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  • I would recommend either a Direct methanol fuel cell or a biofuel/ethenol hybrids fuel cell engines due to their production methods for the fuel source of these fuel cell engines would be readily available and be more logistical in the long run.

  • Transforming H2  into electricity is 50% less efficient than just burning it. It is a waste of hydrogen.

  • Anyways i was a little surprized that the ex president of ballard power ran off to pakistan with the money he recieved from ballard right when it became obvios that it couldnt work. So basicly muslim dude earns millions of dollars in north america, by decieving us, then takes off to a muslim country. Gee i wonder why people dont like muslims

  • Hydrogen is common on earth but its contained in things like water or the air, and to seperate them it costs way more energy than you could ever get back. But thats not the only problem, to transport hydrogen to and from fueling facilities will cost more energy than the fuel will provide for you. Containing Hydrogen is anouther problem, as it is the smallest element it can leak thru anything, thats why helium or hydrogen ballons get smaller over time. Odd that no one mentioned it.

  • I once met firoz rasul who was the president of ballard power. He is a Muslim , which surprized me. Anyhow, i had the opertunity to ask why there was no hydrogen highway or why there was no hydrogen ecconomy. He tried to blame it on the US.

    Oddly that surprized me, so i looked in to it. No the USA funded the fuel cell, it was Ballard who lied and acted as if it would be easy to get hydrogen for these cars. Hydrogen is expencive, it costs more energy to make it than you can get back from it.

  • @derrazkhalid You don't need Platinum electrodes. Platinum is more convenient and less hazardous to use as it's decay rate is so slow but it's not a necessity. 216 Steel will do nicely. Just dispose of the waste water responsibly.

  • We can all manufacture Hydrogen at our own homes! It's the pressurizing of it into tanks to run our cars that's stopping us from having our own home fueling stations!

  • @Itsmeeman1 and i suppose you have enoug h platinium for the electrodes ?

  • Thanks Oslo. Our Norwegian friends have decided that Ballard is good for their environment too.

    E-T

  • @etellurian Yes, maby we will integrate this with GTL - technology, then it looks really promising!

  • Much like Ford when he mass produced the first automobile ... Volume is needed to bring the cost down. We can manufacture hydrogen at sea. This will bring the cost of the fuel down. International water belongs to all people and offers a place to build such facilities to supply the globe.

    E-T

  • I have always wondered how it works and now I know what scientists have been doing for the last few years lol. I just don't understand if it's so efficient why isn't it world wide already is it because he components are to expensive??

  • Well a new year has begun and what have we done? Perhaps this will be the year that we put more thought into manufacturing hydrogen at sea. Please share your thoughts too.

    E-T

  • this kind of stuff is so interesting and useful i always thought of using hydrogen as a fuel source but never knew that it would be used in an non combustion way i would love to be able to make one of these for means of transportation on land if you have any tips on how i can begin making the PEM itself please share with me.

  • If anyone has a suggestion of youTube videos that would be suited to discussing hydrogen manufacturing at sea please share. The sooner we get this started the sooner hydrogen fuel cells can fulfill their purpose.

    E-T

  • @RCaseySantaAna great thanks as soon as i have some time i'll give it a go. What do you think of making hydrogen at sea?

    E-T

  • There is a problem of a 'silent' car. This could be a danger to those walking or riding bicycles/mopeds/etc. Of course, this could be eliminated by simply putting a 'sound maker' connected to the electrical system... I only bring this up because there has already been talk of forcing this on hybrids such as the Prius and full electric vehicles.

  • @notengo24 you make a good point and offer a viable solution. Perhaps something that can be turned on and off. For driving in open areas with wildness devices exist that make an audible sound that animals can hear offering safety in such conditions too.

    E-T

  • Blimps could be used to fill commercial hydrogen fuel tanks too. A team on the ground follows the blimps and helps fuel the commercial hydrogen fuel tanks. Please share your thought too.

    E-T

  • Any feedback? Will this help the fuel cell industry by offering the hydrogen fuel needed to make such innovation viable? Do you need large quantities of hydrogen for hydrogen fuel cell cars? Will international waters offer the space to make such quantities of hydrogen safely in a timely manner? How long will the wait be to have an abundance of hydrogen fuel? Now that we have the hydrogen fuel we need the hydrogen fueling stations. Perhaps people can fuel up from home. Could blimps help?

  • Well 2011 is nearing and we need more peaceful work. It is nice to help others. Building a hydrogen fuel facility will offer work and sustainable peace on our planet. If we have the revenue to bring peace to a region we have the revenue to build hydrogen fuel facilities at sea. Technology that can sustain energy needs in regions surrounded by sea will offer such nations an energy choice too. There is an energy solution for everyone. Oil is a choice why not hydrogen made at sea?

