How about some Guerilla "gas"? [RE-wrenches]

[Joel Davidson]

When I lived in Arkansas, the price of bottled gas went from $0.06/gal in
1972 to $0.70/gal in 1974 thanks to the first oil embargo so I made a
batch of methane and burned it on a regular stove burner. I was impressed
by the heat from the nearly invisible flame, but I didn't handle enough
manure on my little horse and mule farm to justify building a big digestor
even though the poop was free

But using expensive PV to make hydrogen is another story. Perhaps a Home
Power tinkerer with a PV powered hydrogen separator or someone at the
Schatz Energy Research Center at Humbolt State University can can report
the practical use of homemade hydrogen (hint).

"Bob-O Schultze, Electron Connection" wrote:

> Joe and All,
> Agreed. A well designed off-grid PV system will have power to spare
> at least a few months out of the year in most places. Turning it away
> with a series CC like we mostly do, is just goofy. What I'D like to
> see, however, is a way to burn that PV generated hydrogen instead of
> propane directly in my cooking stove, on demand water heater, and
> clothes dryer!
> Bob-O
>
> >I'm ready for affordable residential scale hydrogen electrolyzers
> >and storage that can be used in conjunction with shunt charge
> >controllers. Store excess PV energy generated during the summer as
> >hydrogen, and power a fuel cell to charge batteries in the winter.
> >Long term storage. It'll be the end of fossil fuels in off-grid
> >electrical systems.
> >
> >Excellent!
> >
> >Joe
>
> --
> Bob-O Schultze, Electron Connection
> PO Box 203, Hornbrook, CA 96044
> 800.945.7587 or 530.475.3402
> fax 530-475-3401
> www.electronconnection.com
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