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Perry
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Hello all,
Before I had this crazy wind turbine hobby I worked with hydrogen fuel cells. I built this 50 sq cm test fixture as part of a bipolar plate optimization project, Thought I would pass it along.
Perry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA0y85Urttc
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Very clever Perry.
Nice work too.
What did you do with it in the end, Did you take the work any further.
Pete.
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Hey Pete,
I got out of fuel cells as a career about 4 years ago. I just found the fixture in the closet and made that video. It was from the heady days of a research budget and it cost about $3k to make.
I made it to evaluate different MEA's and composite bipolar plate material. We had an awesome staffed CNC machine shop and I could just design things in CAD and have them made.
Maybe there will be a future for fuel cells but they will have to find a way to cheaply create hydrogen first.
Perry
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nice
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I suspect that the technology is there to make hydrogen from wind power, at the source, and pipe hydrogen, instead of electricity. Hydrogen can be stored in conventional pressure vessels, or reticulated to fuel outlets in the cities. The base load problem would be eliminated, with a storage that did not age like a battery, or the grid with no real storage.
I suppose we need to lobby the local member of parliament to get the wheels to turn.
Gordon.
PS:- Oztules could add making and storing hydrogen to his to do list.
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I do like the idea of hydrogen but also find it strange that we look towards a source that is becomming scarce in many parts of the world to.
It would seem water is becoming a sort after commodity without being the next fuel source as well.
As the air becomes more polluted in coming years it might be we are more interested in the oxygen than the hydrogen.
Pete.
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