    E-T

  • To have hydrogen cars now will require the fuel to operate such choices. Facilities at sea will have unlimited access to water, electricity and transportation. Mass production of Hydrogen will help bring the cost to that of fossil fuel.

    E-T

  • The petroleum industry has been the cause of a war and major environmental disaster. They have enough issues with their industry. A hydrogen fuel industry has as much right to be a choice as oil. Creating an energy portfolio that trades all energy including oil will assure people will have the freedom to choose any energy desired.

    E-T

  • The freedom of North America is not for sale. By allowing any entity to compromise our freedom to innovate should be an act of treason. If a group can build a petroleum industry so to can a group build a hydrogen industry with the same freedom. International water is out of political reach.

    E-T

  • The Ban on H2 Fuel cell Cars until the year 2015 has been forced on us by the Petroleum Industry.

    When 2015 rolls around the Petroleum lobby hopes to extend the moratorium until 2025.

    It may take Anti-Trust Action to allow Alternative Fueled Vehicles to be SOLD in the United States.

    In the mean time, only limited lease programs will be allowed.

    Fight back, join us at facebook group number 172387699014

    group name: hydrogen cars now

  • Trucks transporting hydrogen on land would use hydrogen fuel further adding green credits for trade. The volume of hydrogen being used by blimps and trucks will help reduce the cost of hydrogen to the consumer via green credits (fossil fuel emission credits traded to other countries still using fossil fuel). Hydrogen facility(s) at sea in international water can trade with the planet.

  • Transportation costs would be less as the blimps would use hydrogen fuel. This will help reduce the cost of hydrogen to the consumer and better for the environment for those concerned with carbon foot prints. The facility could trade in green credits to nations with high carbon emissions. This will also reduce the cost of hydrogen to the consumer.

  • Hydrogen transportation over water via blimps is far safer than manufacturing hydrogen on land and transporting over land. Pirates can't get a blimp, offering a safer way of transporting hydrogen from sea to the at shore hydrogen storage facilities. Hydrogen could also be stored at sea limiting exposure on land. International waters do not require permission to build such facilities saving time on all the land issues associated with building such facilities.

  • The cost of oil drilling and exploration does not keep the fossil fuel companies from producing oil. The R&D to build a hydrogen fuel facility at sea utilizing blimps for transport of the hydrogen is a cost to hydrogen fuel as drilling and exploration of oil is to the fossil fuel companies. Is it more expensive? It could be , the alternative would be having no carbon and nuclear neutral energy to replace oil. Though over time the cost would come down. Sustainable energy without wars.

  • New job creation must be at the same rate that jobs are off shored to other countries. Some statistics are 1-4% job loss to off shoring and growing. So we need to have at least 1-4% job creation to assure we keep people employed and earning a sustainable income. Building operating and maintaining hydrogen facilities at sea will offer sustainable jobs that assure fuel cell technology can be a viable choice.  It great to have hydrogen fuel cell technology we need the fuel too.

  • Fossil fuel will be gone in the future. It is logical to build replacements for fossil fuel before it runs out. Energy innovation will go on as long as people are free to think and innovate. Hydrogen made at see has access to water and electricity and safe transportation. It can be one of the sustainable energy choices in the future. Many jobs will be created to replace the jobs we are losing to off shore competition.

    E-T

  • All great ideas, but just like all renewable energy sources, they are too expensive to produce and maintain compared to fossil fuels. Then there's the consumer base as well, all consumers use energy that was acquired from fossil fuels and where consumers are, there's always money. ALL renewable energy sources have a very small consumer base = small profit / high cost = very slow or no progress for renewable energy.

  • Now that we have the technology we need the fuel. I was thinking about building a hydrogen facility at sea utilizing solar, wave and wind to make the electricity to make the hydrogen. The fuel could then be shipped via blimp to the mainland. Please share your thoughts too

    E-T

  • hydrogen production tru hho cell its clean energy from water

  • @philippineagles actually, it's not from water...it's from methane, and the process of production of H2 from methane produces CO2. so it's not exactly "clean"...

  • Hydrogen isn't the future, Pulse Diode Cells are.

  • will the concept be commercially viable and is it highly stable?

  • @eguiat

    Its concept is a cylinder that captures a potential current of energy that is shot and stored into the electromagnetic chamber. As the current is stored, the potential energy charges and becomes greater. The energy can be distributed through any load and operate normally within an infinite time span.

