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− | Fuel Cells and other Clean Energy Sources...
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− | A Hydrogen <u>Fuel Cell</u> is a device that converts hydrogen and oxygen from the air into electrical current.
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− | An <u>Electrolizer</u> is a device that breaks water into it's two basic parts of 2 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen atom.
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− | <u>Hydrogen</u> is the first element in the periodic table, with just one Electron and one Proton.
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− | It is a fundimental building block of many parts of our environment, like water, ..., natural gass, propane, fosil fuels.
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− | I am currently playing arround with a Regenerative or Reversible Fuel Cell, Which works as both a hydrogen fuel
| + | * [[SEVA:User:Rjf/Willies Red Rocket]] An Insight With a 8 pound Turbo! |
− | cell and an electrolizer. It is capable of producing Hydrogen (H2) and Oxygen (O2) gasses from water (H2O) and
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− | electricity. It can then use this H2 and O2 to produce electricity where the only byproduct is water. My Fuel Cell is part of a model car kit that costs ~$150. Like this kit from
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− | [http://www.thamesandkosmos.com/store/fuelcell1.html thames and kosmos] or this kit from
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− | [http://www.heliocentris.com/products/hyco.html Heliocentris].
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− | Hydrogen wants to return to a "stable" state, by sharing an electron with another atom, like oxygen to form water.
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− | To store it for use with a fuel cell, <u>stove</u>, or <u>blimb</u> you have to have a lot of it in a tight container.
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− | To keep enough of it you have to compress it to more than 5,000 psi,
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− | or you can cool it into a liquid and use it as it boils back into a gas at -2?? degrees C.
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− | Both of these options are a little difficult to deal with in our world.
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− | Another way to store it is to give it nice place to share electrons with a hydrogen sponge like metal-hydride.
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− | In a Metal-Hydride Tank hydrogen gas at as little as 60 psi is obsorbed creating heat in the process.
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− | To get the hydrogen back you just add some heat, luckily there is usuaily enough here on earth to do just that.
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− | [[Image:At20031006.jpg|thumb|right|So, you want to drive a Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles?]]
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− | For now, visit some of these sites.
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− | * [http://www.fuelcellstore.com Fuel Cell Store]
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− | * [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ev-list-archive/message/9147 Fuel cell article from the SF Chronicle] - Oct 7, 2003.
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− | * [http://www.hydrogennow.org/whats_available/homepower.html Home Power Articles @ hydrogennow.org] | |
− | * [http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2003/19/ma_375_01.html Hydrogen's Dirty Secret(or rather Bushes)]
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− | * [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/toyota-prius/message/64570 Hydrogen Production] - Oct 6, 2003.
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− | * [http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/ev-list-archive/message/6259 Ford H2-Electric hybrid] Aug 16, 2003.
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