A liquid Hydrogen car? Yes they can certainly put out the advertising hype.
I must agree with Uncle Al, should anything go wrong, such as a Hydrogen powered car collision, they could be one Big KaaaBoooom.
Should the hydrogen escape, while strapped in the confines of your car seat (most likely). Parts of your super frozen fingers, legs or arms would crack off your body like broken china, were you to be moved. All plastic fittings seats and belts and clothes will either break up, or stick to ones body, causing cold burns, at worst.
Its not a pleasant scenario. Two or three accidents would scare the public off hydrogen.
It would always have to be kept under pressure, and permanently vented where-ever it was stored.
Its an interesting Utopian article Amaranth, if only for items that are conveniently notmentioned Such as addition high cost of personal insurance, and the additional vehicle weight due to the steel pressure, and expansion tanks.
Ti's wonderful how they only mention Hydrogen production by water electrolysis. Unless the water is pure, the electrodes will soon clog, and become inefficient. The continuous compression and expansion of air plus distillation, as a method for Hydrogen production would surely last longer than water electrolysis. I'd rather drive a car using cold Clathrates dredged up from the Artic ocean than dangerous hydrogen.
Better still, why not an electric car that used a couple of low voltage metal conductor strips, stuck to the surface of the road, to pick up power?