    That's a basic understanding of what PDCs are. Economy of the cell is up to the government, and a unit is always stable as long as its depositing energy.

  • @Mister86Productions there is no future energy, there is just alternative energy...nothing is going to substitute anything completly

  • this is fine..and a great concept.. however we need to first become efficient at the production of hydrogen for it this concept to be commercially viable.

    Another issue is the amount of energy needed to transform water into hydrogen or to mine for hydrogen trapped in air pockets underground. where is this energy coming from? how clean is that energy?.. no to mention enviro production of these cars...

  • Hydrogen is easily produce through Sea water electrolysis. The usual set up is, Windmill near the shore shocks sea water. Water is seperated when current is run through to H20--> H2 + 0 . The production of these cars might not be as clean as making a normal car but running a normal car for 10+ years is surely worse in the long run. (don't quote me) lol

  • ballard is not the future...yet. its okay, believe with me. better move to consumer electronics products and not automobiles.

  • theres no money to make in the fuel cell industry at least for the next 30 years..the market is not there. fuel cell energy is the most expensive alternative energy.....ballard power may have a bright future though if it can sustain another 30 years of loosing money...

  • Hydrogen Powered Vehicles....Hmmmm....Where have I heard of this before?!? OOOOOH....That's Tight, Maybe the Hindenberg  F-Ing Disaster.....

  • dude u do realize if hydrogen goes domestic the system needs to meet extreamly high standards, the Hindenburg is a big blimp, blimps aren't known for their safety. and btw no one died from the actual fire, the only reason why so many people died was because they either jumped off the blimp or were crushed my scaffolding

  • The Hindenburg burned because its fabric skin was doped with nitrocellulose, aka guncotton. If hydrogen was solely to blame, the flames would have gone up,

    not out into the envelope.

  • and thermite in its coat of paint.

  • Finely divided -- aka pyro grade -- aluminum. Ever lit a magnesium ribbon? Aluminum burns almost as

    easily.

  • so you think gasoline doesn´t burn?

  • actually getting the hydrogen generation isn't as big of a problem as the storage of the hydrogen. I'll have done a few class projects on fuel cell before, currently taking a course on fuel cell, and will be researching on fuel cell starting next semester. Hopefully we can achieve something useful. The professor's lab works with GM, so may be something even commercial scale can be achieved.

  • Only one problem, it takes alot of energy to split water. hydrogen is an energy carrier and it takes more energy to create it than output. Im for green energy, but solar and wind are not enough to create vast amounts of hydrogen, we need something better! like a nuclear plant. For those who slept through school, hydrogen is 14 times lighter than air, so no it will not blow up like a hydrogen bomb.

  • Agree with You. But! There are ways to produce more energy out of water only not relised yet.

  • rems025

    it doesn't seems as difficult to split water, (possible with 6v and 12v) unless we have to give another name to this discovery gas fuel .

  • i cant really belive biased americans or anyone over 40 who say anything to make people belive global warming isnt happening

  • Nic you are absolutely right about water vapor being a greenhouse gas, by far the one that has the most significant climate effect. Also, hydrogen today is extracted from natural gas, by products are carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Electrolysis as suggested requires electricit;y from mainly coal burning plants, fifty percent of U.S. production. This only makes battery based vehicles obsolete before they are even produced.

  • YES. Best explanation of a hydrogen fuel cell, especially from 1:57 onwards. This has helped my understanding of fuel cells so much for school. However, I thought water vapour was a greenhouse gas... ??

  • Ironically the worst green house gas for the planet ......"Oxygen", it corrodes everything on the planet.

  • the main problem of using fuel cell is hydrogen its' self. the hydrogen has to be pure and it difficult to find a very pure hydrogen

  • The cheapest source of Hydrogen and oxygen is water. But splitting them into two is not cheap so far.

  • I beg to differ a zirconia based fuel cell will burn butane, or even natural gas. or methane from the many landfills that are all over the place. I can buy natural gas at the gas station for 89cents a gallon

  • They need to do research and figure out how a fish's gills splitting the water into oxygen and hydrogen then we could make some huge progress.

  • yes u r right.

  • thanks this was really helpful

  • this video was really heplful. in school i have to do a climate change topic project, and i did hydrogen fuel cells, and i couldnt find a website that told how a HFC worked, and then i found this vid witch was really helpful.

  • ok, i wanted to ask somone who isnt biased , does hydrogen fule actually create more greenhouse gas ? and water is a grrehouse gas but it wouldnt have long term effects like co2 does, it would just rain

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