Does anyone know the viability of having a hydrogen das station in everyones garage?

Question

Does anyone know the viability of having a hydrogen das station in everyones garage?

Answer 1

It's not very viable (or safe).

Answer 2

Question is irrelevent to the issue.Moreover electrically making hydrogen need not be expensive as one of you claims.

Wrong, (go to the back of the class, and have a time out, lol)

It would be cheap and truely clean if the electricity is made

cleanly.

Yes, hydrogen is dangerous, yes its even very dangerous to store

Why is it irrelevent?

1. Because making and storing large volumes of hydrogen is in fact not neccessary, in the first place.

2.Even small amounts of hydrogen added to normal fuel/air mix can greatly improve preformance

In contradiction, also, of your electrolysis is expensive argument, backyarders have made little units to run on their car battery to add hydrogen to air intake, and achieved up to 50% efficiency improvements with what amounts to tiny volumes of hydrogen running through their ( unmodified ) engines.

This is science fair level stuff, and any decent mechanic could follow the build instructions.

3. As decried loudly by the semi educated here, hydrogen is powerful stuff, very. For that reason, a combustion engine designed to run on it would in fact  need very little by comparison to petrol fuels, any decent battery bank on board could in fact make most if not all needed as you drove it around, which means you could "fill up" on water.

You have been misinformed if you think any of this is technically hard, or some gross distortion.

Moreover the main "advocates" of so called Hydrogen infrastructure is in fact the oil companies, because they don't see a future in selling you water, funny that.

Coincidentally, I have found a commercial site that is selling a similar system to that I explained above, check it out;

"The HAFC Hydrogen

Fuel Cell"

http://www.preignitioncc.com/rockin69/

And no, I"m not involved in the company in any way, if you are sceptical as I am you wondered, I might buy one once I "change countries" again though...

Thanks for link Ozzi, from another Aussie he he of course... I'm off to check it out now.

only people better at inventing seems to be the KIWIS oh well, we can still beat em at footy ( ocaisionally )

Answer 3

Not very viable.

Electrolyzers are expensive.  It is also very inefficient to produce hydrogen from electricity and then turn it back into motion.  If you are starting with electricity, it is far more efficient and much cheaper to use batteries instead of hydrogen.

Even California is starting to figure this out; several of the stations on the "hydrogen highway" have been closed.

Answer 4

I have worked with liquid hydrogen and it leaks through almost anything and blow the whole block away.

Answer 5

do you know how to say BOMB.

hydrogen is one of the most explosive gasses around.

just ask anyone that has had a battery explode on them and that is a very small amount of hydrogen.

i think that the insurance industry will put a stop to any home hydrogen systems.

Answer 6

Hydrogen is very difficult to store as it can and will leak through pretty much every container you have. Right now it is not very viable. But I know that some scientists in Australia are trying to make some chemical compound power thingy that can store hydrogen more easily.

Answer 7

Some of you will be pleased to know that there is an easy and economical way to convert water to hydrogen. The exciting thing about what this fellow-Aussie has put together (based on 90 yr old technology) is that this system extracts the hydrogen as it is needed....only while your vehicle is running. This eliminates the need for dangerous hydrogen storage tanks, as no hydrogen is actually stored, except in its' original form...water! The vehicles' battery charge is used for the process. Once again, only while the vehicle is in operation, so there is no depletion of the power supply. Truly ingenious, and it works a treat. Visit the link below for all the details. If you're remotely skilled with a few mechanics tools, you can fit this system yourself over the weekend, at a cost of around $200. Do yourself and the environment a favour. I can guarantee your government isn't going to do it for you!

http://ozzigold.water4gas.hop.clickbank....