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If you could, would you produce Hydrogen from solar cells and water in your home for your own car?

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It takes pure water for electrolysis. Bottled or purified.

Should be done only when there is surplus energy, at off-peak hours.

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  1. I probably cant afford the extravagence


  2. Hydrogen is very dangerous. It takes almost nothing to make it explode.

  3. it should not be done as it is very explosive?.

  4. No.  The best method for hydrogen production will probably not involve solar energy.  It will be thermal, either geothermal, or nuclear thermal.  It's the sulfur-iodine process, and every step is endothermic.  Hydrogen is not economically feasible unless it's done somehow with high temperatures.  Room temperature electrolysis, the only option safe enough for homes, just doesn't work as well.

  5. No, because it requires a lot of energy to extract hydrogen via electrolysis.  Off peak hours are at night, when there's no Sun to provide power to a solar cell.  Additionally, solar power technology is currently not very efficient, so you couldn't get much hydrogen from the process.

    On top of that, you'd need a way to get the hydrogen from your house to your car, and a car that can burn hydrogen as fuel.

    It's an interesting idea, but simply not feasible.

  6. no, it would be easier to use solar cells to recharge the battery in an electric car and use the electric car.

    .... oh .. I see someone else has the same answer... well we must be right!

  7. Much easier to charge a battery using Solar panels and use it to run the car.

    In fact this is the main idea behind Electric Vehicles, use Solar PV to charge the car and run it.

  8. If I could afford a hydrogen car I suppose I could afford the solar system to create the hydrogen.  LOL.  The answer to this question is yes.

  9. I already have a Hydrogen generator in my car and it is powered by the alternator and battery of the car

    I am presently doing mileage tests with it and expect the fuel saving to be in the region of 25-30%

    Hydrogen requires a great temperature to ignite that does gas.

    In a collision gas pools around the car and set fire to all of it, because H is 15 times lighter than air it flares straight up in the air

    http://www.evworld.com/article.cfm?story...

    Oh by-the -way I also have a solar panel fitter to the rear parcel shelf to keep the battery charged up
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