Re: Can you construct a fuel cell car?

[don hall <drhall@iglou.com>]

Teoman....

Listen, the early fuel cells will be tanked hydrogen, that will last about
two-maybe three years, but afterwards forget it.....the Zinc/Air fuel cell is
all around better performance, price and refueling.

Want to make a fuel cell right now? at home? ok .....grab a D battery, open up
and lose the innards, chop up the zinc wrapper, not the steel outer, then put
the Zinc on the folded thick napkin.....now, mix up a 30% solution of potassium
hydroxide, Red Devil lye should work, soak the napkin folding over your Zn pile,
soak another folded napkin and starting measuring about 1.23V

that was fun wasn't it???

The future of fuel cells will / should be, quick and easy fuel changes, no
pressure tanks to worry about, and inexpensive fuel.....about same as cheap
gas.....

Don Hall
Bear Creek Research

Teoman Naskali wrote:

> I am wondering is it possible for the individual to consturcut a fuelcell
> car with a 30.000 dollar budget?
> If you constructed a case (covering the whole back seat, the safest part of
> the car) out of fiberglass that would absorb the shock of a crash and in the
> middle you could have 2 or 3 bottles of hydrogen.
>
> You could use electrolyse to form hydrogen in to air tanks used by divers,
> (i dont know howmany (X) bars) and then you could have a compressor to
> compress it to a nother tank X bars at a time.
>
> So once you have the hydrogen in tank, how do you convert it to the precious
> volts and amps you want? Fuel cells do this but do they have one that can
> produce say 30kW? how do you regulate this? Most important could you build
> one to produce 30 kW?
>
> Just a thaught
> Probably not, but still...
>
> A. Teoman Naskali

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