quinta-feira, 27 de novembro de 2008

Brumm Brummm!!

Today I was watching TV, and one of the news was about the release of a new Hydrogen cell powered car.

Watch this video:





Interesting hum??

Indubitably, this is the future, but now... well... it's very expensive and challenging to have one of these.

One of the biggest problems we are facing when trying to use a car like this, is the few amount of fuel stations which provide hydrogen! This is even a bigger problem when considering this car has more or less a 400 km autonomy.

To this problem I have a simple solution. Populations are mostly distributed by the coastline so:

Coastline=Water; Water+electricity(or synthetic photosynthesis)=Hydrogen.

I don't know how accurate are those numbers but lets imagine that 10% of all fuel stations are close to the sea, a big river or a lake.(I think there are more than 10% but let's don't oversize the numbers). If those stations where connected by water distribution pipelines, and where provided by High-efficiency solar and wind generators, they could be the hydrogen producers! Advantages of this? Low cost! If we could produce our fuel, where we sell it, we won't add the transportation cost to the cost of the fuel! Perfect!

And more, in order to waste less water, each station would also be a sewage treatment station, so it would preferably use water which would never be used to drink or to water crop fields.

10% doesn't seem too much, but it would help the hydrogen cell vehicles proliferation!

Um comentário:

João Lopes disse...

Its a very interesting matter, thank you for posting, fuels are a important matter this days if we reduce the cost of fuel it will be great.