The big brands are doing research to further develop zero-emission fuels, but is it enough? Experience shows that it is not, as one of them has gone ahead and developed an impossible motorcycle engine that has scientists on tenterhooks: it might have been almost illegal several months ago, but now it is an example that the whole industry is looking at (and so are we).
The impossible motorcycle engine: why no brand has ever succeeded in creating it
There was a time, probably for several decades, when it seemed utterly impossible to imagine a motorcycle engine that used hydrogen. Gasoline has been the primary source of energy in the transportation sector for ages, and the idea of replacing a liquid in use for decades with another clean and renewable energy.
This turbocharged motorcycle engine is not just the dream of having an engine that uses hydrogen as a fuel, it is a dream of human kind, the belief in the existence of solutions. Hoping to curb the effects of climate change and global warming to the society, the need forclean energy sources cannot be overemphasized.
Carnage cars are not only a chief source of greenhouse gases, but are also based on a resource that is scarce and fast diminishing at that. Now, behold the hydrogen powered motorcycle engine that is set to redefine the future of travelling on two wheels.
Scientists succeed in creating the first motorcycle hydrogen engine: a milestone in sustainable mobility
The brain behind this innovative motorcycle is the Ion Plasma Reactor; a creation of the researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This revolutionary technology utilises the energy produced by hydrogen fusion – a technology that has long been a source of dreams for efficient clean energy production.
The Ion Plasma Reactor is a cylindrical object that looks like a cylinder big enough to fit a human inside, It is used to keep and heat a plasma of hydrogen isotopes, by using powerful magnetic fields and reaching temperatures of over 100 million Celsius degrees.
It is imperative to bear in mind that while the combustion engines of traditional automobiles burn fossil fuels, the Ion Plasma Reactor creates energy through nuclear fusion that is almost eternal and replicates no hazardous greenhouse emitters.
The Ion Plasma Reactor offers a significant improvement in efficiency and precision due to its design. By incorporating the full potential in nuclear fusion, the reactor is capable of generating much more power from the same quantity of hydrogen fuel as that achievable through conventional chemical combustion processes.
From plasma-ion to hydrogen: the invention that ended as nobody expected
The process of redrawing the image and evolving the idea of the hydrogen engine from the drawing to an actual working piece was not easy, as you might already know and assume. But the team of researchers at MIT did not demoralize as they held great confidence in this technology to change the common transport.
This evolutionary process involved one spectacular step recently, when an Ion Plasma Reactor was invented and the hydrogen was transformed into electricity. This led to the advancement of making a small and light weight engine that could fulfill the power need of a motorcycle without use of gasoline.
However, the journey was far from a smooth sail, as some of these people encountered one challenge or the other in their sojourn to the top. Treating patients, the authors faced many challenges: getting the maximum level of performance out of the reactor, as well as coming up with a means of storing the fuel.
This new motorcycle hydrogen engine from Suzuki highlights how electric motors are not going to be the only future of this vehicle, something we could also apply to cars. This move is actually not strange, remember that the ammonia that some models are using is part of an idea already explored and developed with boats. Unexpected innovation? Indeed it is.
