Is it possible to produce electricity through hydrogen?

Question

today i have read in newspaper that in future cars will run on water. In which hydrogen and oxygen will get separated after that hydrogen will be useful to drive car and oxygen will be release in the air.

My question is that if that is possible in car then is it possible to produce electricity by making hydorgen electric power plant?

Answer 1

Sort of.  Hydrogen is actually an energy storage medium.

The way to get electricity from hydrogen is to separate the hydrogen from either fossil fuels (hopefully capturing the carbon in the process) or from water, then burning the hydrogen in a gas turbine.  In this process the energy is actually coming from either the fossil fuels or the water, and the hydrogen is just the storage medium.  But yes, you can produce electricity by burning hydrogen.  See the link below for further details.

Answer 2

Go back to school !!!  Stop trying to get something for nothing. U will use about 300% more power (electric) to make hydrogen than u can get out of your motor generator.

Answer 3

Absolutely!  The only problem is that to create hydrogen you use electricity.  In fact, you use more energy to create the hydrogen than you will get from burning it (due to the inefficiencies of combustion).

So, yes you could, but it wouldn't make sense.

In my opinion, the best system is a nuclear power plant producing electricity which is then used to create hydrogen from water.  The hydrogen is then pumped to the filling stations for our cars to run on.  The only pollutants produced in the entire system would then be the nuclear waste which is containable, as opposed to the current gases and smoke (from coal and natural gas power plants) currently produced.

Answer 4

it is possible to reak the benefits of HHO. it may not be technologically advanced enough to sustain its self and break the laws of physics but it can definately help our pocketbooks by saving the amount of crude oil we need to operate our vehicles.... thats a plus in my eyes... i am currently building a smack booster that emits 1.7+ lpm with less than 200 dollars worth of parts.

Answer 5

No it's not.  The use of hydrogen incars does produce electricity--but first you have to manufacture the hydorogen.

Currently, we do this by extracting hydrogen from oil ((in the long run that hs to change--or we aren't getting anywhere either in terms of the environment or cost.

The alternative is to produce hydrogen by (as you notted) splitting water molecules. But to do that you have to put exactly as much electricity IN as you will get out when the hydrogen is burned to produce electricity. More, in fact, because no system is 100% efficient.

Hydrogen is a good way to STORE electrical power. But it cannot be sued as the original source of the electricity.

Answer 6

Scientifically yes, technically possible, conservation can be achieved, commercially failure,

a turbine can be run on hydrogen fuel, but the process to separate hydrogen from water is electrolysis, where electricity is required, and the conservation loss will be uncertain hence commercially not viable, but keep the options open, lot of research is on in this field, may be some invention will make the world blink on this issue