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Honda Launches New Hydrogen Car

  • 16-06-2008 11:28PM
    #1
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭


    There have been a few prototype models around, but could this be the answer to the oil price problem in the future ? and the fcuk up they made on growing badly needed food for biofuels ?

    http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

    Mods move to motors if applicable ?


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  • #2
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,241 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Only glanced at it, but would there not be an issue with the huge hydrogen tank in the back of the car? Hydrogens not the safest of gases if I remember correctly

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #3
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    It would certainly make for some interesting car crashes!


  • #4
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Only glanced at it, but would there not be an issue with the huge hydrogen tank in the back of the car? Hydrogens not the safest of gases if I remember correctly

    Well I dunno ? When I think of Hydrogen I always think of the Hindenburg Airship blowing up, but I saw a documentary lately that showed they were using Powdered Aluminum in the silver paint on the skin of that airship, and that it had the same qualities as gunpowder, apparently, which made it flare up so quickly. They were playing down the danger of the Hydrogen in that instance.

    I wonder is it any more volatile than petrol if sealed in a proper tank ?
    Dave! wrote: »
    It would certainly make for some interesting car crashes!

    Yeah it sure would :)


  • #5
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,241 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    marcsignal wrote: »
    Well I dunno ? When I think of Hydrogen I always think of the Hindenburg Airship blowing up, but I saw a documentary lately that showed they were using Powdered Aluminum in the silver paint on the skin of that airship, and that it had the same qualities as gunpowder, apparently, which made it flare up so quickly. They were playing down the danger of the Hydrogen in that instance.
    Well the main reason they switched to helium is hydrogen was dangerous, as far as I know. I'm sure somebody out there knows for sure though

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #6
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Well the main reason they switched to helium is hydrogen was dangerous, as far as I know. I'm sure somebody out there knows for sure though

    True, I guess if they ever become popular, ASH wont have to worry about anyone smoking in their cars, or tossing fag ends out the window :D

    I'd love to see them take off (not in the literal sense) it would be a real kick in the goolies for the Oil Barons, and with only water coming out of the exhaust, it looks like everybody wins :)


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  • #7
    jimmycrackcorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,406 ✭✭✭✭jimmycrackcorm


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    Only glanced at it, but would there not be an issue with the huge hydrogen tank in the back of the car? Hydrogens not the safest of gases if I remember correctly

    Better to have a tank with a flammable liquid in the car instead.


  • #8
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    All pure sh1te. Get a gas guzzler and drive it to fu*k. Get the car you want to get and forget about gimps that will tell you otherwise.


  • #9
    Seonad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭Seonad


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    All pure sh1te.

    It would be far cheaper jigsaw:pac:
    (considering unleaded is now around the 133.9 mark)


  • #10
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Seonad wrote: »
    It would be far cheaper jigsaw:pac:
    (considering unleaded is now around the 133.9 mark)

    Aw f**k tell me about it. I was skint and put in £5 sterling and it just took me from my house to YORE MA!!


  • #11
    Seonad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 171 ✭✭Seonad


    What a very economical car you muct have to get all the way from Belfast to Dublin on £5 sir.
    You're welcome to her...she keeps the shotgun under the bed though so watch out:D


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  • #12
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    I was skint and put in £5 sterling

    No wonder you're cycling to Emers house.


  • #13
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Seonad wrote: »
    What a very economical car you muct have to get all the way from Belfast to Dublin on £5 sir.
    You're welcome to her...she keeps the shotgun under the bed though so watch out:D
    He has to dump the car a few miles away and cycles the rest of the way to the target.


  • #14
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Rb wrote: »
    He has to dump the car a few miles away and cycles the rest of the way to the target.

    Can I say what a privilege it is to be the Daniel Laruso to your Mr Miagi. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have even known about the bike thing. I have so much to be thankful to your for. Can we meet some time for a latte? I'd like to pay my debt of gratitude.

    :D:D:D:D

    ps. thread over long ago, having some craic so don't take the nick


  • #15
    Futurism
    Closed Accounts Posts: 553 ✭✭✭Futurism


    Rb wrote: »
    He has to dump the car a few miles away and cycles the rest of the way to the target.

    You're having a field day.


  • #16
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Futurism wrote: »
    You're having a field day.

    Just a normal day I think, of messageboard crimefighting. Good work that someone has to do.


  • #17
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    Can I say what a privilege it is to be the Daniel Laruso to your Mr Miagi. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have even known about the bike thing.

    :rolleyes: No need to implicate anyone else in your filthy crimes, Jigsaw, we all know you've played the bike thing long before we met.

    Jigsaw wrote:
    ps. thread over long ago, having some craic so don't take the nick

    That thread is far from over, just because it isn't in public view at the moment, does not mean its spirit isn't still alive here on Boards.


  • #18
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Rb wrote: »
    :rolleyes: No need to implicate anyone else in your filthy crimes, Jigsaw, we all know you've played the bike thing long before we met.




    That thread is far from over, just because it isn't in public view at the moment, does not mean its spirit isn't still alive here on Boards.

    You are a more experienced Boardsie than me clearly. Do you have influence to have my thread of shame revealed once more for the amusement of the masses? I certainly hope not. I don't think you have but I may be wrong.


  • #19
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


  • #20
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Mr Crystal wrote: »
    This legendary thread really does need to be returned. I only got to see the start and now I need to know what the rest said!
    Posted via Mobile Device

    Talk with a bit of sense man!! There was nothing of interest I tell you. Pure urban myth. Thread was pish.


