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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 05:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Orion ZyGarian
I say we should actually get some diesel passenger cars. What are your choices? Um, the Passat, some Mercedes....and...what else? Whatever...

I'm 100% for hydrogen combustion engines. Octane rating of 130?! Far more BTUs compared to fossil fuels?! Plus it shuts up the extremists since after it has been processed, it is 100% safe for the environment....frankly, as long as I can retrofit my current day gasoline powered engine to run off of hydrogen...I really dont care hardly at all what it takes to make it work...

That being said, because of the much higher octane rating and BTU capacity, incredibly small lightweight engines would make scary high power in comparison and thus possibly phase out anything with more than 6 cylinders, and 6 would be quite the handful...let alone forced induction.

As I said, if I could get my I6 turbo to run off of hydrogen completely and efficiently, I'll be thrilled
and with hydrogen you'd get less than half the gas mileage and wont be able to find a place to fill up.

sure hydrogen would be great, but its easily 20-30 years away from now
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