Starman
09-03-2008, 10:32 PM
Greetings -- new guy here with a few questions. Been following the general discussion of "HHO" for a couple weeks now as I have an application in mind that needs just the Hydrogen, not the mix of HH and OO [yeah, feeding it back into a conventional fuel cell...]
this verges on the whole "over unity" thing, i.e., it might take "x" amount of power to get the hydrogen out of the water, but when that gets fed into a fuel cell I get "x+y" amount of power back out -- I really don't think that will happen, in fact I believe I'll actually get "x-y" out, so I want to minimize "y".
what I truly envision is an at-home electrolysis station that extracts the hydrogen that I can tank up and put in my car, and run the car on a regular fuel cell to get about town and such. [in other words, I'll be using the hydrogen as a battery...]
So, with that in mind, what methods are there for getting "just" the hydrogen out, or at least separating the gasses economically enough that this makes sense?
this verges on the whole "over unity" thing, i.e., it might take "x" amount of power to get the hydrogen out of the water, but when that gets fed into a fuel cell I get "x+y" amount of power back out -- I really don't think that will happen, in fact I believe I'll actually get "x-y" out, so I want to minimize "y".
what I truly envision is an at-home electrolysis station that extracts the hydrogen that I can tank up and put in my car, and run the car on a regular fuel cell to get about town and such. [in other words, I'll be using the hydrogen as a battery...]
So, with that in mind, what methods are there for getting "just" the hydrogen out, or at least separating the gasses economically enough that this makes sense?