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.