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Comment by aunty_helen

19 hours ago

Even if it was fully green, you can’t run an electrolysis system from home. So you have to buy it, so there’s a market and an expensive solution.

Electricity comes out the wall.

> Electricity comes out the wall.

Which unless you have solar, you are paying for. Even if you have solar, you are paying off the panels, batteries and inverter/chargers over a period of time.

Nothing is free.

What do you mean?

You can run electrolysis from a cup.

  • I know, I have one of those weird H shaped flasks with the plat electrodes.

    I also have a gas bbq, yet couldn't fill up a LNG car at my house. Maybe there's something more to it than just making small amounts of room temperature / pressure H2.

  • You can’t make and store bulk hydrogen at home

    • You can’t.

      I’m willing to give it a go.

      I’ve got the excess solar from the rooftop solar panels, the electrical and electronic knowledge, and the gas fitter and metal fabrication experience.

      I have an oil free air compressor, and anyone can by a helium based cryo-cooler. I have an account with an industrial gas supplier.

      Just enough knowledge to be dangerous.

      If Nile Red hasn’t blown his lab up by the time I publish this comment, I reckon I stand a chance.

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