Comments on: Honda Unveils a Home Solar Hydrogen-Producing Station

By: rex

rex — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:11:45 +0000

This is a positive thing, a positive step forward. I thought bullshit had only one common scent. Does this mean that commentor number 1 roams from pasture to pasture eating bullshit.

By: Max Palumbo

Max Palumbo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:45:22 +0000

@Gunnar What it means is that the station will use grid energy overnight, and then, during the day, pump electricity back into the grid. Duh.

By: crazy man

crazy man — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:38:47 +0000

I agree with #1.

This takes a perfectly good hydrogen car and saddles it with all the faults of an inefficient battery car!

Methinks its a form of FUD to burden the superior hydrogen technology because it makes battery cars look like doggie-do.

By: Gunnar Tveiten

Gunnar Tveiten — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:36:17 +0000

This reeks several flavors of bullshit. First, whoever comes up with an “solar overnight” hydrogen-producers ? We all know that there’s just a BUNCH of solar energy around at NIGHT, right people ?

Second, commuting 10000 miles is about 50 miles every workday, for 50 miles, a typical vehicle needs on the order of 1.5 gallons of petrol, or a equivalent amount of hydrogen. The depicted design has around 3 square meters of solar collectors, which is insufficient to capture the amount of energy required.

Third, it’s not the storage that costs energy, it’s the compression and cooling. But guess what, even if you pumpt the produced hydrogen directly into the storage-tank of the vehicle, you STILL need to spend precisely the same amount of energy compressing it.

In short, if this isn’t a joke, it’s atleast made by someone without even rudimentary engineering-knowledge.