New energy economy emerges from lab
Sunday, November 20, 2005
"Plenty of experimental diesel and gas engines still run inside the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories, with the lab's signature lasers measuring fuel mixing, burn efficiencies and more. But more and more, scientists are turning to work on hydrogen engines, fuel cells and biofuels.Instead of gasoline, the engine burns an invisible compressed gas, hydrogen, with virtually zero air emissions. The engine gets better efficiency than a gasoline engine, White said, and a hydrogen-burning car is likely to be cheaper and longer lasting than a hydrogen fuel-cell car. "You can do it a lot cheaper than a fuel cell. You don't have to have this renaissance of revolutionary technologies," he said." Source: insidebayarea.com
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