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Originally Posted by Scotsman
How about liquid hydrogen???
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If you can develop a cheap, and easy way to
keep liquid hydrogen in liquid form while onboard cars...you'll be GM's hero forever.
I for one am in favor of a hydro/solar/wind/clean-coal powered grid and electric cars running off of it. (i.e. Volt)
And to power that little generator on board, as well as our big-honkin' V8s...or V6's, I like Ethanol. It just makes sense to me, when you look at switchgrass, or garbage dumps...there's just nothing that seems wrong about it to me. Nothin'.
Apart from that, I think it's kind of a cool concept to have compressed-air powered vehicles. From what I understand, it works the same as an IC engine, except no fuel or spark. Just air. Cylinder goes up; WHOOSH cylinder goes down. Cylinder goes up again; WHOOSH cylinder goes down. It's twice as efficient as our current engines. And you'd get to keep something of an exaust note.
3-5 minutes to pressurize-up, and about 200 miles on one "tank".
I also hear about salt-water cars. Something about radio waves, and salt water seems to make a big boom. IC engines could be adapted to that concept.