Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-25 Thread Kurt Granroth
Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: 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.html The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-25 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Thursday 24 April 2008, koder wrote: Recreational vehicles and yachts use solar panels to power some decently sized storage batteries. If you put up enough of them you can run a computer system. batteries are all fine and good, but require frequent replacement (every 1-2 years down here

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-25 Thread koder
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 13:22 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, koder wrote: Recreational vehicles and yachts use solar panels to power some decently sized storage batteries. If you put up enough of them you can run a computer system. batteries are all fine and

OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Technomage-hawke
ok, I know some of you are engineering types. I am starting to look at the idea of home building a fuel cell here that can power my machines off the grid if need be. I am not worried about the fuel source itself (hydrogen can be easily got with some solar cells, graphic electrodes and starage

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Stephen P Rufle
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.html The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to start for the feasibility of different ideas. Technomage-hawke wrote:

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Technomage-hawke
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: 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.html The cost of his system seem a bit high, but maybe it would be a good place to start for the

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread koder
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:47 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: 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.html The cost of his system seem a

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:00 AM, koder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 10:47 -0700, Technomage-hawke wrote: On Thursday 24 April 2008, Stephen P Rufle wrote: I remember reading about this guy in Wired magazine. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.03/play.html?pg=9

Re: OT: need some help with fuel cells

2008-04-24 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Technomage-hawke wrote: ok, I know some of you are engineering types. I am starting to look at the idea of home building a fuel cell here that can power my machines off the grid if need be. I am not worried about the fuel source itself (hydrogen can be easily got with