Homemade Hydrogen -- Usable Or Not?

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. 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 largest downfall of homemade hydrogen systems is that they're usually not cost effective. 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 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 could already be that a viable system has been made, and I just haven't stumbled across 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.

by: Ben Mester

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