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From: rob@osiris.UUCP (Robert St. Aardvarks)
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Subject: Re: perpetual motion(hydrogen burning cars)
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Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 14:13:46 EST
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>   A few years ago I read a very interesting article in Scientific American
> about the technology of hydrogen-burning cars.  The hydrogen was not to
> be stored in liquid form in pressurized and cooled tanks (too dangerous
> and too impractical) but rather as a hydride in a low-pressure room-temperature
> tank.  The technical problem to be overcome was finding a suitable material
> for the hydrogen to form a hydride with; i.e., a material that would be
> sufficiently inexpensive to produce, effective and environmentally safe.
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>   Of course, this research for a *practical* hydrogen-powered car was being
> supported entirely by those "ogre" companies that are so often blamed for
> suppressing innovations, etc. etc. etc.
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A few years ago I read an article in OMNI magazine about someone who had
a practical hydrogen powered car.  It was an informal, interview-styled
piece--there was a photograph of the inventor drinking a glass of "exhaust."
Apparently he has had some success in promoting the idea;  the Midwest
town he lives in has a postal fleet--some 100 vehicles--powered by these
engines.  The article said that soon a $1500 kit would be released to convert
gasoline powered engines to hydrogen.

The hydrogen was stored in some metallic hydride, which needed to be
charged every night, and was worth perhaps 100 miles range.

Sorry about the lack of details, but what do you expect from OMNI?

Rob St. Amant