Archive for July, 2010
In Brief
Plug Power Inc., the Latham fuel cell manufacturer, said company executives will be attending a ribbon cutting next month to celebrate a new fleet of fuel-cell-powered fork lifts at a United Natural Foods distribution center in Sarasota, Fla. Citing “new evidence,” the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is again trying to freeze a trust fund created by McGinn, Smith & Co. founder David …
Published Jul 26, 2010.
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Hydrogen Fuel Cells – Simple Recipe To Make One At Home
Hydrogen fuel cell is another option to alternative fuels for people interested in using alternative fuels but they are not aware of the fact that they will be possible to make it at home soon if they want to do so.These cars will totally wipe out U.S. reliance on foreign oil.Cars will be able to get electricity from the fuel cell which will generate electricity to run them, and result in no pollution and no emissions.
It will take atleast 10 years before the auotomobile industry will be able to supply hydrogen – powered vehicles to the people. According to a company called United Nuclear, the development could be accelerated. In an e-mail they have stated that it would produce hydrogen conversion kits for individual owners of vehicles to convert their gasoline internal combustion engine vehicles to burn hydrogen.
Thus, does it not sound like a dream , that one can get a kit which can enable you to make homemade hydrogen fuel cell.It has taken them years of research and development to be able to master the art of manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells,so one cannot be sure of the quality of the one made at home when compared to what is made by professionals.Hence, even though it sounds alarming it is achievable.
The reason behind this article is not to teach you how to make a great home made hydrogen fuel cell because every Tom, Dick and Harry cannot possibly extract hydrogen from water and so even if you wanted to make the hydrogen fuel cell by yourself it would be difficult to get hydrogen to fuel it and at this point of time there are not many hydrogen filling stations in the vicinity.
It is quite funny to see advertisements from United Nuclear claiming the availability of the homemade hydrogen fuel kits while the CEO claims that there are no kits for sale at present.
In case you are keen on converting your vehicle to run on hydrogen fuel cells you should get a professional to do so rather than than do it yourself with a homemade unit.No doubt it is a great thing to be able to convert to a hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle, since the emissions are only water vapour which is definitely eco-friendly and not any other chemical emission.But installation and making of the homemade hydrogen fuel cell should only be done by professionals.
But if you still want to go ahead, we advice you to do a complete study on how to assemble a hydrogen fuel cell and also work with utmost care and in case you get stuck at somre point just ask the professionals.
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Fuel Cell Fundamentals
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