Dennis Gibson Kenet Adamson ENG-111 6 March 2015 Hydrogen over Combustion Cars are an integral part of life today in the modern world. In America, as an example, society has become very reliant on automobiles. In the past, towns and cities where small microcosms, overall. Today, however, towns and cities have grown larger, and farther apart. Roads flow across what used to be countryside, through mountains, and over rivers. This links the people together and allows for the transaction of goods like food, materials, and even ideas. However, cars today, as a marvelous technological advancement as they are, run off of fuels that produce a foul gaseous byproduct that continues to erode our environment day by day. Any glance onto a city street or arching highway will show the massive amount of these cars that are on the road today, all of these are releasing their carbon by-product into the atmosphere. There is also a rife search for alternative energies today; cars powered by hydrogen gas may be an answer. While hydrogen powered cars have their shortcomings, hydrogen powered cars are a more effective, efficient, and environmentally friendly option compared to internal-combustion automobiles. Hydrogen powered cars are the flying cars that generations passed dreamed about. Even though they do not fly through the air, they are the car of the future. Hydrogen powered cars can be a complex subject, just as any new scientific incursion. This means that the field is constantly
This source mainly concentrates on the use of hydrogen fuel cells as an alternative to the United States dependency on foreign oil. It elaborates on the negatives of our countries reliance upon external sources for the vast majority of our power production needs, and suggests that hydrogen fuel cells are the answer to a sustainable energy future. The author is a writer for CQ Researcher who concentrates on energy, environmental, and defense issues. While the article is mainly geared toward individuals interested in the automotive industry and the applications of hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles, it does an excellent job of contrasting oil based
Chapter 6, “The Burden of History: Expectations Past and Imperfect” from Kirsch’s book, The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History, focuses on the problem of automobiles in the modern day. Kirsch states that internal combustion engines release greenhouse gasses, which harm the environment. Each individual contributes to air pollution
Using hydrogen fuel is another way to increase power of engines. Compared to other fuels, hydrogen combustion is powerful. It can easily take off hundreds of tonnes and reach a speed of more than the sound (for examples, rocket use hydrogen combustion to take off) As the rockets use it, they reach a speed more than sound few minutes and just imagine what a speed cars will have by using hydrogen.
Hydrogen, as an energy source for AFV can be used in the form of either an internal combustion engine or a fuel cell where hydrogen is mixed with oxygen to produce electrical power. Current experimentation, testing and development are in process from all major automotive manufacturers in North America, Europe and Japan. There is no infrastructure for the refueling of hydrogen powered vehicles, nor are any readily available hydrogen powered vehicles being produced for
The push to design and develop different methods of propulsion for motor vehicles came only after petroleum solutions became exhausted. Emissions reduction policies and the rising price of oil forced automakers to pursue more fuel efficient vehicles and eventually alternatively fueled vehicles. While the hybrid electric vehicle and the plug-in electric car have proven to be more viable solutions in the near term, the need for hydrogen fuel cells will only increase.
Fuel availability is an everyday thing. You just go to the service station down the road and fill up for a decent price. However to produce fuels it is a bit more complicated. Fuel is made by the fossil fuels that are deep in the ground formed thousands and thousands years ago. It was made by dead organism. However, fuel is reliable but it is running out fast, so we need another energy source for our everyday needs. Hydrogen powered cars are very environmentally friendly, they do not admit any sort of harmful fumes into the air. It produces steam instead of exhaust gases. The things that makes this car able to drive is a fuel cell. It converts the hydrogen into electricity producing heat and water as by products. We collect Hydrogen from water,
The research and efforts are under way to build the hydrogen fueling infrastructure and produce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that are practical for widespread use. Hydrogen, or H2, is produced from domestic resources. Although in its market infancy as a transportation fuel, government and industry are working towards clean, economical, and safe hydrogen production and distribution for use in fuel cell vehicles. Fuel cell vehicles are starting to enter the consumer market in localized regions domestically and around the world. This resource ranges from school buses to military
Hydrogen cars are better because they go a longer driving distance according to Danielle Muoio hydrogen cars can go 300 mile per hydrogen cell! Hydrogen cars can also refuel in a minimum of 3 minutes. Dnews says ‘’hydrogen-powered cars are hitting the road this year, and eventually one's going to be in a crash so what would happen would it explode?’’ In the video he talks about how when the hydrogen car gets in a crash the hydrogen cell would not start a fire because the hydrogen would evaporate almost instantly be the gas doesn't evaporate because the gas is heavy. The hydrogen car is just like the gas car but with better mileage, can go longer distance, faster recharge, environmentally friendly and they don't make pollution or
In today’s sociality almost every aspect of life depends on the use of energy, especially in automobiles. There are about 253 million automobiles in the United States, but only about 500,000 of them are electric based. That is why I chose the topic to inform people of hydrogen powered electric cars. While, there is a large supply of fossil fuel, it is important to note that fossil fuels are a non-renewable source of energy. It is important to incorporate renewable sources of energy such as electricity in case we run out of fossil fuel. Therefore, electric powered cars should be popularized to limit the dependence on fossil fuel. There are many methods that generate electricity such as: solar, wind, hydropower, and hydrogen.
