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In Reply to: I think hydrogen power only becomes practical posted by mhardy6647 on November 19, 2014 at 09:03:07:
The numbers I found were in Mega Joule per kilogram.Hydrogen 120MJ/kg
Gasoline 44.4MJ/kg
The numbers are effectively reversed if you use Joule per volume as liquid hydrogen is a lot less dense than gasoline.
Edits: 11/19/14
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- "energy density" - b.l.zeebub 10:13:53 11/19/14 (5)
- good point - mhardy6647 11:41:38 11/19/14 (0)
- Didn't do any calcs... - YRY 11:17:58 11/19/14 (3)
- 'constantly venting H2 gas' - mhardy6647 11:43:23 11/19/14 (2)
- You're mistaking H2 with SO2. ;-) * - b.l.zeebub 07:01:26 11/20/14 (1)
- actually more like CH4 (which is odorless) and H2S (which ain't) :-) (nt) - mhardy6647 13:33:38 11/20/14 (0)