Homemade hydrogen is one of the best, most accessible, free forms of energy that exists. It costs very little in materials and production, and takes only a simple process, electrolysis, for it's creation, which involves little more than a copper wire, electricity, and a glass of water. With homemade hydrogen, you eliminate the need to drill deep into the Earth for natural gas, and then transport your product over many hundreds of miles. Homemade hydrogen can be made...at home. It's very simple, and stainless steel generators are continuing to get cheaper and more cost effective. It sounds perfect right? What's the catch?
Storage is the problem. The creation of 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 positive that someone out there has already created such a system, but I'm also quite sure that this same system isn't cost effective or feasible for the average person.
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. Though I would definitely love to see more and more people both making and using their own hydrogen energy, I haven't yet seen something that's compelling and cost effective enough to entice the average citizen to install it.
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 should we scour the depths of the world for our energy, using heavy machinery to both harvest and transport it across whole countries and continents, when a clean burning, almost free, highly combustible energy source is right in front of us.
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. In either case, whether the viable system exists or not, one is definitely due to arrive once the average citizen finally gets tired enough of traditional energy sources. I just hope it's not too far off.
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