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- inactive, on 05/03/2009, -1/+10The majority of newer bikes do have catalytic converters. Also site your source for the whole 1 bike = 10 cars thing.
- hbyrne, on 05/02/2009, -0/+8Sweet. But which Christmas list is this going on? 2009 or 2015?
- jMichaelEdwards, on 06/14/2009, -2/+9trickle-down technology, that's how it works
- yerdaddy, on 05/02/2009, -6/+12It's unfortunate that vehicle manufacturers waste so much money on hyper-performance concept models that will Never see production. I understand that everyone needs something to wank to. I just don't understand why it has to be something practically useless.
Why not a 250 that people can afford? I guess something that is actually a real solution to serious problems isn't very sexy. Human fail. - paksman, on 05/03/2009, -0/+6WANT
- diggydougie, on 05/03/2009, -0/+6It's been proven that the Hindenburg gas went straight up harmlessly.
It was the flammable skin that caused the problem. - SSUK, on 05/03/2009, -0/+6Now one question remains, what part of the Megazord does this transform into?
- Digglits, on 05/03/2009, -1/+6Hate to say it but hydrogen is dead. I would say that the most sensible solutions lie in all electric and gas/electric motors. Electricity is already available everywhere but for hydrogen to be viable we would need a whole new infrastructure. Send this bike back to the drawing board.
- jerryjamesstone, on 05/03/2009, -1/+6This was done by a designer, not the manufacturer.
- RadiatedAnt, on 05/03/2009, -0/+5Penis
- cl2yp71c, on 05/03/2009, -0/+4Because all great bikes were once concepts.
- samcobra13, on 05/03/2009, -0/+4Problem with hydrogen is range.
what's the range on this thing? A bike is of no use if all you can do is go like thirty miles before you need a new tank of H2.
On the plus side, it really does run on gas :P - eviljolly, on 05/03/2009, -1/+5Concepts = Advertising in most cases.
It's a company's way of saying, "Hey look what we can do. We're awesome." And then they sell you a model that looks similar, but has 1/4 the horsepower. - fmaxwell, on 05/03/2009, -1/+5@yerdaddy:
"Upside-down" forks
Fuel Injection
Traction control
Remote reservoir, high-pressure, nitrogen charged mono-shocks.
Radial caliper disc brakes
Low-flex, lightweight frames and swingarms
Look at a 600cc modern sport bike that makes over 120hp with a DOHC, fuel-injected engine that spins at over 15,000RPM in a package with a dry weight of under 360lbs. and tell me that high performance doesn't get incorporated into production bikes. - Warom, on 05/03/2009, -1/+5iPhone-esque, i mean really, is everything iphone-esque now?
- inactive, on 05/02/2009, -0/+3Crazy looking bike.
- FelixdaaHack, on 05/03/2009, -1/+4Think global - 2 billion people in China/India riding around on Motorbikes emitting water vs CO2....yes please
- asgardshill, on 05/03/2009, -1/+4Good luck actually finding liquid hydrogen anywhere.
- inactive, on 05/03/2009, -1/+4Conceptually cool, but ascetically unpleasant...can we just add a little smoothness to it?
- ChileanGoD, on 05/03/2009, -0/+3That looks like a mutant crossing of a sport motorcycle, a transformer and the portal gun.
- TeCuervo, on 05/03/2009, -2/+5With motorcycles getting up to 80 mpg it is necessary to focus on them first...
- danthepiercer, on 05/03/2009, -0/+3whatever. who the hell needs a hydrogen bike when its the ***** pickup trucks and semis getting 200yds/gal?!
im getting rather cynical about this whole ***** green revolution. \
now the terms 'renewable, sustainable, and green' are just as cliche and meaningless as all of the other buzz words and catch phrases that we throw around. meanwhile, we sit here blowing sunshine up each others asses about how ***** clever and innovative we are, while waiting for the powers that be to figure out how to cut a fat profit!
i guess i'll believe it when i see it...or maybe i should say "show me the money!" - mcquitty, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2My motorcycle had a Cat. Of course, I removed it.
- drethedog, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Kaneda's new Bike?
- CivicTV, on 08/14/2009, -1/+3Yeah because oil refineries are zero emissions.
- sodade, on 05/04/2009, -0/+2It would be a hell of a lot easier to capture that CO2 at the hydrogen making plant than at the tailpipe.
