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T. Boone Pickens had it right when he said that Detroit should build more cars that could run on compressed natural gas. Every vehicle fueled by natural gas can run on hydrogen and most every vehicle on the road today can be retrofit to be fueled by compressed natural gas. For about $25,000 a compressed natural gas car can be bought off the self from Honda.

T. Boone has bought a company called Fuelmaker. Fuelmaker manufactures two appliances: one takes natural gas from the gas line into ones house and compresses it to the point that it is dense enough to fuel a compressed natural gas vehicle; the other takes water, splits it into oxygen and hydrogen, compresses the hydrogen to 5,000 pounds per square inch, and puts that into a tank. Tanks that hold 10,000 pounds per square inch stand up to everything but the AK- 47 test. The Honda should have a range of about 150 miles on that and if one needs to go further, it will run on gasoline too.

T. Boone has sunk billions into wind energy. He has the sustainable power to produce and process hydrogen from water. You can too if you put solar panels on your roof.

Because there is no carbon or sulfur in hydrogen, an internal combustion engine fueled by hydrogen will have crankcase oil that will never have to be changed, just topped off. The filter will have to be changed.

The dominant environmental problem of a hydrogen internal combustion process is that at temperatures above 700 degrees Celsius, atmospheric nitrogen and oxygen combine to form nitrous oxides, which are greenhouse gases. This problem can be controlled.

I have heard it said that a fleet of electric cars is impossible because there aren?t enough copper resources to manufacture it. The State of Oregon should be covering its? garages with Energy Conversion Devices? solar roofing and fueling the Compressed Natural Gas vehicles it already has off of Hydrogen.

All of the pieces are in place that we can do this and maybe a more efficient hydrogen vehicle will evolve out of it, perhaps based on the Axial Vector internal combustion engine. Let?s keep it simple.


Link to Fuelmaker: http://www.fuelmaker.com/Products/HydrogenRefueling/

Link to Energy Conversion Devices: http://www.ovonic.com/

Link to Axial Vector: http://www.axialvectorengine.com/

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