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Homemade Hydrogen -- The Storage Challenge

By Ben Mester

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Published: 30Dec2009
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Homemade hydrogen is probably the best form of energy there is. It's free, completely accessible, and takes only the simple process of electrolysis to create, which is little more than sticking a live electrical wire into a cup of water. There's no need to drill deep into the earth and transport oil and natural gas across hundreds of miles. You can make homemade hydrogen simply and easily on your own. Stainless steel hydrogen generators are becoming very cheap and cost effective. So what's the problem then?

Storage is the problem. Creating homemade hydrogen is easy. Actually storing it and pressurizing it into a usable fashion is another story. Stations that drill and harvest oil and natural gas have huge amounts of heavy machinery that can both collect the contents, process them, and then store them for shipping and use. That way, once the natural gas arrives at your home, it's already waiting in a usable fashion.

Homemade hydrogen is quite the opposite. Once the gas is created, it begins to immediately mingle with air and quickly loses its capacity. Unless a device can both create and properly store the homemade hydrogen for use, it becomes something of a wasted endeavor. I am not aware of any such personal system that both creates hydrogen gas, and then pressurizes and stores it in a tank for later use. I'm sure that someone has come up with such a system, but I'm also equally sure that such a system is probably overly expensive.

The one huge advantage of large industry is that costs are drastically cut when heavy machinery and dedicated systems are implemented to streamline a process. The biggest downfall of homemade and personal systems is that they're often expensive to utilize. Homemade hydrogen is no exception. While I would love to see everyone on the planet both creating and using their own hydrogen energy, I haven't seen anything yet that's compelling and efficient enough to make it worth a person's while to install.

But the technology is getting better everyday, and in the field of green technology, I have seen people get very creative. I'm very eager and looking forward to seeing what interesting innovations people are going to come up with in the field of homemade hydrogen for personal use. I'm sure they're constantly pushing the envelop to see what different things can be done. Hydrogen is just such a perfect energy source. It's highly combustible, easy to create, clean burning, and very abundant. Why go to the depths of the earth for energy, harvesting it with heavy machinery, and transporting it across whole countries, when a clean burning highly combustible energy source lays right at the fingertips of all.

I'm going to continue to do research on hydrogen storage. It may just be that a viable system already exists, and I just haven't found it yet. Either way, whether a usable system exists or not, it's definitely on its way and ready to show up when the mass population gets desperate enough for alternative energy sources. I just hope it's not too far off.

I hope you enjoyed this article about homemade hydrogen and the storage issues that coincide with this kind of green technology.

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