Hydrogen Vehicle Generates Its Own Fuel 662
An anonymous reader writes "Our friends at The Arizona Republic have the scoop: 'The truck is hydrogen-powered and creates its own fuel from solar energy and water, a technical feat that rivals the advanced technology being researched by major auto companies and universities. The four-cylinder engine is tuned to run on hydrogen, which is produced by a hand-built electrolysis system mounted in the bed.' You can also help this project."
i want one! (Score:5, Funny)
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop! (Score:4, Funny)
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Well... (Score:5, Funny)
BC
Cool (Score:4, Funny)
Sure it would look strange, a car with a lamp mounted on the roof to shine down towards the roof surface, but think of the possibilities, we may never have to stop for gas ever again!
Duh! the answer is obvious (Score:5, Funny)
Problem solved.
Re:It's near performance already (Score:5, Funny)
The power from bicycles comes from humans eating food and producing poop. The food production takes an unbelievably large amount of energy intensive fossil fuel burning machinery to produce, and quite a bit of value-add from packaging, marketing, etc. (grin).
Likewise, the 'CLEAN ENERGY' aspect of this ignores POOP. Humans that bicycle would use more energy and create more Poop. This would in turn create proportionately more feces, which would have to be processed in an energy intensive sewage treatment plant.
Manufacturing the bicycles, paving for the roads suitably, etc. is very inefficient and Anti-Green (shall we say RED?). The most GREEN thing we can do is stop emitting greenhouse gasses ("farts"), poop ("feces"), and consuming valuable resources by eating things. I recommend all humans should hold their breath until they die and save the planet.
SATIRE ALERT! The above is Satire. Any correspondence between this and a valid opinion would be in the direct opposite direction, ideologically speaking.
Dying isn't green (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously then, dying isn't green. And since you suggested it, I can tell that you're an evil RED spy masquerading as a GREEN supporter.:-)
What's the big deal? (Score:3, Funny)
Big whoop.
Re:Hydrogen to Methane Converter? (Score:3, Funny)
Other methods include chopping the cows into small pieces, drying out those pieces, then placing them all over the car. Surely someone will move the car, noone wants to see that.
Some of those crazy farmer folks would say - why not use a bus? I don't know, I never thought of planting grass on busses roofs before, but now to think about it. We will need a method of putting the cow on the roof of the bus. Once it's there plugging a tube up the cows ass is just a small technical problem.
Re:It's near performance already (Score:4, Funny)
Or we could capture and burn the farts and poop. Perhaps the turbo button could be shaped like a toilet flush lever.
Yes Ma'am, this car uses solar power to produce hydrogen. But it will also run on fossil fuels and feces. Notice the plush padding around the fecal collection bin in the drivers seat and the lighted mirror on the sun shade? Yes Ma'am, we do have one in brown.
reduction in successful suicides? (Score:2, Funny)
What is sad is that people will probably still try with those cars that do not produce anything you could asphyxiate on. I realize if you got into a car that produced something other than oxygen, you could still kill yourself when the amount of oxygen drops below a certain point, but what if...
Re:It's near performance already (Score:5, Funny)
I could not agree more! Save the planet! Kill yourself!
http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/ [churchofeuthanasia.org]
Out of water? (Score:3, Funny)
I'd piss on a sparkplug if I thought it'd do any good
Re:Ok, It's Satire, But.. (Score:2, Funny)
I can see the next big thing already... fat-powered cars. Hop in, dump in a bucket o' lard, drive for miles.
How's that for alternative energy sources?
Big deal.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Duh! the answer is obvious (Score:3, Funny)
Why? Just sleep in the shade until it's sunny enough, and/or you think you're recharged.
Learned that from my dog -- he can't drive worth a shit (I think the wind speed affects either his vision or concentration when his head out the window), but he does has a firm grasp of energy states.
If water is the byproduct of hydrogen.. wouldnt.. (Score:1, Funny)
i do believe I am trams!