Tuesday, August 09, 2005

The coolest technology ever

Found this article at IGN, which prompted me to explore the company's site further to learn more about this technology. It sounds almost too good to be true.



These are hydrogen powered motorbikes, called ENVs. They emit only water. The CORE technology that powers them has no moving parts, so it's nearly maintenance free. They go 100 miles before a recharge that takes 5 minutes. They are virtually silent.

Quick, someone point out a glaring flaw so I can come down off of this cloud.

6 comments:

Jonathan said...

Here's a glaring flaw: it looks like a kiddie bicycle sold at Toys R Us.

You know those ones with crappy plastic cladding to make them look like a motorcycle for five-year-olds that I thought were cool till I was ten?

Anonymous said...

Jonathan, it's not that ugly.
Here's two more glaring flaws:
1. Where exactly does the water come out. I mean, are we talking about spewing as much water as a jetski does, or just a pleasant spray?
2. Remember, this may have a top speed of 5 MPH.

Anonymous said...

HHO Technology is better and it only runs using water as its fuel! Look it up, it's way better

Anonymous said...

Here's an obvious flaw that no one thinks about when it comes to hydrogen as a fuel. Where does the H2 come from? The most common method used involves natural gas, which results in hydrocarbons being emitted into the atmosphere. The second most common method is hydrolysis, which uses electricity to break the bond between hydrogen and oxygen. Electricity, which is created by burning fossil fuels.

Anonymous said...

Here's an obvious flaw that no one thinks about when it comes to hydrogen as a fuel. Where does the H2 come from? The most common method used involves natural gas, which results in hydrocarbons being emitted into the atmosphere. The second most common method is hydrolysis, which uses electricity to break the bond between hydrogen and oxygen. Electricity, which is created by burning fossil fuels.

Anonymous said...

Here's probably the biggest flaw!
Use of hydrogen gas, and even the production of it, invariably causes some leakage of the gas. In fact it's practically impossible to keep hydrogen gas contained as it is the smallest molecule possible; this is why it is the first element in the periodic table.

Just think of a balloon left for a long time. The air slowly escapes through the balloon. Hydrogen is much better at escaping than any of the elements of air.

With hydrogen being the smallest molecule and first in the periodic table, it inherits one other very significant property: It's the lightest molecule too.

So when our hydrogen escapes, as it will, and when it is accidentally released into the atmosphere as it also certainly will be (in refuelling etc), the hydrogen naturally rises straight through the atmosphere.

Being lighter than anything else, it doesn't stop until it is floating on top of the atmosphere. Once it's up there, it can easily be blown away off of the atmosphere by a multitute of causes. Stellar winds, high speed particles, etc all cause this hydrogen to go floating off into space. It never comes back.

Our planet's water supply is finite. Admitedly we have lots of water, but we really want to keep it that way. With water being made up of two parts oxygen to one part hydrogen, our water supply is diminished every time hydrogen is lost from on top of our atmosphere.

There are enough natural causes of hydrogen escaping on this planet in the first instance without us adding to it.

If we had used hydrogen fuels in the same way we have used fossil fuels, we would have lost 10% of our planet's water supply by now.

Personally I prefer that our finite supply of hydrogen stays simply as our water supply instead of being the next big fuel.

I like to think that our generations to come will have as much water as we do.