Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel driven

JonesG - forgive me my scepticism but you've a 'readily available material' to seperate hydrogen from water but it's mainly found in Oz, Turkey and India. Que.1. This secret "Material Z" once it is 'in demand' as an energy source will increase in price significantly based on the demand won't it - it won't be so cheap once it's in demand, probably by a mulitple of 5 to 10 especially if only 3 countries have a stranglehold on supply (oil is produced in nearly 100 countries) right? Next the power generation can be "fitted in a 20ft container" and plugged into existing power stations. Mmmm?! Que.2. So the huge seperation of water to hydrogen and mixing with your Material.Z doesn't happen inside this 20ft container does it? You cannot seperate water, mix the hydrogen with M.Z in commercial quanities and release the power all from a 20ft container! You're cannot include the refining process in your 20ft. So Que.3. How big is the refinery and how do you plan to move it in large enough quantities to your 20ft container.. in trucks? Lastly your process involves 'dismantling water'. Water is not a scarce resource as global hysterics purport. But if you're consuming large quantites of water (ie. seperating the "H" in H2O and losing H2O) in big commercial quantities to power worldwide power stations (and not replenishing water) you're doing what Ethanol is to corn prices, namely driving up water prices! So Que.4. How much water is destroyed to power your your 20ft container engine and run a typical power station? Finally if you triple your M.Z price, increase water price by say 30% and count all the waste and refining costs... Que.5. what is the end cost per kilowat of energy?

JonesG - Hydrogen = 30,000 BTUs, Gasoline = 125,000 BTUs, Diesel = 130,000 BTUs (per gallon).... Producing hydrogen has a high energy cost. Compressing hydrogen gas into a 'realistically' confined area has another large energy cost. Transporting, storing and distributing a gaseous fuel as opposed to a liquid raises big problems. Finally it will cost $billions to develop hydrogen fuel cells that can match the performance of today's gasoline engines. So even if you can solve all these hydrogen problems improvements to current petrol and diesel cars are more than 100 times cheaper than persuing hydrogen cars (which Mercedes has been doing without success for decades) at reducing air pollution.

Hang on a minute. You combine hydrogen with co2 from the atmosphere to make methanol, and someone thinks thats efficient. You need a cheap, clean energy source to split hydrogen from sea water. Thats actually available now and its cheap and very clean. If Lotus want to know they can just ask and we can talk. But then you take your hydrogen through another process or 3 or 4 to make Methanol. Anyone figure the flaw here. Because it is blindingly obvious. You already have your energy source in the hydrogen. Before Lotus go, but how do you store the hydrogen and what is the cost of the storage system for vehicles?, again just ask boys because someone in the UK is already working on that and may just have the answer. Also lets forget ethanol if its not made from replaceable trees. Because if its made from either an human or animal food product and is forcing up prices world wide for such foodstuffs its not going to be acceptable for much longer.