[Vo]:Racing Towards Very Different Hydrogen Futures

2013-05-26 Thread Harry Veeder 
Racing Towards Very Different Hydrogen Futures

Yet, while Aston Martin and the Rapide S were preparing to make history
in Germany, south of the Alps in Ferrara, Italy, just below a bend in the
River Po, in a nondescript industrial park, a potentially far more historic
test of hydrogen technology took place in March of this year. 

http://www.evworld.com/focus.cfm?cid=147


Harry

Re: [Vo]:Racing Towards Very Different Hydrogen Futures

2013-05-26 Thread Andrew 
I'm not very versed in the engineering of heat engines versus electrical 
generators. If you want to use a heat source like the E-Cat (assuming it's as 
advertised with COP  1) for powering a drive train in a car, is it necessary 
to go through an electrical conversion and use electric motors; is it more 
efficient to go directly to a heat engine? 

Andrew
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  Racing Towards Very Different Hydrogen Futures

  Yet, while Aston Martin and the Rapide S were preparing to make history in 
Germany, south of the Alps in Ferrara, Italy, just below a bend in the River 
Po, in a nondescript industrial park, a potentially far more historic test of 
hydrogen technology took place in March of this year. 

  http://www.evworld.com/focus.cfm?cid=147


  Harry

Re: [Vo]:Racing Towards Very Different Hydrogen Futures

2013-05-26 Thread mixent 
In reply to  Andrew's message of Sun, 26 May 2013 13:21:16 -0700:
Hi,
[snip]
I'm not very versed in the engineering of heat engines versus electrical 
generators. If you want to use a heat source like the E-Cat (assuming it's as 
advertised with COP  1) for powering a drive train in a car, is it necessary 
to go through an electrical conversion and use electric motors; is it more 
efficient to go directly to a heat engine? 

Since the first step in generating electric power is usually the conversion to
mechanical energy anyway, the answer is usually going to be yes. An exception
might be found, if it turns out to be possible to convert the primary power
source directly into electrical energy without first producing heat.
e.g. look at the work of Paul Brown  Alfred Hubbard.
Regards,

Robin van Spaandonk

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