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Jun 6, 2005 | 06:27 AM

beatupford

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Hydrogen powered 300

In a quest for cleaner burning engines, the Hydrogen Engine Center has selected and built a specialty Ford 4.9l engine, which happens to be the world's first production ready hydrogen fueled engine. Because if its low power output, it is ideal for use in industrial aplications. Another 70 horepower or so and it'd be pretty darn close to the gas powered version in our trucks and vans. What a great start and who could have picked a better motor? Not to step on the fossil fuel and gas industry or nothing, but a hydrogen engine would clearly be a better engine than a gas engine. Once technologies mastermind hydrogen burning, once our oil reserves have been depleted, and once every gas station has commercially available hydrogen available; well i guess it wouldn't happen till then. These engines would burn cleaner, so the engines don't have to be equipped with pollution control devices, or even a computer. Just put a carb-o-hydro on er and hammer down! I bet these engines would last longer too, no carbon build up, and gas residues that contaminate lines, injectors and oil.

http://www.hydrogenenginecenter.com/HEC%20H2%20Engine%20Announcement.pdf

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Jun 6, 2005 | 10:19 AM

Roushians

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Whoa, is this for real? This is too cool!

Jun 6, 2005 | 01:21 PM

jenral

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Well if this is for real, that's awsome. But untill I see more news and do more research (I'll believe it when I see it). Nice to see the ol 4.9 being useful in new applications.

Jun 6, 2005 | 02:16 PM

pfogle

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I would think that with the extremely low atomic weight of the hydrogen that the molecules would be small enough to seep past the rings and cause issues in the crankcase.