Electric cars.

As they are currently doing in a large way in Orkney. They use the hydrogen to power the ferries while in port. Using it while on the voyage requires recertification of the ship's engineers but it could do the job admirably.

 

I thought hydrogen cars were electric.

 

Personally, I am not a big fan of hydrogen.
The overall loss of converting electricity into hydrogen, transporting it, and then converting it back to electrical power makes it a really bad solution.
Additionally, most hydrogen produced at the moment comes from cracking natural gas, which makes it even worse than just burning the gas directly in a combustion engine.

A third point is the tendency of hydrogen to create an explosive atmosphere with oxygen and to migrate through most materials.

All in all, I see it as more feasible in larger engines than your normal everyday car. A niche, occupied by diesel at the moment.

 

What ever you use seems to have lots of big problems.
Most seem to have more disadvantages than the one advantage they are trying to achieve.

 

True, but none of these seep out of a defective fuel line, collect at the roof of the garage and explode when you flip the light switch. Hydrogen however....

 

I'm sure @shiney remembers the R101 and the Hindenburg.


I actually wrote this about 3hrs ago and didn't push post.

 

But you could say the same for LPG and all kinds of combustible fuel.
I believe just charging a battery gives of hydrogen.

It's how you handle it that counts.

Bloke from the water board saying there is no way we can fix every leak, we must always expect to lose 20%.

Imagine the problems we would have if he was running the gas board.

 

Back to the furture, nuclear car, must be true i seen it on tv