Your Questions About Solar Energy Generator Price

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They already are, the Honda FCX and Toyota FCHV are both available for lease in some areas. The price for either car is probably prohibitively expensive which is why they’re only for lease, the fuel cell itself is very costly.

Right now, the hydrogen fuel cell is a poor idea for cars for the simple reason that it always requires more energy to separate it from whatever it’s bonded to than you can get back out by utilizing it. There are ways to make it more efficient but it’s still a losing proposition. As an energy storage medium it’s not efficient enough. Until we can use it in a fusion reactor it’s not likely to become our energy source whether it’s reformed from natural gas, made via electrolysis or by catalyzing metals. It’s just more efficient to use the energy directly instead of making the hydrogen and then either burning it or using it in a fuel cell.

Batteries or capacitors are better means of storing electricity and that electricity can be produced using a variety of renewable sources – with smart investment we could change to renewable power generation and electric cars within a few years.

I could be proven wrong of course, Honda is going ahead with it’s plans for the CVX and Toyota is doing the same. I do like the possibility of home charging and you can use the generator to power your home in the event of a power outage, as long as you continue to get natural gas supplied. But natural gas reformed into hydrogen isn’t terribly efficient and still relies on the fossil fuel model with associated problems.

If you use a high-efficiency method like QSI Nano claims to have developed and pair it with solar thermal tech then you may have a winner. This is even more true if the work by the Weizmann Institute proves practical, see http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/04/weizmann-institute-scientists-demonstrate-novel-approach-for-splitting-water-into-hydrogen-and-oxyge.html#comments

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No but you should look into solar, I read awhile back that they were working on some type of generator for RV’s and they did come out with some green RV but the price was around $200.000………..