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SEMA 2007: ROUSH P-51A Mustang set to establish road superiority {Autoblog}
Oct 30th 2007 11:00AM Yeah, the P-51D was the slick one. Still, of the myriad Mustang packages available, this one has a lot more character than most (the exception being the Bullitt, of course).
VIDEO: Run your car on saltwater? It could happen. Sorta. {Autoblog}
Sep 12th 2007 7:53PM Chris makes a good point about the energy required to do this... if anything, though, this seems to be a rather simple and effective (if not inherently efficient) method of separating hydrogen from water. If we use it simply as hydrogen production, we relieve the auto industry of direct petroleum reliance, and shift the burden to municipal power - which we can already gain outside of fossil fuels. I'm thinking nuclear...
Frankfurt Preview: Mitsubishi Concept-cX leaked {Autoblog}
Aug 28th 2007 2:05PM Looks like they took a lot of cues from the recent VW Scirocco concept.
Fuel of the future: Hydrogen at the corner gas mart {Autoblog}
Apr 30th 2007 10:50PM Chris, your statement was correct.
The point is that no matter what new technology we come up with, we'll never be able to get more energy out of something than we put in, or else we'd turn that around and put it right back in and have a cycle giving us an infinite source of energy. This would break the Law of Conservation of Energy... the high school physics bit Jim mentions.
I think more what you meant, however, is that electrolysis is particularly inefficient - it takes on hell of a lot more energy to split water than we get from burning the resulting hydrogen. A good argument for good old, non-CO2 producing nuclear power if I ever heard one.
