If our homes were runnig on Fuel Cells, or Hydrogen Fuel Cells?And is thier any country that uses Fuel Cells in thier homes, other than Canada and the US?And what would be the cost for producing that energy?Thank you very much.
Well the way fuel cells work is not like you are eluding to. In general, if you do have a hydrogen fuel cell system, it is used more as a storage device for electricity produced by other means, say solar or wind or Natural Gas. The electricity generated from those other methods is used in an electrolyzer where electricity is pumped into water (H20) to separate the Hydrogen from the Oxygen. The Hydrogen is then held temporarily in a compressed state as is the oxygen (the Oxygen can be sold to Med equipment company). The hydrogen fuel cell is the places where the hydrogen is brought back together with any available air (oxygen) and when the two molecules combine again to form water an electrical charge is released and fuel cell takes this electricity and sends it to the load. Basically it is a very expensive and overly complicated battery system. your better off just using solar and having a grid tied system so you use the grid as your battery backup.
