Alternatives to Gasoline for Internal Combustion Engines

The hydrogen fuel cell has advantages over the internal combustion engine. ... Not as much horse power can be obtained from the fuel cell than with the internal combustion engine. Alternatives The internal combustion is dirty and inefficient and the hydrogen fuel cell is not the only alternative. ... We have the technology to make nal combustion engines and produce gasoline. ... The cost of an internal combustion engines and gas are relatively cheap, where as it is still expensive to make fuel cells an pure hydrogen. ...

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For nearly a century, vehicles have been powered by internal combustion engines, which operate by burning its fuel inside the engine. The most common internal combustion engine is gasoline powered. ... From a technological perspective, gasoline-powered internal combustion engines have limitations in terms of performance and fuel-efficiency. ... The need for a viable alternative to the internal combustion is pressing. ... The cost of a fuel cell is only ten times the cost of an internal combustion engine today and the size has been reduced greatly. ...

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Hydrogen is much more efficient and safer than the internal combustion engine. ... New legislations is slowly trying to make the switch from the internal combustion engine to the hydrogen fuel cell. ... Water, as everyone knows, is quite a harmless emission when you compare it to what is given off by an internal combustion engine. ... Problems If fuel cells have so many advantages over internal combustion engines, then what is the nation waiting for? ... It is five times cheaper to produce an internal combustion engine than it is to produce one using hydrogen fuel cells (Brooke, 200...

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"Hydrogen is the latest in a long line of alternative fuels considered by automakers: Electricity, methanol, and natural gas among them." ... (Porretto 3D) pollution produced from internal combustion engines powered by petroleum-based fuels. ... Presently, much effort has gone into researching hydrogen as an alternative fuel sources for automobiles. Not only is hydrogen the "cleanest fuel available" and creates "negligible emissions of air pollutants" when powering an internal combustion engine, but it has also been known to actually clean the air while acting as a fuel (Kushnir 12). ... Ma...

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This car uses a battery along with an internal combustion engine. ... This paper describes how fuel cell vehicles will reduce our dependence upon oil and help to eliminate the pollution caused by internal combustion engines. ... We must develop cars that have fewer emissions than internal combustion engines in order to save lives. ... When the price comes down to around $3,000 consumers will be much more willing because that is about the price of an internal combustion engine. ... ternal combustion engines. ...

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Hydrogen can be used to power cars, rail engines, airplanes, to produce electricity and heat. ... There is more hydrogen in gasoline than there is in liquid hydrogen. ... According to United States Alternative Fuels Data Center (2000, WWW) now, hydrogen is made using the following two methods. ... For example use of hydrogen, as a fuel for combustion engines looks very positive, there are still many problems to solve, but hydrogen would be probably the fuel of our cars in the future. One of the important benefits of hydrogen is that it can be used directly in an internal combustion engine very...

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All hybrid vehicles produced limit the amount of smog pollutant compared to standard internal combustion vehicles. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) combine the internal combustion engine of a conventional vehicle with the battery and electric motor of an electric vehicle, resulting in twice the fuel economy of conventional vehicles. ... For the most part, the fuel cell's only emission is water vapor, giving it potential as the cleanest hybrid power unit alternative. Efficient, quiet, and reliable, fuel cells are predicted to demonstrate energy conversion efficiencies up to 50%, relat...

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In France and Germany, all eyes where turned to the development of the internal-combustion engine (modern car). The first internal-combustion engine was designed by the Dutch scientist Christian Huygens in 1678 It was to have been fueled with gunpowder, but it was never built. About 1860 a French inventor named Etienne Lenoir built the first practical internal-combustion engine. ... The German engineer Gottlieb Daimler revolutionized the automobile industry by inventing the high-speed internal combustion motor. ... Another pioneer with the gasoline engine was the German engineer Karl Benz ...

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These cars have all the components of the electric cars plus an internal-combustion engine. ... While the internal-combustion engine of a conventional car has many moving parts, an electric motor has only a single rotating element. ... Also experts are looking at alternative sources for batteries. ... Vehicles that are powered by hydrogen will be 3 times as energy-efficient as compared to gasoline-burning internal combustion engines. ... Another alternative source for batteries contain thin sheets of plastic called proton-exchange membranes (PEMs). ...

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