Is Hydrogen based business a safe idea? Such as a Hydrogen refueling station?

Question

Is Hydrogen based business a safe idea? Such as a Hydrogen refueling station?

Answer 1

Wanna understand Hydrogen Fuel and see how to cash in on it? Check out the Petrocheap.com website. It explains it... and no, it is NOT dangerous lol. That is ridiculous and an uneducated comment.

Answer 2

Hydrogen fuel is a bad idea...to dangerous and costly..a better way is to have more nuclear power plants and a vehicle like the one in California that user's electric and gas... it gets 220 to over 300 mpg ...I know nuclear power is costly to build but it benefits in many ways

Answer 3

Man!!!!!! We should go in business with each other.  I am currently working on adapting small Cessna planes to work on hydrogyn... only problem... hydrogyn aint cheap.  It IS a safe idea.  Hydrogyn is only explosive is gas form.  Just like natural  gas.  So if you pressurize or cool down the hydrogyn after it is formed... it is not explosive.

I would reccomend you creating an at home filling station.  Where hydrogyn is extracted from water and stored in tanks at your own house.

Honda has started work on that: http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/archive...  

Now a gallon of water where I live costs 50 cents per gallon.  Now to produce hydrogen would cost 50 cents... PLUS about a dollar for eenergy usage.  Therefore a gallon would cost you $1.50 to make.  Sell it for $3.00 per gallon and make a profit.  Hydrogen cars get 60 mpg... tripple that of gas cars about.

So in your station with these prices people pay this amount per mile:

Gas at $4.15/gal: 20 cents a mile

Hydrogen at $3.00/gal: 5 cents a mile

Answer 4

If you are referring to the fact that hydrogen is highly flammable, bear in mind that petrol is as well...

Reserach into ways to store hydrogen safely and compactly is ongoing, with proper safety procedures a hydrogen economy wouldn't be any more dangerous than an oil based economy.

Answer 5

Well, it would certainly be interesting to do the mathematics involved.  Hydrogen has a very low energy density, so you need to move a lot of it, which means that you're working at very high pressures.  If you're planning to make the stuff from water, the power line needed to supply a large-scale dissociation plant--that is, one capable of fueling the same number of vehicles that currently patronize your local Exxon--will be truly something to see, because you'll be using power from that line to power every car that comes into your station.  

That's why there aren't any hydrogen refueling stations outside of websites.  Nobody wants to handle the stuff, and there's no evidence that anyone's planning risk much money into the technology.

And beware of any investment scheme that involves alternative energy: I think we'll be seeing the first prosecutions by the end of the summer.

Answer 6

There trying one in Sweden look it up!