OT: Hydrogen conversion kits WAS:need some help with fuel cells

[Joshua Zeidner]

 BTW- if anyone in AZ is interested in Hydrogen Car Conversion kits,
I'd really like to see one of these actually work.  Although this has
absolutely nothing to do with Linux whatsoever, I find I high level of
interesection between Linux and alt-energy folks.

 -jmz


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Kurt Granroth
<kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> wrote:
> Technomage-hawke wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> >
> > > I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine.
> > > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9
> > > http://www.siei.org/mainpage.html
> > >
> > > The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good
> > > place to start for the feasibility of different ideas.
> > >
> > >
> > read that one. and no, I don't have $50,000 to spend. I was hoping for
> something more along the lines of $1,000 or less.
> >
>
>  Interesting... I thought I read about that guy before and that his total
> system costs were closer to $500,000, not $50,000.  Maybe it's a different
> guy doing the exact same thing.
>
>  In any event, I can't imagine that any non-toy system could be made for
> under $1000.  Each of the components necessary are typically pretty
> expensive.  A solar system approaching the kilowatt range (less isn't very
> useful except for playing around) is in the multi-thousands by itself.
> Electrolysis machines aren't cheap, either.  And what about storing the
> hydrogen?  That's going to take some huge tanks unless you have even more
> (expensive) specialized equipment.
>
>  All that said, if you can figure out an inexpensive way to do it, I would
> absolutely love to hear about it!  I've been researching alternative energy
> solutions lately and am only recently getting over the initial shock of
> finding out just how expensive they all are.
>
>
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