Comments on: Iceland’s Hydrogen Powered Hybrids http://www.hybridcars.com/iceland-hydrogen-powered-hybrids-25089/ Auto alternatives for the 21st century Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:24:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Boobee http://www.hybridcars.com/iceland-hydrogen-powered-hybrids-25089/#comment-13482 Boobee Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:39:04 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress12/?p=3772#comment-13482 Storing hydrogen, mixed with pure oxygen is extremely dangerous! The reaction between hydrogen and oxygen can never ever yield hydrocarbons (very basic chemistry knowledge …)!

There are no “forms” of hydrogen. Hydrogen is hydrogen (unless you mean its isotopes, but they are not used for this purpose).

Hydrogen is also a gas, so what do you mean exactly by “gas”?

]]> By: hybridman2 http://www.hybridcars.com/iceland-hydrogen-powered-hybrids-25089/#comment-13481 hybridman2 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:18:00 +0000 http://127.0.0.1/wordpress12/?p=3772#comment-13481 I don’t believe pure hydrogen will ever hit mainstream. It does not have enough energy content, and the infrastructure is nowhere even close to being in place, especially in the US.

You cannot run a pure hydrogen injection into a normal IC engine without modification. It also can cause “embrittlement” distress to interior engine parts.

The best form of hydrogen is mixed with oxygen in the form of Brown’s gas, or HHO. The oxygen helps it to burn. Injected into a normal gasoline or diesel engine works great because gas burns slowly, hydrogen burns too quickly. The two work perfectly together with the result being lower hydrocarbons and emissions, cooler running engines (burns faster- less time to transfer heat to interior of engine), and much better mileage. SOmetimes DOUBLE, but usually more in the 20%-40% range, especially in the bigger SUV’s and trucks.

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