Gas-water hybrid for real this time?
Seems like every so often we hear another story about a water-gasoline hybrid vehicle. This time, the Malaysian company LMG has announced a vehicle called the Tourer with Hydroxene technology. This Hydroxene technology is not explicitly explained on Paul Tan's blog, who sent us the tip on this story, and I can't find more information on the company or the technology on other sites. Nonetheless, Tan says that researchers at the Universiti Sains Malaysia use an onboard system involving waste aluminum and sodium hydroxide that separates water into its components - hydrogen and oxygen. This type of amazing technology gets a skeptical eye whenever it's announced (see the comments on Tan's site or the comments on this AutoblogGreen post back in May). I don't know what to think about LMG's Tourer quite yet, but it still seems like a pipe dream?
[Source: PaulTan.org, tip submitted by Paul Tan]
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M Nadeem Siddiqui 2:21PM (1/26/2008)
Its ineteresting for the places where the gas price is always on hike .
Please advise how to take up the agency for the full range
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Vladimir 7:16PM (8/11/2008)
I can not understand people are still living in disbelief. The fact is "water hybrid" technology has been given a lot of bad light by so much junk out there with a lot of hype and little results. This technology has been around for almost 100 years, but is still experimental in fuel arena due to many factors. There is a huge movement and over 1million cars are already driving on this technology. Alone in my home town Sarajevo there are over 1500 cars like this. BTW there you pay $12 a gallon. Of course do not sell your exxon stocks yet but please keep an open mind. Fact is this works but it is a grass root level and if it were otherwise none could be able to afford this. There are already companies selling thousands of those systems like bestwaterhybrids, www.xhybrids.com or gmax. you also can find instructions to build your own systems but be aware 97% are selling 50 year old public domain information that is almost worthless. You can convert your car into a "water hybrid" but don't except miracles. We have to keep an open mind and desire to progress, if an idea does not sound unbelievable than probably it is not worth research.
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JD 9:05PM (10/27/2008)
Hurry - someone tell Honda they have wasted many millions of dollars on hydrogen powered vehicles. Wait, I'll drive home in my fuel-cell vehicle to email them myself.
http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/how-fcx-works.aspx
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prattacus 4:32PM (8/16/2006)
Pump and dump.
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Howard Lee Harkness 5:44PM (8/16/2006)
"This type of amazing technology gets a skeptical eye whenever it's announced"
Yes, Sebastian, there's a really good reason for that skepticism. Water is an ASH, occupying a remarkably stable position at the bottom of a very deep energy well. Reducing it back to its constituent hydrogen and oxygen requires reinsertion of *all* the energy released when the ash was formed. And such conversions are never 100% efficient. Therefore, hydrogen can never be a *source* of energy, only a very poor storage mechanism. These are well-understood phenomena of chemistry and physics, which no amount of Political Correctness can change.
Using hydrogen to power automobiles is insanely stupid.
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beerme 11:00PM (8/16/2006)
Howard Lee has it exactly right. Time to face the facts - Hydrogen can never be a partical energy carrier and stuff like the water car is just fradulent. Anytime there is talk of hydrogen - fuel cell, combustion or anyhting else - as a transportation energy "solution", you can find self-serving "advocates" manipulating the green hype for narrow interests.
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dothedream 4:48PM (10/11/2007)
When I hear these guys say things like "never" and "using hydrogen to power automobiles is insanely stupid," I am reminded of those that used to say the world was flat or that the automobile would never replace the horse. Well guys, I hope that you keep your low risk mutual funds in shell and exxon, so that when the crash comes you can sit outside the food stamps office waiting for your check. I promise that those of us who are already powering cars with hydrogen, who are taking these under funded, and "insane" ideas to market will provide good benefits for the poor who doubted us.
And remember, we will never go to outer space.
Cheers
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