I see these commercials for the Hydrogen Car. But where do you get the Hydrogen?

Question

I see these commercials for the Hydrogen Car. But where do you get the Hydrogen?

Answer 1

Consider yourself lucky, the reason they are not mass produced is they explode upon impact!

Answer 2

Commercial hydrogen is mostly produced by chemical reformation of natural gas.  N. America is running out of natural gas just like oil, so this has no future.  This also produces carbon dioxide.

Some plants produce hydrogen by electrolysis of water.  However, this takes a lot of electricity and is very expensive.  It is much cheaper to charge batteries than to use electricity to make hydrogen, and then use a fuel cell to get electricity again.

The Bush administration appears to be using hydrogen as a diversion from efforts which would actually help get us off oil.

Answer 3

Pumping stations are still scarce.  The Bush Administration has been working with the EU to standardize hydrogen energy infrastructure but in the past few years there has been a huge push from Al Gore and others to divert national interest and investment money into other dirty, carbon based fuels like corn Ethanol.

I would not buy one of those cars yet for my own use.

However, there are now fleets of H-powered cargo haulers and vans running around the US since their routes include known hydrogen fueling stations.

I also saw an impressive demo of a house that produces its own hydrogen fuel from a water supply and solar panels on the roof.  Hopefully, if Bush's hydrogen plan gets more support, we can all have systems like that.

[Addendum for Yohann and others: Bush has pushed rapid development of geothermal, wind and solar sources for electrolysis.  My home town has a geothermal plant providing energy and I see more being installed.  I'd rather see more geothermal than more oil drilling any day since the Earth will stay hot for millions of years.  Bio-fuels are simply not sustainable, accelerating degradation of natural habitat, consumption of fresh water and diverting food production lands to ... filling our gas tanks?  Insanity.

We have more and more Hydrogen vehicles on the road every day.  Ford has a fleet of H-powered E450 cargo haulers out there.  GM even provided the military with H-powered trucks.  I'm good with that.]

Answer 4

@GABY

is it dangerous? ---

http://www.vidicom-tv.com/tohiburg.htm

Answer 5

you can get hydrogen from water by putting two electrode and connect with solar cell. hydrogen and oxygen is continues produced when sun light available.

solar cell need more space so it's require to place them in large   area. collect all hydrogen gas from this and distribute in rest of world. use hydrogen as your car requirement like car, bus, electricity.

hydrogen gas's transportation and usage is better efficient than electricity.

Answer 6

Very good question. Also must ask what hydrogen cost? How about "Is it dangerous"? How much power does it take to make it?

The answer to these simple questions will probably make you loose interest in H2 as an alternate fuel.

Answer 7

Speakeas:

FYI: The EU has nearly frozen hydrogen research for some good reasons...

But I have a question for you: where do you get the power to produce hydrogen from?

If you are thinking about the Bush plan to create hydrogen from geothermal energy, can you tell me why we would use it while it is even more expensive than solar generated hydrogen (which is already a sign of madness) ?

Answer 8

If you mean "hybrid car", it means that it operates on gasoline and electricity (battery).