DaAi HeadLines 20100630 Auto makers look for a new way
September 10, 2010 by admin
Filed under Automakers
At this year’s Shanghai World Expo, the entire site has been equipped with more than 1000 vehicles, which run on alternative energy sources to petroleum. In the final installment of our series of reports from the World Fair, we take a closer look at the future of transportation, on show in Shanghai. –Oil will run out by 2100– Oil reserves will be exhausted before this century ends – and with the world’s dependence on petroleum products, that’s a scary thought. Take transportation: how would people get around? Yet automotive emissions are the greatest contributor to greenhouse gases. Thus, at the Shanghai Expo, gas-powered cars have been banned, in favor of these new vehicles. –What can we do?– If we want to continue in our current comfortable lifestyle, other fuels must be discovered. One candidate is Hydrogen, which fuels this vehicle. In any Junior High textbook, one studies the electrolysis of water, dividing the molecule H20 into pure hydrogen and oxygen. We also learn that batteries operate on the reverse of that process, fusing oxygen and hydrogen to produce electricity and water. It’s renewable, no burning is involved, and no greenhouse gases are produced. Nanqi Specialized Vehicles engineer, Fan Qiyao :” It uses hydrogen and oxygen to create a chemical reaction that produces extremely pure water. This sort of vehicle is probably the most environmentally conservative sort there is.” –Clean, efficient, and quiet– Hydrogen-powered vehicles are extremely clean …