The concept is to have a real decent size wind turbine dedicated to powering a hydrogen electolysis unit. I'm thinking that with the right sized
setup you get get at least one good fuel cell fill-up per week.
But I'm more of an electronics oriented guy. I'm conceptual with some of this other stuff, like hydrogen systems. I'm hoping for some feasibility
advice in such a system.
Say you could build a decent sized turbine for roughly $1000, that produces a good solid 2,500kw on average. For this system you wouldnt even need the
battery banks, as the generator power would feed directly into the electrolysis unit at a constant.
So from there it becomes a question of what would be required of the rest of the system, to be able?
I suppose the 2 ordeals are capturing, compressing and storing the hydrogen gas. And then, adapting a vehicle to be able to run it.
But estimating this side of things is where I need help.
For compressing the fuel I'm guessing the right air compressor pump could be outfitted with wind blade power??
I did look arond and find formula for hydrogen electrolysis:
Electrolysis of water produces hydrogen and oxygen gases at different electrodes.
2H2O(l) --> 2H2(g) + O2(g)
Hydrogen is collected at the cathode.
Oxygen is collected at the anode.
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Hydrogen has 134,500 Btu/kg.
It takes about 50 kWh of electricity to manufacture one kilogram of hydrogen. One kWh is equal to 3,412 BTUs, so it takes 170,600 Btu of electricity
to make 134,500 Btu of hydrogen.
Or you get back about 78% of the energy back.
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