Side-stepping the Hydrogen Economy

Why produce hydrogen for the hydrogen economy and create just as big a greenhouse problem in the process when you can avoid it all together by producing hydrogen on-site with no emmissions? These Israeli engineers have devised a way to derive hydrogen for combustion in a vehicle from coils of metal.

The metal is heated with steam, which causes it to turn into an oxide, which frees the hydrogen for combustion.

Beside the obvious advantages of the system, such as the inexpensive and abundant fuel, the production of Hydrogen on-the-go and the zero emission engine, the system is also more efficient than other Hydrogen solutions. The main reason for this is the improved usage of heat (steam) inside the system that brings that overall performance level of the vehicle to that of a conventional car. In an interview, Professor Yogev told IsraCast that a car based on Engineuity’s system will be able to travel about the same distance between refueling as an equivalent conventional car.

The question I would like answered is, how do you heat the steam in the first place? Sounds like a perpetual motion machine to me, but we’ll see. Also, you’ll need an awful lot of those metal coils…