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A fuel cell is an electrochemical device. There is no combustion at all. Spec has stated that this car has a rotary engine, which is an internal combustion engine.
Something can't both be a fuel cell and a rotary engine. They're two incompatible terms.
A fuel cell is an electrochemical device. There is no combustion at all. Spec has stated that this car has a rotary engine, which is an internal combustion engine.
Something can't both be a fuel cell and a rotary engine. They're two incompatible terms.
I believe a fuel cell can be used to break off hydrogen forming hydrogen gas (instead of an electric current) and then the hydrogen can be combusted to power an engine.
That must be a new generation of fuel cells because normally the point of a fuel cell is to use hydrogen gas and react it into water without th ebang in between. Using hydrogen in a combustion engine has bno advantage over this, nor is a device that produces hydrogen out of another substance called a fuel cell.
I believe a fuel cell can be used to break off hydrogen forming hydrogen gas (instead of an electric current) and then the hydrogen can be combusted to power an engine.
What are you talking about? A fuel cell is a device which transforms chemical energy (in a hydrogen fuel cell this is the heat of reaction of 2H2 + O2) directly to electrical energy.
I honestly have no idea where you're getting the idea that a fuel cell is a source for hydrogen gas. In fact, a hydrogen fuel cell uses up hydrogen gas and converts it into water.
Originally posted by Ecthy
Using hydrogen in a combustion engine has bno advantage over this
Actually, it might. Converting the chemical energy directly into mechanical work may be more efficient than first generating electrical current and then running an electric motor.
Let me think, I've once seen a model where the overall energy balance was positive as in even after cracking some methane or whatever the car could still run on the leftover energy. So all you'd need would an ignition of some sort and then the energy would stem from the fuel cell reaction.
Basic condition: the 2 H2 + O2 --> 2 H2O would have to generate a lot more energy than whatever reaction in use to produce the hydrogen. Might work for a lot of basic substances. The lower the energy requirement for this cracking process, the more power is leftover for whatever mechanic use behind it.
However I think most applications use hydrogen in a tank. Alternative: a hydrogen supply network/infrastructure to avoid storing. Hydrogen drains in households like with electricity. Small tanks in cars and lots of service points to refuel. Easier to imagine in big sites for industrial use.
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