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Old 11-29-2012, 05:11 PM   #281 (permalink)
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The main issue with these "hidden technologies" compared to gas/diesel is that gas and diesel have a lot of energy per unit of volume.

Why?

Because mother nature has been breaking down, compacting, and extracting the energy into the form of crude for millions of years.

We currently have no technology that can replicate this process in a manageable/renewable time frame. Until that day comes we will be on crude based engines.

Electric is the future for simplicity and everything but batteries have a long way to go along with creating the electricity cleaning/efficiently to power the cars.

The same key to electric cars hold true for HHO in that the most efficient way to split water is with high-temperature electrolysis but that requires nuclear reactor like conditions to even compete with natural gas or coal.

The difference might come in the form of solar energy splitting but then it is more likely and stable to just use the solar electricity directly to the car instead of HHO and having to store hydrogen.

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