A H2 Mini-Grid System will power the Environmental Energy Tech. Centre in Yorkshire, UK. A wind turbine will power an electrolyzer to generate H2. When winds are low, stored H2 will fuel 3 12-kW fuel cells.
Global Heating: Why We Must Shift to Carbon-Free Fuel
Our good friend Peter Hoffmann (Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Letter) has a 2-part series on the Huffington Post addressing the global problem of climate change and global warming and making the case for hydrogen playing a big role in the solution.
07.24.2008
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July 28, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Robert Dopp says...
You are so right. There is another caveat as well: By combining the hydrogen with carbon from CO2 or waste carbon from other sources, produces either methane or Syngas depending on the chemistry. This can be bottled and used in conventional vehicles with zero carbon added to the environment. If alkaline fuel cells were used in vehicles, then they would actually sweep out CO2, sequestering it as harmless potassium carbonate. It all balances on efficient, high rate water electrolysis.
I am Robert Dopp of DoppStein Enterprises Inc. (www.doppstein.com) and am working in water electrolysis for the production of hydrogen. There is very little real data in the Internet regarding electrolysis, so my Whitepaper should add some much needed detail to your knowledge base. This Whitepaper is a distillation from my paper I gave to the National Hydrogen Association in March of 2007.
As an overview: I invented an electrochemical fluidized bed reactor, which electrolyzed water at very high rates and very high efficiencies. I am in the process of developing full and multi-cell units. Below is a link to the whitepaper.
http://www.doppstein.com/white_papers/docs/Water%20Electrolysis%20April%2007f.pdf
Best Regards,
Bob
July 30, 2008 @ 10:03 pm
Jack Mosca says...
What is the cost to build a hydrogen fuel filling station? The Governor of California has proposed 200 plus to be constructed.
How much time does it take to re-fuel a car with the existing technology? Reported: The Toyota fuel cell to be released shortly has a reported range of 500 miles?
July 31, 2008 @ 12:53 pm
Jennifer says...
http://www.fuelcells.org/info/fclib.html#hydrogen - check out GM’s presentation on the hdyrogen infrastructure (first link). There are also other good reports in that list.
Refueling is very quick - I believe it only takes a few minutes to fuel a car with hydrogen.
December 4, 2008 @ 2:02 am
Run Your Car on Water Scam says...
Run Your Car on Water Scam…
Will we ever have a reasonably priced car that runs solely on natural resources?…