Alan_Hepburn wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I think retail sale of bulk hydrogen is by permit only. Maybe in excess of a certain quantity. Touched on this 25 years ago when perusing fuel cells. Hydrogen is nasty. The tiny atoms burrow their way through most container materials.
Hydrogen is easy to acquire - all you really need is a vat of water, a source of electricity, and some collecting containers. Drop your positive and negative electrodes into the water under your collectors and you get hydrogen in one of the containers and oxygen in the other - just don't try to recombine them!
Heh prepare to be patient if you try the electrolysis method or use a lot of power. As for hydrogen in the US you can buy hydrogen gas cylinders at a welding supply store. Glass blowers use oxy-hydrogen torches which burn hotter than acetylene torches. If you want a semiload maybe you need a permit but I don't know why that would be the case. Every large generation plant uses hydrogen to fill generators. It has electrical qualities that the electrical engineers like.
