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An alternative source for biofuel

This has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. To date, while perhaps well intentioned Biofuels have not been a realistic option, they require too much land and too many resources to produce too little fuel, not to mention the overall question of burning food in our cars.

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[budhaboy.livejournal.com]

Excellent question.

I first heard of them back in the eighties by a grandfather as well. Apparently, the issue is with the fuel cell technology not being quite ready for prime time, and hence VERY expensive.

Remarkably, the Mythbusters a year or so ago had an episode where they were dicking around with using Hydrogen to run an old Olds Cutlas with no modifications what so ever. They were shocked, and giggling like school girls, until they had a carb backfire that nearly took Jamies eyebrows...

There are problems with hydrogen as a fuel source:

1) The molecuels are so tiny, they are very hard to contain.
2) Metal in the presence of Hydrogen causes it to become brittle (for reasons I'm not too clear on).

Check out this wikipedia article on the hydrogen economy