Re: Solid oxide fuel cell car?

dangerdoc wrote:
I am the original poster.

The CO and H2 is coming from gassification of biomass.

How much energy does it cost to gasify biomass? How much does the biomass cost to produce? I seem to recall a plan to produce oil from "useless" turkey carcasses... Then once the supplier found out they weren't "useless", the costs went up drastically.


The CO is "reformed" into more H2 using petrochemical terminolgy.

Producing the H2 on board is better than conventional batteries because
you can fill a tank with fuel drive 500 miles and refil the tank as
needed. Conventional batteries are expensive, low capacity, slow to
recharge and have a limitted life.

How fast do you think you can convert biomass to H2 and CO? Can I get a couple kilo's and drive away immediately?
So how much cheaper are these fuel cells? What is their duty cycle? Do the safety issues around hydrogen outweigh other solutions?


Just because you 'can' do something, doesn't mean you should.

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