  • #21
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


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  • #22
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    You are a more experienced Boardsie than me clearly. Do you have influence to have my thread of shame revealed once more for the amusement of the masses? I certainly hope not. I don't think you have but I may be wrong.

    You see, you're wrong on one very major point. It's not your thread, once you hit that submit button it becomes the property of Boards.ie and the site can do whatever it likes with it.


  • #23
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Mr Crystal wrote: »
    This legendary thread really does need to be returned. I only got to see the start and now I need to know what the rest said!
    Posted via Mobile Device
    It was probably the best thread of 2008 so far, a clear nominee for thread of the year. A bit of a clipping here and there and it could be in the right shape to be brought back into the public eye.


  • #24
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    marcsignal wrote: »
    There have been a few prototype models around, but could this be the answer to the oil price problem in the future ? and the fcuk up they made on growing badly needed food for biofuels ?

    http://automobiles.honda.com/fcx-clarity/

    Mods move to motors if applicable ?
    It's great to see things moving in the right direction, and quite quickly too.


  • #25
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Rb wrote: »
    You see, you're wrong on one very major point. It's not your thread, once you hit that submit button it becomes the property of Boards.ie and the site can do whatever it likes with it.

    I know the score. The thread in question could be up in its entirety and I can do nothing about it. I just hope that it won't be be, because it makes me look like a tw@t. I think that is a perfectly reasonable conclusion to reach, don't you?


  • #26
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    I'm quite happy for it to be thread of the year if I earn life changing money as a result. But I don't think that wil happen.


  • #27
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    I know the score. The thread in question could be up in its entirety and I can do nothing about it. I just hope that it won't be be, because it makes me look like a tw@t. I think that is a perfectly reasonable conclusion to reach, don't you?
    It's a funny thread, everyone had a laugh reading/writing in it and the only person who took it seriously was yourself. Lighten up.

    If anything has damaged your image around here, it's been your reaction to it tbh. Not on the night itself but the following day.


  • #28
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


  • #29
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Rb wrote: »
    It's a funny thread, everyone had a laugh reading/writing in it and the only person who took it seriously was yourself. Lighten up.

    If anything has damaged your image around here, it's been your reaction to it tbh. Not on the night itself but the following day.

    Hey man don't get me wrong, I'm not cranky etc. I didn't think my image was damaged at all. I just knw that I posted crap i would not have otherwise have done.

    Honestly I am not a kiljoy by any mreans.


  • #30
    Jigsaw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    Mr Crystal wrote: »
    They won't put it up without your consent from what I've read. Fair enough it may make you look like a twat jigsaw but if it goes up people will be laughing with you about it in a few weeks. At the moment people are wondering what's in the thread due to commotion. Maybe you should consider rising above what everyone thinks and allow a thread that is 'one of the best of 2008' back into the public for everyone else to enjoy? :)

    Posted via Mobile Device

    Would you rise above something that makes you look like a knob? If so, biggerman than I.

    Although part of me feels like, why give a f**king f*k.


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  • #31
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    Honestly I am not a kiljoy by any mreans.

    Prove it!


  • #32
    eVeNtInE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭eVeNtInE


    This post has been deleted.


  • #33
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,977 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Rb wrote: »
    No wonder you're cycling to Emers house.
    Rb wrote: »
    He has to dump the car a few miles away and cycles the rest of the way to the target.

    :D PMSL
    Jigsaw wrote: »
    Although part of me feels like, why give a f**king f*k.

    Exactly. Once people have seen it and read it they'll move on. Until then its spirit is alive and well. Let it come back, take a slaggin for a few days then it'll disappear like every other thread.


  • #34
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭s8n


    Jigsaw wrote: »
    Can I say what a privilege it is to be the Daniel Laruso to your Mr Miagi. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't have even known about the bike thing. I have so much to be thankful to your for. Can we meet some time for a latte? I'd like to pay my debt of gratitude.

    :D:D:D:D

    ps. thread over long ago, having some craic so don't take the nick

    What a muppet you truly are


  • #35
    cabrwab
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭cabrwab


    Jigsaw for thread "creator" of the year! Seriously well done made my friday.
    We have all done really stupid things while being under the influence of the alco!

    But back onto this Thread the hydrogen car has being around the reason it hasn't being released yet is because they have not invented a way of getting it into the car yet, hydrogen stations like petrol stations, and also the long term storage is a problem too! But id say they haven't perfected the car/tank in it either.

    Poor ol'saudi's must be s****ing themselves!
    I hate to admit it but GM have being playing around with this for quite awhile.
    Plus as the car will only produce water out the exhaust you could save the 3rd world, no more dangerous drinking water, no more drought!


  • #36
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,165 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    s8n wrote: »
    What a muppet you truly are
    Watch it.

    Everyone else stay to the topic please.


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  • #37
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,261 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Ah stuff the car! What we really need is the government to buy however many trampolines are needed to cover existing roads. It'd take you no time at all to get from A to B. Any practical problems can be easily ironed out e.g. crossroads.


  • #38
    Glowing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,851 ✭✭✭Glowing


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Ah stuff the car! What we really need is the government to buy however many trampolines are needed to cover existing roads. It'd take you no time at all to get from A to B. Any practical problems can be easily ironed out e.g. crossroads.

    A lovely practical solution - I like it :D


  • #39
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    I missed all that controversy on the jigsaw thread thing. I think it should be reopened and moved to the mods forum so I can have a squiz......


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