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« on: 30/05/2007 00:40:09 »
If the majority of carswere powered by hydrogen, their exhaust emissions would be water. Would this lead to wetter roads? and possibly more accidents due to wet road conditions?
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« Reply #1 on: 30/05/2007 01:27:58 »
I doubt you would get liquid water on the roads, but you could get more mist and fog.  I would expect that you are likely to have the water leaving the exhaust at too high a temperature to condense into water immediately upon leaving the exhaust.
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« Reply #2 on: 31/05/2007 15:08:55 »
Yes you would need to burn an immense amount of hydrogen to compare to the amount of water put into the air on a warm day by evaporation.
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    « Reply #3 on: 03/06/2007 00:21:00 »
    Why are people so chuffed with hydrogen powered transport?
    Hydrogen is not an 'energy resource'; you can't find it anywhere except chemically combined with something else ( as water, for instance).
    You still have to make it using some other energy source. The only good thing about hydrogen (and it IS a good thing) is that it produces very low LOCAL pollution. Someone else, somewhere else, already produced the bad pollution..
    There's nothing for it but to walk everywhere, folks.
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    « Reply #4 on: 03/06/2007 01:01:50 »
    There are cars that run on compressed air and don't 'burn' anything at all ;)
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