Where's your nearest hydrogen filling station?

Question

mine is now only 100 miles away.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1566/78/

woohoo! time to start saving up for a fuel cell car. how much do they cost? just a little one....

Answer 1

Thousands of miles away, and if you had bothered to read the article, you would know the station you are refering to is not open to the public.  It is a test station that will be used to fuel a specific fleet of hydrogen powered vehicles to compare the total cost of operation against a similar fleet of conventionally fueled vehicles.  Also, it can only fuel six cars per day.  Thats right, six.  My near by gas station can fuel 8 cars every 10 minutes.  That works out to 1152 cars per day.  Hopefully you are beginning to see some of the problems with hydrogen fueled cars.

Answer 2

Ours are the same distance, but don't jump on the band wagon too quickly. The idea is a good one but something isn't quite right with this picture. I expect the hybrid to last about as long as 8 track tapes and be replaced by some other hot new "CD" type of technology not ready to market at this point. The industry wants you to spend and spend and spend, new car and tech after another and another so they can keep the big money in the family.

Answer 3

they are making portable ones

Answer 4

Dear Littilro,

I have learned that there are hydrogen filling stations around.  Thank you!!!  I would have advised you to check out a welding supply.   Hydrogen is used in welding, and you can order mixed gases of  of all kinds.  They may be pretty expensive, check out the price.  Are you planning to convert a car to Hydrogen?  There are better ways of making a car burn clean.  Adding about ten percent alcohol to gasoline will usually let most cars pass emission tests.  Pure alcohol is so clean burning that you can breath the fumes without harm.  Ethanol (grain alcohol---booze) and methanol (wood alcohol) both burn very, very will in a gasoline engine with little modification.  The jets in the carburetor need to be changed to a larger size, and some rubber parts may deteriorate.   The old bootleggers in the 1920's used it up in the hills because moonshine was cheaper than gasoline.  When I was young, racing jocks used alcohol in their hot-rods!

Answer 5

Hydrogen + 2 Oxygen = water

The world is overflowing with Hydrogen.

A fuel cell can separate hydrogen and oxygen. When we burn this H + O we get back a big bang and some water. The fuel cell is here today but

mankind is a greedy fellow by nature. So the oil business is just where our greed wants it for the time being.

Answer 6

Well I don't live in the UK, so I don't know!

However, besides the lack of infrastructure, the other problem with hydrogen is that there's no environmentally friendly source of the fuel.  Right now we mainly get our hydrogen from fossil fuels, and the process emits a lot of CO2.  Hydrogen cars are still a long ways away from being a viable option.

Answer 7

I'm in Leicestershire, so i'd have to travel around 45 miles

Answer 8

Right where the people who killed the electric car wanted it to be:  a hundred miles away and a hundred years in the future, if you're most people.

Answer 9

10000000000000000 miles away

Answer 10

mars

Answer 11

Personally I'll stick to clean-diesel - hydrogen cars sound too much like the hindenburg to me....