What do people think about hydrogen?

Question

H2o Nasty or Nice if u can like me work out how to split water and use the hydrogen as a reusable power source for homes offices do u think this idea is wise for todays people or would it destroy our way of life

Answer 1

I think it's great!  A shake up in our economy is just what we need.   We're on the wrong track if we subsidize oil, go to far away lands to stabilize governments to ensure oil supplies, dumped so much toxins into the environment that the polar bears have to drown, people suffer from illnesses related to the combustion products of hydrocarbons, the price at the pumps is going up, and the source will eventually be used up.

We need a way forward that's clean, local, and cheap to initiate the greatest economic expansion the world is likely to see.

Answer 2

Remember the hydrogen bomb? They used hydrogen why? All it would take is for one automobile that uses this to have something go wrong and then thered be a huge disaster.Theres better means than hydrogen.Unless you can split the h2o molecules  right before they are injected into the engine.

Answer 3

Hydrogen is Number 1!!!

Split water into hydrogen and oxygen?  I did that when I was a kid.  Take a battery, two test tubes, a bucket of water and some wire.  Put the test tubes in the water, filling them.  insert an electrode in each then turn them upside down in the water so that the opening is against the bottom of the bucket.  Note that they are filled with water at this point.

Now connect the batter to the two electrodes and wait for the bubbles inside the test tubes.  You'll notice one of the test tubes fills up twice as fast.  H2O remember?  Guess which one fills up twice as fast!

So why not do this to create hydrogen?  Well, you are using electricity to break apart water molecules.  That power isn't free.

Answer 4

It's too good so Oil Comanies wont allow it, just like the electric car and the compressed air car.

They feed you lies to say its too expensive or dangerous, when te truth is its just a rechargable battery. and They'v used them on space shuttles for years and they already use then in some city busses, and power plants.

Answer 5

If I was the greedy CEO of Exxon/Mobil and had nothing but contempt for the economy, the environment and national security, I'd lobby the government very hard to invest in the red-herring of hydrogen. I'd know that the energy needed to produce H2 would have to come from somewhere, and as we all know, we're used to consuming lots of oil.

With the inefficiencies of H2 production combined with the inefficiencies of fuel cells, I would not have to worry about reduced oil consumption. Also I'd make sure that I control the world's limited supply of platinum for making fuel cells. I also know that it would take at least 20 years to change our entire fuel delivery infrastructure so I wouldn't have to change anything too quickly.

What I would discourage is the development of alternative SOURCES of energy as well as better ways of storing energy such as Lithium-polymer batteries. That stuff would scare me because I might have to take my $Billion retirement bonus go live in Fiji.

Answer 6

normalily they dont cear coz there stupid and watch football and baseball thats how American people are.

Answer 7

I think hydrogen is good but I would be a little bit concerned about them putting a tank in our cars in the near future.

Answer 8

its all around us..it has to be easier to separate than drilling for oil...but first they need to make it look complicated..

Answer 9

I think hydrogen as a power source is a great idea. The problem comes from creating and storing.  Currently the amount of power needed to convert enough water to hydrogen is too costly and time consuming to meet our fuel needs, not to mention that most of the power used to create the hydrogen will still come from a "dirty" power plant.  Hydrogen also is expensive to store in liquid form which is currently the only way to get long trips out of a tank.  Compressing it in gas form doesn't give you much range.  Pretty exciting stuff recently though, researchers at Perdue University found that by combining gallium and aluminum they could create metal pellets that separated hydrogen and oxygen from water eliminating the need to store the hydrogen or use external power.

Answer 10

It won't destroy our way of life, but it can make it better.

Hydrogen solves the problem of supply and demand that gas has problems with. You can easily have desalination plants along the coast that feed into hydrogen plants. The oceans are full of water after all, and the leftover water from your car just evaporates way and back into the cycle. So the supply is basically limitless.

Hydrogen won't work for homes or offices, it's not a power supply. You can just pump energy into homes and offices the normal way.

Hydrogen works more like a battery, it's said to be the most efficient ever form of battery, because you get out of it almost everything you put in, unlike gas for instance. So it works in any application that'd need a battery in a way. Big things, machinery, from cars to boats maybe even to planes. The hydrogen is the fuel, so putting it into the tank is like filling up a battery with electricity.

So yeah, it is very wise, just a logistical nightmare because you have to put up hydrogen filling stations, and that takes a lot considering the size of continents that have cars, like North America that's very car dependent.

But it means a clean burning product, which produces only water from the tail pipe, and it's basically limitless because our planet is mostly water, so that means no dwindling supply like you have of gas, and it means you can have more hydrogen plants so that it's not dependent on just a couple of major plants like oil.

Answer 11

yes, just imagine all the water vapor givin off of the millions of cars. humidity will be our new enemy. humidity is worse than co2 emissions at that grand of scale.

give me the thumbs down everyone, but do a bit of research will ya?

Answer 12

According to a show I just watched on cable they say hydrogen is not worth it..they say it would be to expensive and take to long. Vehicles can't travel as far as electric cars can.  Some states already have electric power stations.  But the big 3 and the government under Reagan and Bush killed any plans of this country going electric.

Answer 13

Our way of life kinda sucks anyway. I'm still looking forward to that promised golden age in 2012+ We have to start sometime anyway.

Answer 14

I think I learned to split water into its component elements in grade school.  Hydrogen is fine, but not nearly as good as solar power or nuclear power.