Serious question here. Is it reasonably possible to set up a hydrogen creating station at your home through electrolysis from water to create and store sufficient hydrogen to fuel your vehicle?
I think it is, because you’re just using electrolysis on water to break the bonds between oxygen and hydrogen. Anything big industry can do, you can do at home. It’s just a question as to whether or not you can do it in a cost effective measure or whether, at best, you can ensure a needed supply to top up your tank.
“Serious question here. Is it reasonably possible to set up a hydrogen creating station at your home through electrolysis from water to create and store sufficient hydrogen to fuel your vehicle?”
Anything’s possible, given enough money.
The problem is storing hydrogen. A hydrogen converter of some sort is the true answer, but I have been saying this for ten years.
Likely not cost effective at all.
Also, plenty of ‘tards would probably blow up their homes or burn them down.
Is it possible to generate your own Hydrogen? Yes it is possible. Is it possible to do it economically? Not hardly unless you have solar cells, a lot of them. If you have a nuclear reactor at your disposal you could do it but nuclear reactors are not cheap so no you can’t do it economically. I have a neighbor that has an EV and a lot of solar on the roof and he swears by it for local driving. It will take a log time for him to break even on costs but he isn’t buying much gas. If he has to go more than 250 miles he takes his gas car. Japan is experimenting with nuclear reactors cooled with Helium which because it does not have to have moving water is pretty safe. Reactors could generate enough electricity or high temperature steam to make hydrogen from water through electrolysis or convert natural gas, methane, into hydrogen with high temperature steam, a temperature of around 2000°F or so will do the job.
Now the problem is how do we store the hydrogen. When we burn hydrocarbons mostly we are burning hydrogen that is trapped with other molecules or atoms so we get pollution. Hydrogen really is clean. unless you use solar or nuclear to make the hydrogen it is not clean. Hydrogen is not energy dense per it’s mass so we use it under extremely high pressure. Break the container of high pressure hydrogen and your in for a real report.
Hydrogen fuel is a good fuel but it is difficult to work with and hard to keep at efficient pressures safely.
When chemists come up with a good way to store hydrogen in a liquid that will allow the hydrogen to be easily removed when needed then I think we will be on to something.