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To overcome the problem of distribution infrastructure, why not build small device for extracting hydrogen?
I think a unit small enough to be in or near your garage. Kind of a "hydrogen plant staff" which would need only produce enough for family use. It could be powered by solar and wind make it profitable, although the initial investment was quite high. Anyone seen anything like this being developed?
Besides the economy problem of scale with a house-sized unit, you have the obvious problem of what to do with hydrogen, once you have created. I suppose you intend to use electricity to split water (I make this assumption based Your use of solar and wind as power source). Be aware that it takes a lot of power to perform this operation. ********** In fact, the rest of my answer is moot – Based on the fact that you have already generated electricity, we have a much more efficient storage and use of electricity directly without going through the conversion of hydrogen cracking! So while the idea is "interesting", it is not effective. Systems such as Honda (below) * * large energy losses associated with their production of hydrogen. Storage of energy would initially be more meaningful. Heck, generate enough electricity your wind / solar and you can sell any surplus to the grid! Note: no one believes an efficiency of over 40% is physically possible for energy Solar> Hydrogen Production (*** best current technology, it has around 13 %***). For most purposes, the storage is direct electrical a much more intelligent. There must be an overriding major hydrogen instead of using electrical energy stored for this type of design to be of value. ********** Hydrogen gas is not dense enough to be useful. You'll need to compress develop sufficient pressure to store and use it to heat the house and would need to cool it enough to use to fill a tank to run a car (you'd better pull its hydrogen from a fuel cell for the latter). Both take a fair bit of electricity to accomplish. Big problem effectively. More energy used than jobs created. Again, you are better to store and use the electricity that you started with. There is the obvious technology security issues related to production and pressurization hydrogen forming an unlikely candidate for "consumption" at the moment.
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