Toyota's new Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car will be able to power a house

[pcosmar]

^^ That can make a lot of Hydrogen.

So can this,,

All you have to do is harness it.

I am glad to see Hydrogen finally be taken seriously.
whether fuel cells or by combustion,, it has a lot of potential.

 

[steph3n]

Fuel cells are still a myth.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Nice, but it’s not an energy source! It's not even magical, like Flubber.

The efficiency of each step in the entire system must be evaluated...

I hope it proves to be better than the existing system (extract crude oil from
the ground, refine it into gasoline, fill up the fuel tank, start up the engine
and drive the car away).

Eventually we will run out of countries to invade, economically viable oil
to extract and breathable air. Nuclear power to hydrogen should be
sustainable ('till meltdown or waste produced by the nuke power plants
wipes out too many neighbors).

Hydrogen looks like a "clean" way to run the car engine. How it's produced
is the bigger unanswered question. Is it efficient enough?

For now, it simply comes down to dollars. Even evaluating efficiency gets
mucked up by government subsidies where true cost and efficiency is obscured.



If there's a way to "crack" water using only home solar power panels, that's
fantastic! It's unlikely those solar panels will "charg 'er up overnight, lol.

Neither of these three vehicles have batteries, so they do not take a charge at all. Only compressed Hydrogen. This home solar plant maked 30 miles worth of hydrogen per day. So you need about 10 days of processing to make a full tank of hydrogen for 300 miles of travel.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Fuel cells are still a myth.

My roommate runs around with a myth in the back of his daily driver holding fuel to be pumped out to his motor, a 1986 RWD Toyota Corolla...

ETA - in fact, this is the precise model of fuel cell he is using:

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-290111can?seid=srese1&gclid=CNHTjufC7b0CFeMSOgod0nwAIA

Apparently Summit Racing makes a lot of money selling myths, and quite a few racers actually win their races with myth as their gas tank.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Shit,, I have wanted to see it since the 70s..

I will love to see fuel stations (which I don't yet). My wife loves Toyotas. And I have had good experiences with them.

Damn shame Detroit couldn't do it 20 years ago.

I've always been a big Honda fan, although this thing Toyota has to 'run your house' for a few hours in the event of a power failure is kinda cool. If yhe price-point is good enough, I'd consider making one of these my work truck, though i might have to lean towards the Hyundai since they are the ones making a "truckish" model, and I have to carry a 12' ladder.