Linnard?s hydrogen on demand system without electricity !

[motofox]

Imagine living in England, petrol here is ?1.10 per litre !  luckily i run a turbo diesil VW, and it does about 50mpg, even better when i tip vegitable oil in it. But saving money is not the main reason for me. i think if this or somthing similar is successfull, it would change the world for the better real real quick. My ideal goal would be an electric car, that charged up batteries over night using a cell like this. Its time the combustion engine was laid to rest.

[NssB]

Hey Moto,

I live in Scotland, and know all about those prices
The overnight charge sounds like a spot on idea. They say that 78% of Americans could run their vehicle on 1 single charge per day meaning they would not burn 1 single drop of petrol in doing so. This sort of overnight charge would indeed make this a possibility.

The trouble is, most people do not have the money to get hold of an electric engine to replace their dirty big world polluting petrol/diesel engines. Ultimately, unless someone comes up with an "OU" method of hydrogen production of substantial quantities and a cheap method of protecting the current crop of ICE's from corrosion through solely burning Hydrogen, then the electric car is the way forward in my view.

NssB

EDIT:

I ran a very quick/crude calculation: According to a website I looked at ---> http://www.ijc.org/rel/focus/v20i1/feat08.html
The battery capacity of the tested Electric car is approx 50Ah.
Assuming a charge rate current of 2 FULL AMPS, it would take approx 25 hours to reach full capacity at 100% efficiency.
You can play with the numbers by visiting this site ----> http://www.csgnetwork.com/batterychgcalc.html

So folks, these are the sorts of numbers we are realistically looking at.
For those that want to know, on a full charge at 50Ah, an efficient driver operating at 0.8Ah's per mile, you will get 40 miles at 100% efficiency.

[ResinRat2]

Quote from Linnard Griffin on his electrolysis process:

"By my calculations the footprint for a reactor to supply hydrogen for a 10 KW fuel cell is one cubic meter."

Should be sufficient

[readyakira]

The only big problem I see with electric cars is what to do with old batteries.  I would think all types of batteries we have so far would be hazardous thus not much better for the enviroment then petrol.  I really believe hydrogen is the future as we can concieve it, but yes OU will be a major factor.

[Super God]

Quote from Linnard Griffin on his electrolysis process:

"By my calculations the footprint for a reactor to supply hydrogen for a 10 KW fuel cell is one cubic meter."

Should be sufficient

Based on a conversion done by someone called 'Gav' on youtube, his dc motor sucked out 20kw when he floored it, and he got some pretty decent acceleration too!  1 cubic meter should be able to fit in a car somewhere