Energy Flashes: Fuel & Energy Alternatives

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March/April 1974
 
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"We've got a car that operates well on ammonia, " says Dr. Jeffery Hodgson, of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee, "but ammonia is getting to be as scarce as gasoline and it produces emissions that are difficult to control. Everyone talks about powering automobiles with hydrogen, but hauling around a lot of liquid hydrogen under pressure and refrigeration presents problems that no one has figured a way to handle. And you wouldn't want a car sitting in a garage with a hydrogen leak. Really, gasoline is just about the ideal fuel for the family automobile."

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