Thread: Full Electric LDV ute

Originally Posted by tamamutu

https://www.nanoflowcell.com/info-ce...ound-the-world


This stuff looks exciting

Indeed.

I have said many many times that while I like EVs, they ware not the solution to our woes. Their great advantage is their efficiency in converting the stored energy into motion, but their biggest issue is fuel capacity. I also stated to more people than I care to remember that we have not yet found the solution to replacing ICE but EV were not it. This concept is a perfect example of what I mean. This is a potential solution that we had not thought of. It is another step towards the future solutions to our issues. And there will be many different solutions as no one solution will work for everyone.

I am trying to find an article I saw a few years back where a guy had worked out how to get Hydrogen and oxygen from water, mix it with carbon from the atmosphere and make hydrocarbon fuel that was carbon negative (More carbon was pulled from the air than was released back into it during consumption) . The really interesting part of his concept was that
-it worked in normal ICE vehicles with minor tuning so you did not have to replace every motor in the worlds fleet.
-It used existing fuel distribution logistics (Tankers and fuel stations, bowsers etc)
-It could be made anywhere that there was a supply of water, and electricity to make it. Thus removing the need for large ships carrying it around the world- eliminates chance of oil spill disasters etc and allows those ships to be converted into container shipping.

He had proof of concept but was unable to scale up to large volume production with the technology he had developed at that stage. I do not know what happened to it. Whether it succeeded (doubtful) or failed. But again it is an example of the fact that the solution has simply not yet been found. It is there, we just need to work it out....