What do you know about producing hydrogen for electricity? I know you can use hgenerators (search) with solar.

Question

Why not do this? Some people do this and power their homes and sell back the excess energy. Why not power your vehicle as well? I hear it's dangerous. Why so? It's less flammable than petroleum, we're just used to dealing with gas so it's not scary. I know that it would devastate the government economy, but help the planet. Not to mention our pocketbooks. What's more important the government, or the planet? I'm interested in openminded, intelligent answers. Not typical naysayers, who would like us to believe that global warming, or the techonolgy doesn't exist. Is there really no better way for us?

Answer 1

You need to have a vehicle that will run on hydrogen and there is no company that mass produces a car that runs on it.  We need places to fill it many people live in places that it is not possible to have an hgenerator at your home.  And with most things people shy away from it if the initial investment is too high.  Also people do not want to put in extra effort to have the hgenerator and get distilled water we are a society who barely cooks for themselves any more.  There are many vehicles that run on compressed natural gas so I agree with you on the fact that it is probably not more dangerous than that.  

P.S.  If you know where they sell hydrogen powered cars for a reasonable price let me know I would consider buying one, my wind turbine has plenty of extra generation capacity.

Answer 2

Hydrogen is the worst possible means of storing energy because it is nearly impossible to contain.  The molecules are so small that they escape through the pores of even the most solid materials available so that when stored in a tank is leaks out in a matter of days.  That's why they have to fuel the space shuttle the same day they launch it.

Answer 3

This is an ok way to go for now, I'd like to see solar coupled with less violent things like batteries, which are quieter, although the improvements in batteries and solar are lacking.

go look up the prices of a 1.5kW Solar collector(and it's dimensions), consider the average vehicle on the road, has engines that put out between 70 and 100 kW, and the fact that you will lose energy by converting water to hydrogen, how long do you think it will take you (how much money, how much of your yard or roof) to fill up for a 50 mi journey?

it's just not practical for everyone right now, but I think it's a step in the right direction.  

It's time for people to start to make a choice, you can think about it all you want, or you can use the technology you have at hand and change your lifestyle,

side note: there are algae that can photoelectrolyze hydrogen when in certain situations, and, get this, I read an article about an inventor who used them to reduce carbon emmissions af a cogen plant at MIT.

Answer 4

Hydrogen is only as clean as the electricity used to produce it.

There is only a limited amount of electrical generation available. Hydrogen is not very convenient; storage is a big problem. Hydrogen is not a fuel; it has to be made using other energy sources so there is an efficiency issue. There is no infrastructure in place and there won't be until there is a large demand for it. It costs a lot more to produce than gasoline. Lots of technical issues to be resolved.

Unless of course you are willing to go to Neptune where hydrogen exists as ice crystals... The problem here being the introduction of large quantities of hydrogen to bond with the limited supply of oxygen in our atmosphere, thus raising the sea level.

Global warming is only an opinion, not a fact. That opinion is is being sold as fact in order to get Green Fascists into political power.