Technomage-hawke wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote:read that one. and no, I don't have $50,000 to spend. I was hoping for something more along the lines of $1,000 or less.I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9 http://www.siei.org/mainpage.htmlThe cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to start for the feasibility of different ideas.
Interesting... I thought I read about that guy before and that his total system costs were closer to $500,000, not $50,000. Maybe it's a different guy doing the exact same thing.
In any event, I can't imagine that any non-toy system could be made for under $1000. Each of the components necessary are typically pretty expensive. A solar system approaching the kilowatt range (less isn't very useful except for playing around) is in the multi-thousands by itself. Electrolysis machines aren't cheap, either. And what about storing the hydrogen? That's going to take some huge tanks unless you have even more (expensive) specialized equipment.
All that said, if you can figure out an inexpensive way to do it, I would absolutely love to hear about it! I've been researching alternative energy solutions lately and am only recently getting over the initial shock of finding out just how expensive they all are.
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