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| tyrone schneider |
 Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:45 pm |
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Research has uncovered a rather interest turn of events into the
Global Warming Sage. And apparently complications have arisen along
with the temperatures. You see Fuel Cells generate a lot of heat
during the conversion process; nearly twice that of regular
reciprocating engines.
Solving the Nation's problems with regards to pollution is a wise
thing to do, yet if we merely trade one problem for another we have
essentially solved nothing. Are we sure we wish to increase Urban Heat
with millions of fuel cell cars running around? Hydrogen is also
difficult to store and cooling of compressed hydrogen takes energy
too.
Hydrogen collection with current technologies is not really free, as
it costs money to collect and separate out. If the hydrogen sits in
your fuel tank for three days it could leak as much as 50% and then
you would have less fuel because the hydrogen all escaped from seeping
out of your fuel tank.
Storage of hydrogen will not be so easy either because it must be kept
very cold. These are just some of the issues that research scientists
are working through right now and will eventually get it all figured
out, but consider it a longer term goal for about 10-20 years or so.
Now there have been significant recent advances and materials such as
Carbon Nano-Tubes may be the answer to prevent leakage....
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