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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald
What if you filled up your tank with water and the seperator only did its thing when the car was running, storing just enough hydrogen to fill a small tank (about the size of softball) which allowed the combustion engine to start and run?
So people learn how to drive and the storage tank is housed in more central (armored) location and designed not to rupture in the event of an impact.
This is all possible. I remember in high school (waaaaaaay back in the dark ages) when my chem teacher seperated hydrogen into a balloon during a lab. He extracted a fairly full party ballon in a couple of minutes. We took it outside and he put a match too it (both on the ends of a 6 foor poles). The explosion almost knocked the windows out of the school. That's the power we should be harnessing and its accessible in water. All its going to take is some money and engineering to make it happen. Oh, and the oil lobby to not stop it!
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And you are 100% correct. The problem is the dynamics of it all.
For one, your car would only be able to run during the day, and only on really sunny days. (definitely not cloudy ones)
And the other question is; how much electricity was used to create that hydrogen?
Plus we already have another thread going on about how people can't drive in a traffic circle. Add that to the number of people who still don't wear seatbelts- do you think we could get people to change their driving habbits simply because their car is now explosive?
And I do agree that the oil companies wouldn't like it. But we don't like talking about conspiracy theories, do we?
