Re: Solar-hydrogen home power system?

From: Robert Morein (nowhere_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:31:20 -0400

"Don Lancaster" <don@tinaja.com> wrote in message
news:41731A97.1595A9EC@tinaja.com...
> Glenn Martin wrote:
> >
> > "Don Lancaster" <don@tinaja.com> wrote in message
> > news:4172DB18.722DAB97@tinaja.com...
> > >
> > > Solar pv electricity is ridiculously too valuable to waste on hydrogen
> > > generation.
> > > The system would be a net energy sink and a net destroyer of gasoline.
> > >
> > > See http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf
> > >
> >
> > Don, I'm confused here. Surely a method of storing excess power
> > generation makes more sense than letting the daylight go to waste.
>
> Not when most of the value of the excess power is instantly destroyed,
> as irrevocably happens during electrolysis.
>
Generally true, but the future holds promise of the reversible fuel cell:
http://www.fuelcellknowledge.org/related_technologies/the_big_picture.html
http://www.llnl.gov/str/Mitlit.html