1 Megawatt Fuel Cell Power Plant

This is a video of a 1 megawatt Fuel Cell Power Plant at California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles, CA. The power plant has a reformer that separates hydrogen from natural gas and then feeds the hydrogen into a fuel cell, generating electricity. The plant also recovers the heat generated and uses it for domestic heating on campus. In the future, some of the carbon emitted will be sequestered in a sub-tropical rainforest that is under construction.

While at present this power plant still uses fossil fuels (the natural gas is needed in order to extract the hydrogen from it), in the future the hydrogen will be generated either from landfill gas, or else it will be electrolyzed using wind, solar, geothermal, wave or hydroelectric energy. What is most important and exciting about this plant is the fact that it is using fuel cells--touted to be the future of electricity generation--today, and they are working seamlessly on a large scale.

For more information, go to andyposner.org/videofuelcell

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[datzfast]

talk about shitting your money away, large power plants loose 30 percent just in transmission losses. Put a fuel cell in my house please.

[TenorKid3]

his voice soo doesn't match his body

[adam3176]

Global warming is a Huge Issue because they Keep Pounding it into your head untill it becomes FACT.. Agian its about Energy Control Of the people of the world.. Green enerrgy is a Cover For a Global Energy SWIPE by the ELITE.. Billions will end up dieing. because everyone is going along with it

[ChimpFromSpace]

@ChimpFromSpace I work for them lol

[DrTurf83]

@SaveAmericaFightNWO

calling these people idiots is simply inappropriate and incorrect.

[DrTurf83]

@SaveAmericaFightNWO

The difference lies in where the energy is actually coming from. Natural gas is a fuel, and can be used directly to produce power in a high temperature fuel cell. Water is not a fuel; however, energy can be stored using water and electrolysis by making hydrogen gas. The problem is that you need to input energy in order to use water. You do not need to do this with natural gas.

[SaveAmericaFightNWO]

@DrTurf83 I do clearly know what I'm talking about. You obviously do not know what I'm talking about.. HHO.. brown's gas...and you stated what I meant.. ."Splitting water by electrolysis also produces hydrogen. The fuel is the same, the source is different." That is what I just said, so you got it, but didn't get it? So why argue to agree?

[DrTurf83]

@SaveAmericaFightNWO

You clearly don't know what you're talking about. The natural gas was converted into hydrogen. Splitting water by electrolysis also produces hydrogen. The fuel is the same, the source is different.

[DrTurf83]

@abobjenkins

They used natural gas and reformed it internally, so it is likely a SOFC and not a PEMFC. 700 ºF is too cold for an SOFC to operate (typically, they run around 700-1000 ºC).

[abobjenkins]

@ChimpFromSpace how do you know that. he never gave units.

[SaveAmericaFightNWO]

ran off natural gas???? Idiots! Use water! Split the molecule!

[barmyflash]

@jlm993 Yes