Re: Hydrogen IS fuel

Peter Lowrie wrote: 
Combustion is defined by only three parameters, namely "fuel", "Oxidiser"
and "Heat". Commonly known as the combustion triangle.

Clearly Oxygen does not burn and is therefore not a fuel but is the oxidiser
that provides the fuel with a means to burn.

Heat does not burn, is not a fuel and is the product of the burning of a
fuel.

Ipso facto Hydrogen is a fuel. To relegate it to the condition of an "energy
carrier" is a mistaken semantical contrivance.

Furthermore, nothing is "consumed" in the oxidisation of Hydrogen. The
original atoms are still there but now they're in a molecule that has taken
part in a chemical reaction.

On a humorous note...Perfectly proportioned Hydrogen and Oxygen in it's
liquid compressed state (liquid water gas) may be the safest fuel known
inasmuch as it will put out a fire, something none of the other liquid
fuels will do :-)

Your comments...


Not even wrong.

A fuel is a substance that is capable of adding NET energy to the on-the-books economy.

Hyerogen does not even come remotely close.


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