Ford is developing hydrogen combustion engines along with fuel cells.
The technology isn't new-a patent for a hydrogen internal combustion engine was issued in 1928, and a 20hp fuel-cell tractor was demonstrated in the late 1950s.
It's powered by a hydrogen internal combustion engine that turns a 44-kilowatt electric generator that runs eight propellers and whatever communications equipment is loaded on board.
And we are currently developing a wide range of advanced technology vehicles, including more hybrids, more diesel engines, hydrogen internal combustion engines and even fuel cells later on down the road.
There is, however, an alternative: burn the hydrogen in a conventional internal-combustion engine.
Likewise, BMW withdrew its own test fleet of 100 cars with internal-combustion engines modified to run on hydrogen.
Oh, and did you know that you can run a standard internal combustion engined car, with a very little tweaking, on that very hydrogen?
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These devices, which work by combining hydrogen with oxygen from the air to produce electricity, are popular candidates to replace internal-combustion engines in road vehicles.
These, he says, are 1, 500 times better than existing sensors at detecting hydrogen. (The gas combines with the tubes, changing their electrical properties.) Hydrogen detection is used to help control certain processes in industrial food production, for tweaking fuel combustion in car engines, and in monitoring certain bacterial infections.
The combustion is slow and rich, using just enough oxygen to bust apart the diesel molecules into hydrogen and carbon monoxide without burning off the diesel entirely.
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