Hydrogen fuel cell cars?

Question

does anyone have any information on hydrogen furl cell technology? or where i could find info. i kinda want a career in that field. that technology is the future of transportation, and the global well being. i wanna get on the ball before it gets rolling

Answer 1

it seemed a good idea at first but really put to practical use then you realize that it isnt.  hydrogen is expensive to produce, dangerous to transprt and really water vapor is a way worse greenhouse gas then CO2 or CFC

Answer 2

Look at the new Honda Hydrogen Cell car the FCX Clarity at www.honda.com & http://www.honda.com/fuel-cell/. This is the first hydrogen car to be sold to the public in USA. It will only be available in southern California in summer of 2008.

There are a lot of misconseption about hydrogen in cars. Currently it is expensive to produce but very soon it will not be. You could produce it from solar panels. Soon you might actually produce it in your garage and prower your home and your car.

Also go to www.ask.com. You can find lots of info there.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

If you want to learn more about H2 fuel cells or H2 as a fuel source I would recommend you browse Ballard Power Systems and US Dept of Energy Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program (links provided below)

Answer 5

You may be a bit late as far as 'getting on the ball before it gets rolling'.  

From the San Jose Mercury News -

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's vision of a "hydrogen highway" - 100 fueling stations by 2010 that would make it practical for California motorists to use non-polluting hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles - has hit a roadblock.

"Each of the last three agencies that received state funding to build a fueling station has decided not to pursue the project, including Pacific Gas & Electric's recent decision to abandon building a key Bay Area fueling station in San Carlos.

"In addition, three stations have recently closed, including one in Richmond that served county buses and was dismantled this week.

"That means the state is now down to 23 stations amid concerns that the technology is not viable in the near future and that it might be many more years before consumers have any real access to the vehicles that are now used mostly by government agencies in demonstration projects."

One of the problems with hydrogen is that hydrogen is in scarce supply and producing it requires vast amounts of energy. Climate-friendly production of liquid hydrogen on a large scale presupposes a virtually unlimited supply of ecologically produced electricity -- something not likely to materialize in the near future.

Forcing the transition to a hydrogen-based economy within the next three to four decades is not an economically sound idea. Approximately 95% of the hydrogen produced in the U.S. is made via natural gas reforming in large central plants. The U.S. currently imports about 15% of the natural gas it uses. Producing large amounts of hydrogen from natural gas in the long term would only trade U.S. dependence on imported oil for U.S. dependence on imported natural gas.

There is a persistent myth that Joe Citizen can just produce his own hydrogen with water and a battery. Creating hydrogen from water (using electricity) is much less efficient than creating hydrogen from natural gas, and is not considered viable due to excessive cost. The pint or two of low pressure hydrogen gas that Mr. (or Mrs.) citizen could produce at home during a day using the 'free' methods advocated by others here would move a hydrogen fuel cell car no more than a few blocks.

Beyond the seemingly simple task of splitting hydrogen out of water with electricity, there are the factors of compressing the hydrogen once it is produced, cooling the hydrogen to a liquid state and then powering the cryogenic storage tank and vehicle delivery pumps. If stainless steel tanks and delivery piping are used (almost mandatory due to the extremely high pressures used) there will be issues with hydrogen embrittlement of the metal, and maintenance will become an expensive issue in the ‘homebrew’ hydrogen system.

Of note (and not ever reported by the Fool Cell press) is that producing hydrogen from natural gas -does- result in greenhouse gas emissions. In central station hydrogen production from natural gas reforming, the mass of CO2 emitted is 2.51 times greater than the mass of hydrogen produced.

Answer 6

fuel cells are expensive and they do not produce much power, on an individual basis. you can make a stack of fuel cells and achieve the desired level of power.  

there are several web sites that have information about fuel cells and about hydrogen power.

the production of hydrogen, pure hydrogen, is really pretty simple. all you need is clean water and D.C. electric current. Storage of enough hydrogen to power your fuel cell to make it all worthwhile is however a different matter.