"Howard Winter" writes:
>The trouble with Diesel is all the byproducts of burning 
>it - with Hydrogen the only exhaust is water, of course.  
>Maybe you were joking, but I'm fairly sure a Diesel fuel 
>cell would not be viable...

	When I have read articles on this subject, they mention a sort
of chemical reactor that extracts hydrogen from whatever fuel is
being used.  The hydrogen runs the fuel cell and then there's all
this muck you get from what's left.  My big question is Wouldn't that
be just as bad or worse than the smoke from conventional combustion?

	Assuming the chemical reactor extracts hydrogen, there is
still sulphur, carbon and no telling what else that was part of the
Diesel fuel.

	The same statements apply to gasoline and alcohols.  What do
you have left after extracting the hydrogen and what could you
do with it?

	There have been discussions at least in the press of using
various petroleum products and a chemical reactor device to extract
hydrogen to transition from petroleum-based fueling systems to some
method of directly using, storing and transporting hydrogen in the
future.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group
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