[Tell It Right]

IMHO the demise of fuel cells being a somewhat regular feature is because battery storage became cheaper, more compact, and more efficient.

For example, last year my home solar stored a total of 12,066.7 kWh (12 megawatt hours) to the solar battery bank, and 10,880.5 kWh was pulled from the batteries at nights and rainy days. So, in other words, my batteries gave me back 90% of what I gave them.

I don't think the production of hydrogen, storing it (either as gas or compressed), then using it to produce power with fuel cells can provide anything close to 90% of the energy used to produce and store the hydrogen.

[Freedom4US]

When I’m boondocking though, or at a cabin, I don’t necessarily care about “efficiency”.

I want lots of juice, and potable water. It sure looks like a technical solution that would scale down. Not having to fvck with Solar or Generators would be fine with me, too.