin: No one ever shows a car with AT in gear or being driven. btw, Energy exchanges have various inefficiencies, but basically I say you're dead-on about what could easily be done. (and w/MSRs )

Gotta keep your eye peeled for those perpetual motion idjits and mason jar fusion types. LOL

 

[Egon]

And keeping it liquid takes a lot more than just a tank

Hydrogen storage.


Here are some examples of hydrogen refuelling stations so it should work!
[video]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_station[/video]

 

[/pine]

Gotta keep your eye peeled for those perpetual motion idjits and mason jar fusion types. LOL

I think future innovations in transportation will be more about zero friction and anti-gravity physics than about energy transformations...
In abstract...just look what they can and are learning to do with carbon chains...

 

[buickanddeere]

The molten salt reactor eventually will have to be adopted world wide for clean reliable baseload power. The PHWR CANDU does make a good breeder reactor to manufacture some desirable elements.

 

[houstonscott]

Alternative fuels have been fully explored, CO2 has proven not to be a warming gas, no threat there, the inertial combustion engine is a very mature technology. Natural gas is replacing coal for large scale electric generation, thanks to fracking it's in abundance. Oh, yeah, fracking has done more to reduce emissions than anything the government could do.. Electric cars are interesting but not practical, no one really wants a battery car, and battery production is very dirty, so dirty it can't legally be made in USA. Takes very rare resources that could be uses other places. Nearly 100 percent of electric cars and hybrids are heavy subsidized by government. In the free market place they go away. HS

 

[Egon]

Alternative fuels have been fully explored, CO2 has proven not to be a warming gas, no threat there, the inertial combustion engine is a very mature technology. Natural gas is replacing coal for large scale electric generation, thanks to fracking it's in abundance. Oh, yeah, fracking has done more to reduce emissions than anything the government could do.. Electric cars are interesting but not practical, no one really wants a battery car, and battery production is very dirty, so dirty it can't legally be made in USA. Takes very rare resources that could be uses other places. Nearly 100 percent of electric cars and hybrids are heavy subsidized by government. In the free market place they go away. HS

Stage coaches were also well established at one time!

 

[houstonscott]

Stage coaches were also well established at one time!

Yeah, my point, we're not going back to electric cars. They didn't work in 1900 and they are the stage coach of today. No ones going to continue to buy power at 8-12x the cost, for power generated by machines that kill Eagles at the Obama authorized rate of 4200 a year. HS

 

[vvanders]

Alternative fuels have been fully explored, CO2 has proven not to be a warming gas, no threat there, the inertial combustion engine is a very mature technology. Natural gas is replacing coal for large scale electric generation, thanks to fracking it's in abundance. Oh, yeah, fracking has done more to reduce emissions than anything the government could do.. Electric cars are interesting but not practical, no one really wants a battery car, and battery production is very dirty, so dirty it can't legally be made in USA. Takes very rare resources that could be uses other places. Nearly 100 percent of electric cars and hybrids are heavy subsidized by government. In the free market place they go away. HS

Uf da, so many things wrong with all you've said there.

CO2 is definitely a greenhouse gas and has been shown to be contributing to increasing temperatures. We're not talking about some random institution but some of the brightest minds at NASA http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ . The rest of the world understands this and it still floors me that this lie is pervasive in the US. Unless you want to tell me that NASA, you know the guys who put man on the moon have no clue what they're talking about.

With respect to battery production, have multiple sources for that? Someone might want to tell Elon Musk considering they're already building one of the biggest battery factories in the world in Nevada.

 

[/pine]

Uf da, so many things wrong with all you've said there.

CO2 is definitely a greenhouse gas and has been shown to be contributing to increasing temperatures. We're not talking about some random institution but some of the brightest minds at NASA Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet: Causes . The rest of the world understands this and it still floors me that this lie is pervasive in the US. Unless you want to tell me that NASA, you know the guys who put man on the moon have no clue what they're talking about.

With respect to battery production, have multiple sources for that? Someone might want to tell Elon Musk considering they're already building one of the biggest battery factories in the world in Nevada.

Uf da
proof nasa lied about global warming - Google Search

 

[houstonscott]

Uf da, so many things wrong with all you've said there. CO2 is definitely a greenhouse gas and has been shown to be contributing to increasing temperatures. We're not talking about some random institution but some of the brightest minds at NASA http://climate.nasa.gov/causes/ . The rest of the world understands this and it still floors me that this lie is pervasive in the US. Unless you want to tell me that NASA, you know the guys who put man on the moon have no clue what they're talking about. With respect to battery production, have multiple sources for that? Someone might want to tell Elon Musk considering they're already building one of the biggest battery factories in the world in Nevada.

Elon Musk isn't building anything, the American tax payers are..... They have tried everything to prove CO2 is a so called greenhouse gas and every one of the brightest minds have been wrong for over 40 years now, so, no so bright in my book. Those brilliant ones are still looking for the heat, can't find it, might be the deep ocean is the latest excuse. It's very simple if the sun warms the earth warms, if the sun cools the earth cools, if the sun is closer to earth it warms, if it moves away it cools. Nothing else matters. Oh, by the way a NASA scientist to me this.... HS