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To: DavesM who wrote (251964)	5/1/2002 12:20:55 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I had to do some lookup and conversions, and here is what I came up with. Gasoline is 16% hydrogen by weight. Gasoline weighs about 6 lbs. per gallon, therefore it contains .96 lb. of hydrogen per gallon. Liquid hydrogen is 70 grams per liter, or .584 lb. per gallon. Gasoline wins easily, but the kicker is that it takes energy to reform the gasoline to get the hydrogen from it to use in fuel cells, and there is still CO2 as a byproduct. The ideal is to store pure hydrogen on board, and IMO the best way to do that is with hydrides. Imagine zero pollution vehicles in the not too distant future. They are coming despite the fifties mentality of some people who are standing in the way. Del Del