Gas prices have stabilized somewhat in recent weeks and a bit immersed.
That's great news for folks who have long commutes, or who operate vehicle fleets.
Most of us seem to relax after lowering gas prices a cent or so, if only because it means that, at least not on the rise.
In doing so we lose sight of the fact that gas is still really expensive.
Current national average price of $ 3 gas.
94 a gallon and while that is somewhat better than the $4.
07 one gallons one months, we quickly forget that a year ago, gasoline was $ 2.
89 at the pump.
This is an increase of 27% in price.
Can you imagine if other things in your life were to go up 27%? Most people exist with less than a 10% margin between their income and their bills.
An increase of this size would take too much, most people are hopelessly in the red.
So what are we going to do about it?
Well, to start with, we know that it's energy in general that is becoming more expensive.
While there are certainly people stood to benefit from this growth is the main reason that the more industrialized countries and are driving a car.
China and India represent 1/3 of the world's population and their booming auto industry is creating unheard of demand for gasoline.
In addition, the most accessible fuel, oil and gas reserves disappeared and is no longer cost money and energy in the coal and other fuels for heating have.
Since many power plants run on oil, this brings the price of all fuels up.
This is unfortunate downside risks for world economy.
One of the fuels that is being heralded as a potential savior is hydrogen.
It is the most abundant element in the universe, and is abundant on Earth.
It's one of the core components of water, H20.
Through a process known as electrolysis, water and made it as a fuel, hydrogen can be extracted.
The byproduct of this process is oxygen, not a bad thing to have a refinery spit out at all.
Many automobile manufacturers have recognized hydrogen as an energy source promising vehicles like the BMW Hydrogen 7, Honda FCX Clarity and the products were.
While they are currently only available in limited numbers and markets where there are hydrogen fuel stations, they are out there and it is a positive step for the economy and the world in general as their only exhaust is water vapor.
BMW Hydrogen 7 Car uses a motor of a car fairly regular.
The engines that our car's use are called Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) and essentially they simply burn something inside of themselves.
An example of an external combustion engine is a steam engine, where the fire is out of the engine.
While these engines have been refined to burn petroleum based fuels, they are capable of running on many other fuels, the only concern being that some fuels are more corrosive, or may be a solvent to some of the elements of the car's engines.
Fortunately, the hydrogen is not corrosive, and none of the components of a machine it will dissolve.
In fact with not a lot of alteration, most car engines could run 100% on hydrogen.
As there is enough hydrogen to run, cars? Well, it would not simply have.
It's not that you couldn't, but the cost of getting a fuel tank for your car that could safely store that amount of hydrogen is somewhat prohibitive.
So there is alternative that can help? Interestingly, there is.
The engine in your car would be perfectly happy to get a mixture of Hydrogen and gasoline.
Indeed hydrogen , additional oxygen produced by electrolysis actually help to burn the fuel better.
Some people get as much as a 42% increase in their mileage by simply adding a moderate amount of hydrogen to their car's engine.
This is the same pay to $ 2.
20 a gallon for gasoline.
So you ask how this is done? The process is a device that can be installed under the hood of your car reached use of electricity from your car alternator to power an electrolyzer that produces hydrogen on the fly if needed.
This means that there is no storage of hydrogen and no issues with having to find a gas station that sells hydrogen as there are less than 200 worldwide.
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