Comments on: Honda Fuel Cell Manager Dispels Myths

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By: J

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:33:29 +0000

Did you not know it is possible to create hydrogen at your home using natural gas. The better peace about is one by product is heat so you can heat your home, pool, etc. It would be quite simple to create a coil heating system for you home hot water as well or if you prefer introduce a fuel-cell in your home and generate from one source (Natural Gas), all your home and auto needs. This will also be a good product for businesses to have. They will also be able to use the hydrogen to have a backup fuel-cell for mission critical applications and to run their fleet, while reducing heating charges. Why is this not further along and more in the public hands?

A little science project for you as well. Take 2 pieces of graphite (can be found in a pencil) add a small solar panel (or a small battery) using 2 pieces of copper wire. wrap each piece of copper around lower part of the graphite. Put one piece on the negative and one on the positive post. submerge the graphite and wire in salt water. and watch it bubble. One post is Hydrogen the other is oxygen chloride. Again a side effect of the hydrogen created is chlorine.

Picture this on a large scale. Say on the roof you your home. I know it takes more energy to make the hydrogen, but the panels are not easy to transport, where as the hydrogen can be transported.

By: Steve Levy

Steve Levy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:12:57 +0000

From: Steven Levy, 3 Smilax Drive Homosassa, Fl 34446

(**) Phasing in hydrogen fuel cells stations across the country.

If our great nation can put a man on the Moon when they set up a Federally backed program with an objective to accomplish this wonderful task.
Question: why doesn’t the Federal Government set up a program with AUTO Fuel cell makers by setting goals; example May 2009 (TBD) plus (**)? This type of an approach to get fuel cell autos out to the American consumer in a shorter period of time.

(**) Using life cycle milestones and phasing in hydrogen fuel cells stations across the country with consumer incentives to purchase a hydrogen fuel cell auto.

Understanding gas and oil based products due to the very high cost to the American consumer will have a direct impact on there life styles as well as a impact on the middle east, etc.., economy (the Cain reaction to convert to a fuel cell - hydrogen fuel based economy), etc. and hydrogen fuel cost to the consumer should cost considerably less lot less than gas to travel a similar distance (of course the need to incorporate a GPS tracking type of a device for tax purposes).
Hydrogen fuel cells for automobiles would be a viable alternative (if our Federal Government will help the American public buy down the cost of a fuel cell auto to the consumer wishing purchasing a fuel cell auto) this will benefit all of us, our economy and lesson our need on middle eastern oil and perhaps cut back on some of our demands to be there, etc.. Do you think the big oil companies will ever allow this to occur ?

By: chochem7

chochem7 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:04:28 +0000

I have a Civic Hybrid and so far it gives me about 600 miles full tank 12 gallons ( 50 MPG). Have anyone tried using water fuel cells on hybrids yet? How can I double my hybrid miles? Please let me know if someone had tried, then we can talk.
God Bless.........

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:45:55 +0000

Forget the Hydrogen hype: I have your charging solution right here - Interchangeable Battery Packs.

I give you permission to call them "IBP"s.

You drive into the charge station and the battery pack in your car is exchanegd for a nice new charged one (imagine if you can, your pack sits under your passenger area, its removed via a machine), then you are on your way.

Your old battery pack sits and gets charged at the charging station, when its ready to go, another car drops by and loads it up. The charging station stocks several hundred of the packs which are charged via whaterver means you like, solar, wind, water, bio-mass, hamsters, etc.

All these problems are too simple to solve, you just need to think about it.

But really what you need to do is get off your lazy buts and ride a bike...Or move closer to where you work...

Honda should focus on making Affordable safe human powered cars.

SUVs are disgusting dinosaurs sucking up our resources to chauffer pyscho soccer moms and
dysfunctional cowboys.

The only real problem is stupidity, cure that and you will solve all our problems at once.

By: michael maduro

michael maduro — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:43:22 +0000

i think that they should try to make both in the same car and see which one runs the best

By: Todd Rusten

Todd Rusten — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:13:10 +0000

There is a debate about H2 internal combustion vs. H2 fuel cell powered automobiles. Why not make a hybrid that uses both?

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:58:14 +0000

Daniel, While your ideas are great in theory, the details make them impractical. Electrolysis of water (H2O) to make hydrogen (H2) can be done with an electrolyzer (essentially a fuel cell stack), however the speed at which they can produce H2 is determined by the size of the fuel cell stack (the number and size of the catalytic plates). If you look at the amount of energy you need to shed in a short amount of time (Power) to capture regenerative braking, you find that it takes a huge fuel cell stack. These catalytic plates are coated with platinum, therefore, cost minimization requires minimizing the plates.
Perhaps a solution would be to use a battery or ultra-capacitor to capture the regenerative braking energy quickly, then slowly transfer that energy to a smaller electrolyzer. But then one might ask what the benefit of the electrolyzer/fuel cell would be since one could simply use the energy that is stored in the battery /ultra-capacitor.
Note that today's fuel cell cars (such as the FCX) use the smallest fuel cells that they can and use a battery (or ultra-capacitor) to capture the regenerative energy and to provide extra power for acceleration, just like a conventional hybrid.
Your solar cell idea also fails when you see how little energy can be collected from the amount of sunlight that hits an automobile.
Keep up the thoughts though!

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:26:07 +0000

I remember some cars from the seventies that had big rubber pointed bumbers on shocks so you would actually hit simething and not cave in the whole front of the car. With all the delicate electronics on hybrids, why not create a bumber that actually is one? Look at teh nose on the new Honda concept or on most cars today. If you hit something, your car is toast. I had on old Opel 1900 in high school that had better bumbers. Remember, plastic cracks.