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Hydrogen Is Breaking Out




From: David Sadler
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 4:29 PM
To: Dave Powelson
Subject: hydrogen is breaking out

Dave,

Spent a few hours yesterday and today looking at what’s new (things I didn’t know about) with hydrogen.

FUEL CELLS

HydroCar by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies
Image: HydroCar by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies

Check out Horizon Fuel Cell's Hydrocar toy. It requires NO batteries to begin the electrolysis and converts the Hydrogen into electricity to run the car using a reversible Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM). "The kit's fuel cell unit combines water electrolysis and fuel cell functions into one device." Just add water. Download the brochure from the page. The toy car has an onboard solar module that powers the electrolysis.

Horizon’s h-racer uses hydrogen too. It’s electrolysis is powered by a mini-solar panel. This toy h-racer was the #1 selling hydrogen device in the world last year (2007). It won the following awards: Silver Award from the Business Week International Design Excellence Awards and Best Inventions of 2006 by Time Magazine.

Horizon Fuel Cell Hydrocar.
Horizon Fuel Cell H-Racer
Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies
Think Big / Start Small
HOME POWER STATIONS

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Image: Honda Motors showing a drawing of the Home Energy Station powering the entire home and fueling a hydrogen powered car. Note the home is roofed in solar panels.
PURE Energy Centre's HyPOD
Image: by EcoGeek.org of PURE Energy Centre's HyPOD powered by 2 x 65watt Proven Energy wind turbines. The HyPOD produces hydrogen through electrolysis. This hydrogen then powers PURE Energy's facilities and automobiles.
See also: American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)


Then Honda got my attention with their Home Energy Station. Currently, it uses natural gas, but the Hydrocar demonstrates this can be done with solar. Then the PURE Energy Centre's HyPOD is a working commercial device that uses solar, wind or wave to power the generation of hydrogen from water. More on all this below.

What I like about Honda’s HES is how they, as a major car manufacturer, are trying to bring hydrogen cars to the mass market by providing home based filling stations. They are just using metered natural gas when they could be using free and renewable solar, wind or wave as does the HyPOD.

Check the Honda Home Energy Station out here.
Honda FCX – Official Site
... and read all four panels.
Take special note of panel 4!

The Home Energy Station
The Home Energy Station, which generates hydrogen from natural gas, is designed to provide heat and electricity for the home through fuel cell c-generation and to supply fuel for a hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle.

A bit more research yielded a stand-alone energy station powered by solar, wind, wave and storing excess electricity, not in batteries, but in hydrogen! These folks are leap-frogging Honda and THIS is the state of the art concept with technology available right now.
Hydrogen Production Module (HyPOD)
PURE Energy Centre / Renewable Onsite Hydrogen Supply for Fuel Cell Projects
Then there’s this for full sized cars. I see that water4gas is listed here at #2.
Why Waste Money On High Price Gas? Convert Your Car To Run With Water...
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Last Updated: 2/8/2008

"Welcome to the Water Fuel-Kit Reviews and Web Directory. Whether you're trying to save money on gas or just help the environment by cleaning your vehicle's emissions, converting your car to run on water (as a supplement to gasoline) provides the lowest-cost, safest, and most rewarding solution. The technology to run cars on H2O (derived from water) is proven, but the information to do so is usually expensive and hard to find. Plus, it's difficult to know which information to trust!

"So Which water-fuel conversion kit manual is best? There are several factors to consider in picking the best conversion kit guide. The first factor is whether the technology works. There are a number of conversion plans floating around the internet that either don't work, or are extremely difficult to understand. However, other guides we reviewed provide exceptional simplicity and dramatically improve fuel efficiency. Another factor to consider is cost. While most H2O conversion-kit guides cost around $400, the necessary supplies alone can sometimes exceed $500.

"Fortunately, we've been able to find a handful of effective conversion-kit guides that are not only affordable, but also use low-cost materials.