Climate change and transportation play a big role and it is important to be concerned for our future generations. The use of gasoline cars is a major producer in carbon dioxide emissions, although they are not entirely responsible for it—they play a role in it. Other form of transportations like buses and taxis also contribute to carbon dioxide emissions. The total amount of carbon dioxide emissions from an average car is seventy six percent which comes from usage of a vehicle containing gasoline. Efficiency has increased by twenty percent in regards to electric motors, especially when it comes to their wheels using no power when the car is at rest. Car ownership will increase and with this, improvements in technology could be a vital
The effect of pollution that is emitted from vehicles is a serious concern in today 's society. The cause of this pollution is the toxic emissions from current vehicles. This toxic emissions or pollution destroys the Earth 's ozone layer or atmospheric gases Acknowledging these facts, many are very concerned with the condition of the Earth 's atmospheric gases in the future. In just a very short time, scientists produced a new vehicle which only emits water out of its exhaust rather than carbon monoxide and other toxic pollutants in modern day internal combustion engines. The Hydrogen automobiles do not require gasoline or ethanol to function, but all they require in Hydrogen. As the name entails, Hydrogen
Recent years have shown an increasingly large need for a practical renewable energy source for such reasons as diminishing fossil fuels and increases in greenhouse gasses. Hydrogen appears to be a way out of this gasoline-dug hole, or at least, a way out in the future. Hydrogen fuel cell cars are being engineered as we speak as the technologies to refuel them cleanly are being proposed. Unfortunately, most of the technologies associated with hydrogen are still in the prototype/pre-production stages and require better enhancements before becoming mainstream. This paper assesses the practicality of hydrogen power in cars both now and in the future while explicating the actual process of how a
It is rational to express caution in hydrogen based rail transport; furthermore, extensive testing prior to implementation is a must, nonetheless how in frequent rail incidents are in contrast to road. Implementing hydrogen technologies with past associations with disasters such as the Hindenburg must focus on gaining the trust of the public. To bridge the gap between the unfamiliarity of hydrogen power with those unaware of its advancements in
However, the other side of the coin raises the issue of fuel consumption and environmental pollution. The current trend in fuel prices has depicted a major challenge of fuel shortages both at present and in future. As a result, governments and other stakeholders in the energy sector have been prompted to set higher fuel-efficiency standards to curb the imminent fuel crisis. At the same time, environmentalists have been up in arms against the trend of CO2 emissions from vehicles and industries citing the resultant devastating effects of global warming. Governments have faced increasing pressure from advocates of environmental sustainability to put in place concrete measures to eradicate the problem of fuel-inefficiency especially in relation to the transport sector. Therefore, the argument of whether cars ought to be made more efficient has been motivated by the dire need to reduce CO2 emissions from cars (Government, 2003, p. 20025).
Hydrogen cars are currently being produced, but the cost of these cars is much more than the average American can afford. For example, the Hydrogen Shelby Cobra starts at $150,000. The Cobra holds four gallons and can get 25 miles to the gallon. This is a major problem, especially due to