- akchrs, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Hindenburg.
- daz197, on 05/03/2009, -3/+5Good Grief that thing is 10 shades of fugly. Besides, when are 40+mpg motorcycles the problem? Let's get the trains and semis to emit less pollution first. Later, we can probably afford to slap that tech in bikes.
- rhedrick, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Yeah, and like gasoline is inert.
- inactive, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Company makes uber expensive vehicle with a new energy concept
Company gives car to celebrities
Public sees celebrities driving vehicle and get erections
Company releases consumer model shortly after - leighton0h, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2my guess is a designer they would get to design a project like this would never starve....
- elnerdo, on 05/03/2009, -1/+3You know where large-scale production of hydrogen comes from?
Natural gas.
Guess what chemical that process releases?
CO2.
If every car in the world switched to hydrogen right now, and hydrogen production increased, I'd be willing to bet that MORE CO2 would be released into the atmosphere than currently. - fmaxwell, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2@yerdaddy
Traction control appeared in street bikes less than a decade after it appeared en masse on MotoGP bikes. Radial caliper disc brakes made a similarly quick jump from race to street. Look at tire tech if you think that things don't migrate to street bikes quickly. Take the average sport bike of today with DOT street tires and go back in time a decade and it would be competitive, if not a class winner, at the pro level. Not so many years ago, a 600cc race bike that made over 100hp was unheard of. Now a 600cc sport bike that made less than 100hp would be considered a beginner bike. - Wreckage, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2It also transforms into a robot to smite your enemies.
- ViscidGobs, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2I see this bike in the next RoboCop movie driving down the road and launching missiles at bad guy douchebags
- elnerdo, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2... There's no comparison to make there, Andy.
Hydrogen really only acts as an energy storage. You need to still get the energy from somewhere, and that somewhere is usually methane (Currently, a very large portion of the world's natural gas production goes to hydrogen production)
An oil refinery on the other hand, requires very little energy compared to the energy of the fuel that comes out of it. That's because when the oil is pumped from the ground it already has a crap-ton of energy.
Comparably, an oil refinery IS practically zero emissions. (All an oil refinery does is heat the oil and allow it to separate into components based on boiling point, and collect the components. Yes, it does require energy to heat the oil, but it's comparably very, very little). - DWatch, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Yup, 10 times more emissions versus a car is about right (see the California Air Resources Board comparisons on their web site). This assumes your car is relatively modern and is properly maintained, though. The majority of cars on the road are not.
However, the overall release of CO2 is much lower than that of a car. You can't magically reduce CO2 via a catalytic converter. What the catalytic converter is reducing is the overall number of 'smog' producing emissions, such as NOx, and unburned gasoline from the combustion chambers.
If your only concern is for using far less gas and producing less greenhouse gas (CO2) then riding a bike is a good start. If your only concern is the overall health of the air around you, and in areas like Los Angeles and Mexico City its a valid concern, then you should look for a high mileage, catalytic equipped car, or better yet, a hybrid. - mc88, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2I've always been curious to know if everyone drove hydrogen powered cars that emit water vapor, would the world become very humid?
- fafaforza, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2There are bikes that come with catalytic converters, albeit not the bargain priced ones.
Bikes also reduce congestion, so less time sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, all alone in your 4 door sedan. - tsmallm, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Ok so it runs on hydrogen.............so that means it has to look retarded why?
- breakaway, on 05/03/2009, -0/+2Is it loud and obnoxious? If not I don't want it.
- elnerdo, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1To be fair, gasoline is an incredibly safe chemical. Yeah, it burns, but it doesn't burn explosively, and it isn't kept under compression, and it generally needs to spread out before it can actually burn.
- yerdaddy, on 05/03/2009, -1/+2You think machines like that are built by starving artists?
- mountolive, on 05/04/2009, -0/+1...and then i jizzed in my pants
- yerdaddy, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Easily half of the concept designs you will see, especially the ones that are just digital renderings, take the best of existing racing technology and apply it in ways that don't even work right.
- BillE3, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1An airbag??? I can just picture getting launched...
- danthepiercer, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1right you are, sir.
- edwinjose, on 05/05/2009, -0/+1Tell that to the future.
- JakeyG14, on 05/03/2009, -0/+1Your argument is invalid.
I live my life a quarter mile at a time, and I think it looks cool. -
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