It's not Atom Spliting, That is a NUCLEAR process!

Atom spliting produces thousands of times more energy, and releases copious amounts of Neutrons.

Also Hydrogen cannot participate in Fission based nuclear reactions because it does not normally carry any neutrons, unless you are refering to Deuterium or Tritium. Either way these isotopes are far better off participating in Fusion based reactions then Fission based reactions, unless you want to try and split the protons and get the energy from the quarks themselves. Then I say good luck to you! I hope you have a damn good gamma-ray shield to stand behind, and your going to need something a little more juice then the 110volt outlet in your garage!

Dude go back to high school and learn about the real science before you go around bashing what you don't even know how to talk about.

~Seth
http://Blog.SethEden.com

Ignoring the atom splitting remark (geez, water is a molecule!) the efficiency inherent in a hydrogen storage system is further degraded by the amount of energy it takes to compress the hydrogen and store it in a reasonable volume (and the same would apply to vehicles...). Perhaps storing the hydrogen in ion form in solution is actually a good thing for a fuel cell since it would preclude the use of high pressure cannisters, assuming you can store enough hydrogen in a liquid and not have it consume all the space in your basement. I'm not a chemist but presumably it takes additional energy to pair up the hydrogen ions in solution with electrons to convert them back to a gas which is required to power a fuel cell. Anyway, as I stated in the "fuel cell cars are a fraud" thread hydrogen might be good for niche applications but questionable for widespread use. Fraud is such an inappropriate word to use when discussing science or technology.

A technology with much better potential for efficient, reliable, and long-lifetime energy storage falls in the realm of super-capacitor technology. For example in a Tesla electric car you could replace the 50 kWh LI-Ion battery pack with a supercapacitor that is roughly one third the volume. So it's not unreasonable to expect that eventually a super-capacitor the size of a stove or refridgerator could keep your home powered for several days after being charged up by solar panels, wind generators, or whatever other crazy scheme you can come up with to generate electricity in, on, or around your home. Of course widespread use always depends on ultimate costs, reliability, safety, and practical use.

Charlie, I wanted to comment on both this and your "bashing" of fuel cell technology. First this is pretty much how it is going to happen. Cheap "free" methods of breaking hydrogen from other compounds since hydrogen seems to be completely spoken for. As for why not just eliminate the middle man and just have electric cars is easy...I don't like driving for 200 miles then waiting 4-8 hours to drive another. I can "fill" my car in minutes using hydrogen. That is why it is the miracle cure. Certain aspects of electrical dynamics and chemical batteries prevent the ability to charge a car in minutes. If you wanted to drive from Texas to California and would have to spend the night where ever you were after 200 miles to charge up, I think you would agree with me. Now granted the hydrogen highway as it is being called isn't exactly expansed accross the country, but it is easier to build up this infrastructure than a bed and battery every 200 or so miles. Sorry for the spelling.

Thanks,

Dave in Texas

Is this not old news? Really the same day I found out about fuel cell tech i thought this up. And drew it up. And that was 6 years ago... (im only 21, so highschool. And because fuel cell tech has been around forever i assumed this "brilliant idea" was already out. How is this scifi worthy? isnt this idea just duh, but like 35 years ago?

Where's my thank you? I'm the one who gave everyone the link. I posted the link on your fraud report before you could even wake up and bash our President with the morning coffee.

ok too the guy at the top of the page the idea and process of breaking up water molocules into oxogen and hidrogen is not a complicated process and any one who has taken a good high school chemistry class should know that why because i saw the process preformed and the experiment ended with a small bang when my teacher lit the hydrogen on fire the guys at MIT are just adding a few steps to that

Wow, apart from comments 2 and 3, which were informative, they all just seem to be from guys who want to show us how very clever they are. What a bunch of wankers!