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Motown_Johnny

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18. The question is, where do you get the hydrogen?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #3)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 02:34 AM

Dec 2011

If you get it by running an electric current through water to separate it into H and O2 then you are actually using more energy than you would by simply running the device on electricity.

If you get it from natural gas then you may as well be running your fuel cell on natural gas. It would be more efficient than separating out the Hydrogen first.

I like the idea of fuel cells, to bad it all looks like a bait and switch for natural gas.

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Oh fully agree... nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #2

wise man. this has been a lament of my misbegotten life. marasinghe Dec 2011 #14

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Eminently, I'd say. nt onehandle Dec 2011 #8

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Well it's about time! Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2011 #23

I'll see your "watch-phone" and raise you SomethingFishy Dec 2011 #42

Nothing quite this revolutionary at the show nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #7

The question is, where do you get the hydrogen? Motown_Johnny Dec 2011 #18

My flying car would beg to differ. Muskypundit Dec 2011 #5

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Not yet, but I am sure somebody is working on it nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #9

Sure... Bob Wallace Dec 2011 #20

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With the ammount of computer controls nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #13

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Not quite nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #33

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So I am baffled by your use of the term nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #41

Considering zabet Dec 2011 #11

In the modern day nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #12

Did you see any fuel cell vehicles? Motown_Johnny Dec 2011 #16

No, no fuel cells nadinbrzezinski Dec 2011 #17

MPGe has been around a little while Motown_Johnny Dec 2011 #19

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