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 th...
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.
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that little solar thing in the beginning made me think...why not make wind turbines with solar panels for that extra little energy, that is if cost did not outweigh the amount needed?
But the other way is to keep using oil and fossil fuel to it runs out, or gets more expensive and not care, as it suites us at the moment. Personally I find that raver short sighted, plus a tad selfish as well. People might not care, but you usally find, later or sooner, that crap starts to hit the fan. Alternative fuels could later on lead to cheaper fuel, less enviromental problems and a country been more independent for it self, there well worth developing :).
Not yet, but things do decrease in cost as time goes by. I was not talking about the near future, but more as the far future. Plus I feel as rich countrys, we should have a dutie of helping the poorer countrys, first it's the right thing to do, plus by helping others, it does come back in a loop and help you as well, (if I need to feed people selfish desires as well), if you think logically and unemotionally about it. Personally, I'm totaly for any development in allternative energy.
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