Re: Electrolysis and hydrogen and some other thoughts.

["Thomas J Webster" <ford1929@frontiernet.net>]

Somewere their is a guy with a hydrogen/gasoline burning Model A ford. -Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Uzi" <samuzi@kcd.com>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Electrolysis and hydrogen and some other thoughts.


> > Still that's not bad if you access to cheap and plentiful electricity
(maybe
> > off-peak?)
> > [...]
> > Considering that with today's technology a fuel cell EV using this
process
> > would cost you two to three times as much electricity to power it as a
> > battery EV, is it worth it?
>
> you can get LOTS of electricity to produce the hydrogen from PV and wind
> turbines... and producing hydrogen when those (variable) reasources are at
peak
> means that you don't have to shunt the excess away as waste heat and then
be
> left wanting when those resources are deminished (eg: various times of the
day)
> and don't have to rely on a battery pack to do so
>
> of course, the beauty of hydrogen is that it can be used not only in fuel
cells,
> but you can burn it in ICEs and jet turbines, too, so the same fuel source
can
> be used in multiple ways... and it's pretty much inherently safer than any
other
> kind of fuel... that, with it's non-carbon emiting (ie: clean)
> combustion/reaction cycle, makes hydrogen the obvious choice
>
> so I'd say, it's DEFINITELY worth it
>
>