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Towing Scam | 08-04-2008 - Hydrogen / Water Conversion With high gas prices these days, it's peaked my interest in reading about Hydrogen and Electrolosys. On wikipedia it states: Hydrogen has been called the least efficient and most expensive possible replacement for gasoline (petrol). This typically made sense til I started doing the calculations. I found a briefcase solar panel over at ebay for roughly $80. It was 13 Watts at 12 Volts that roughly gives you 1 Amp. Now at google answers it states: 16.5 Kwatt-hours of energy are needed to convert 1 gallon of water to hydrogen. Here's where it gets a little dicey. Back at google answers it also states: The approximate amount of hydrogen produced from one gallon of water (at 1 atmosphere pressure and at 32 degrees Fahrenheit) is 1250 gallons. Did I read that right? 1250 gallons of Hydrogen from 1 gallon of water? It would take us a whole year to use 1250 gallons of gas in a car. Let's rewind for a second and say we only want one gallon of hydrogen. That would be 16.5 Kwatt-hours / 1250 = 13.2 Watts. If our data is correct, then our 13 Watt briefcase solar panel could make us 1 gallon of hydrogen per hour. I'm sure there has got to be something wrong in my data, but it sure does make one speculate. (2) Comments
(2:17 pm) 08-08-2008
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