Hydrogen Fuel Production
Alternatives At Home
There's no question that one of the most
promising
alternative fuels we
have
before us today is hydrogen. The reason hydrogen fuel is
so
popular as an alternative to gasoline is that it can be made
right here - at home - in the United States of
America.
When talking about alternative fuel technology,
it
doesn’t often occur to people that they might actually be
able to
make their own homemade
hydrogen fuel from simple water as part of their choice to
switch to an alternative fuel.
Hydrogen fuel cars eventually will eliminate U.S.
dependence on foreign oil. But automakers say it could be 10
years or more before they can produce hydrogen-powered vehicles for the
masses.
A company called Water4Gas
says it can speed the process. It has published an extensive web site
that offers to teach how-to-do-it conversions of ordinary vehicles.
It also states that it has hydrogen conversion kits
for
"individual owners to adapt their gasoline or diesel burning vehicles
to burn hydrogen."
Hydrogen doesn’t exist on Earth as a
gas. It
must be separated from other elements through a process called electrolysis.
No, we’re not talking about hair removal; we’re
talking
about removing the gas that is hydrogen from water so that it can be a
viable alternative fuel that can be produced safely and easily.
This is precisely what the Water4Gas
process does by reducing water (H2O) to 2 parts hydrogen (instead of
2 parts hydrogen PLUS the 1 part oxygen.
For those who are not mechanically inclined, it's
probably best to
leave conversions to a mechanic. But that doesn't deny the
fact that
more and more innovations are constantly being developed to reduce our
economic dependence on the greed of the oil barons.
Steam reforming is currently the least expensive commercial method of producing
hydrogen and accounts for about 95
percent of the hydrogen produced in the United States. It is used in
industries to separate hydrogen atoms from carbon atoms in methane.
But, because methane is a fossil fuel, the process of steam reforming
results in greenhouse gas emissions that are linked with global warming.
Right now, extracting hydrogen from water on a
large scale
in order to get an alternative hydrogen fuel is a very
expensive process. Companies, however, are doing it en masse
on
sites all over the country. Hydrogen can be produced at large
central facilities or at small plants for local use. Every region of
the country (and the world for that matter) has some resource that can
be used to make hydrogen. Its flexibility is one of its main advantages.
NASA has known this for
years. They have
their own
on-site facility to produce hydrogen fuel that is used to power rocket
ships and has been used for years. Now that America is
looking to
hydrogen fuel as an alternative to gasoline, companies are finding many
new ways to produce the gas and make it safe to manufacture as
well as to use!
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