Dale Pulju sent me a note about the Buckeye Bullet setting a record of
300 + mph with Hydrogen. Now this brings an interesting question or
two. But first, I say well done to that effort! Now the questions:
they had previously set a record using batteries. Batteries are
electric storage devices. So the record was listed as an electrical
record. Good enough I say. But now another record is claimed as a
hydrogen record. Yet the car's drive system was electrical. Hydrogen
(actually hydrogen and oxygen mix) was used to produce electricity
which powered the car. So was the original record using batteries
really a gasoline record because the batteries that supplied the power
were charged via some generator? Or Nuke because the electrons came from
that? With the H2O2 and the fuel cells generating electrons I believe
that the record is really an electrical one. Think hard about this. Do
the rule making authorities need new definitions of what actually powers
a vehicle? Take a hybrid vehicle. Doesn't the gasoline motor provide
most of the power? If so, why is it called a hybrid? If I could put a
gasoline powered generator in a car and use the gen power to run the
electric motor that drives the wheels, would that be electrical or
fossil fuel powered? It cannot run without gasoline so is it defined as
a petroleum powered car or electrical. Isn't that what a hybrid is? Me,
I think that the drive mechanism has to be primarily fueled by something
directly and that should be the definition. for instance the car that
Jesse James used had a true hydrogen motor. The fuel was directly
powering the vehicle. The Ford Fusion and the Buckeye Bullet used
electric drive to move the vehicle and I think that is electrical. Not
hydrogen.
Any thoughtful comments out there? I am sitting here waiting for parts....
mayf
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