Powering Your House with Hydrogen?
As suggested here, there is no law that says you can’t power your house with electricity derived from hydrogen fuel cells. Of course, that doesn’t make it a good idea.
The problem is that the processes of electrolyzing water, then running the resulting hydrogen through a fuel cell, results in a net energy loss of approximately 50%. So if you don’t mind dealing with something that is so horribly inefficient that it requires twice as much energy to get the same job done, then maybe hydrogen isn’t a bad solution.
Even if that isn’t a deal-breaker, the fabulous capital and operational costs associated with the whole thing should be.
If hydrogen has a role in our energy future, it lies in transportation, where a portable liquid fuel is a potential competitor to batteries and petroleum derivatives.
Dear Craig
We have now a stand alone machine to make hydrogen with only 5 kw energy and 4l of water.
This machine combined with an existing biomass heating system of 1MW reduce the input of wood pellets by 40 per cent.
Secondly together with a French professor we propose a solution to produce 100 % Hydrogen at competitive prices from Miscanthus
Third, for dry systems of wheat corn … we propose a total ecological solution that is fully paid back in 5 years. That means after that the energy cost is equally to ZERO
All the best
Gerolf
Nice to hear from you again.
KW is a unit of power, not energy. Please clarify.
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