"According to our surveys, RunYourCarWithWater offers the best value for vehicle conversion to water power. They provide an ideal balance of low price, easy-to-follow directions, and excellent results. We were most impressed with the affordable materials the directions required. As of our last price check on 2/8/2008 , they are running an excellent limited time promotion. Their current conversion guide is being offered for $49.97 instead of their regular $297 price. However, there a variety of choices available for converting your car into a water hybrid. In choosing a service, it is important to compare features, because the complexity of the instructions, overall cost, and quality of results varies significantly between services.

"The following reviews are based on our survey study with over 500 respondents who have used some or all of these conversion guides, combined with our research panel’s own first hand testing of each service. If you have used any of the services below, please contact us at support@articleanswer.com, and we will factor your feedback into our ongoing reviews."

Reviews (which conversion-kit guide is best?)

RunYourCarWithWater
- (Best Rated) Easy-to-follow instructions, great results, and an unbeatable price - [currently on sale]

Water4Gas
- Intermediate difficulty instructions, above average results, and a competitive price.

Wam-a-bam
- The directions are affordable with average results, but the seller does not provide technical support.

Hydrogen-Boost
- Effective results, but very expensive.

HydroGen Power
- We were not able to integrate this technology with any of the vehicles tested, but have heard mixed reviews.

National Vapor
- $1200 cost for supplies, but there is little information about success rates.

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Benefits of Water-Fuel Conversions
There are a variety of benefits of water-fuel conversions, both in terms of convenience and in terms of cost-savings:
To drive your vehicle more miles per tank of gas.
To reduce emission-related pollution.
To improve fuel efficiency with a "reversible" conversion.
To laugh at rising gas prices and be the envy of your friends and neighbors!

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Interesting Links

Iceland's Hydrogen Buses Zip Toward Oil-free Economy
- Article about Iceland's efforts to make all cars run on hydrogen power.
Automakers Put Hydrogen Power on the Fast Track
- Article about auto manufacturers efforts to integrate hydrogen fuel technology.

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Car Culture - Hydrogen Redux
From the article ...
"It is true that hydrogen has been made mostly from a nonrenewable resource, natural gas. But Serfass pointed out that this is because, in the past, H2 was being made to clean sulfur out of gas or to make ammonia for fertilizer. Those industries have access to natural gas and are less likely to try clean methods like solar or wind to make hydrogen.

"Hydrogen can be made by electrolysis: splitting water. And the energy for this process could come from wind or solar power. In Scotland, there's a green car running on wind-power-generated hydrogen. The Pure Energy Center vehicle zooms around Shetland, the land of wool and wind. The area has always generated excess wind energy but the problem was storage. Now the energy goes into electrolysis, which makes hydrogen to power up fuel cells."

National Hydrogen Association
PURE Energy Center / Renewable Onsite Hydrogen Supply for Fuel Cell Projects
Hydrogen Production Module (HyPOD)
State-of-the-art alkaline electrolyser technology combined with either Grid, Solar, Wind, Hydro, Wave and/or Tidal power, delivers reliable, high-pressure hydrogen production from a variable and intermittent energy source, providing a safe flexible solution to specifically tailored to your needs

The Pure hydrogenTM production system offers the only off-the-shelf system in the world which can handle a direct renewable power input without any degradation. It also provides the world’s first multipurpose non-grid connected hydrogen infrastructure. Our unique hydrogen product portfolio converts surplus renewably generated electricity into stored hydrogen energy.

The stored hydrogen can then be reused as fuel for transportation, for generating power using either fuel cell or internal combustion engine, or for industrial use. Our HyPOD is scalable and has applications ranging from small community owned, public or government sites to large-scale commercial and industrial installations.

For more information please contact us to find out how our hydrogen systems can help you realise your pure energy solution.

Source: Pure Energy Centre

Fuel Cell Markets Portal / Fuel Cell Markets assists the commercialisation of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen technologies across all applications including portable power, backup power, stationary power, and transportation. Visit the sub-portals and links below for relevant news and information, business opportunities, products & services, companies and more ...
Gavin D. J. Harper Visits The PURE Energy Centre / video
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