Comments on: Students to Sail Hydrogen Powered Boat

By: wayne leathers

wayne leathers — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 17:13:53 +0000

Thanks Wise One, but please explane your meanings, in $ terms of “not expensive, cheap and effective”.
I look forward to getting enlightened!

By: The Wise One

The Wise One — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:19:54 +0000

btw Vivian Taylor, hydrogen fuel cells are not expensive to produce, it’s cheap and effective. Stop listening to the oil companies and paid off politicians.

By: The Wise One

The Wise One — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:18:54 +0000

Oh yes, we’re consuming oil faster than it is being collected. And the places we’re collecting oil from are limited as well as non-renewable… But hey, more power to the incompetent people who want the global economy to collapse before mass-producing hydrogen fuel cell technology.

P.S. Hybrid technology is delaying the necessary transition to hydrogen fuel, at least it’s progress, in the past the oil companies completely banned hybrid technology. Hydrogen fuel cell technology has been around since the 70’s…but our ignorance has kept it from being used like it should be.

By: The Wise One

The Wise One — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:12:27 +0000

Nobody gets it yet…hydrogen fuel cell technology is the future and it is renewable as well as abundant unlike oil… Oil will not last forever, the government refuses to admit it because the Oil companies still want to make profit, but we are running out of oil, doesn’t take a genius to foresee the future global economic collapse.

1. There’s not enough oil.
2. Oil is NOT renewable.
3. People need to wake up and stop listening to the lies coming from the Oil companies… Hydrogen fuel cell technology can save the economy for many reasons including the ones I mentioned earlier.

It’s sad that the majority of the public doesn’t take hydrogen fuel cell technology seriously… they believe oil is going to last forever for some reason.

By: Bill Higdon

Bill Higdon — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:27:11 +0000

Congratulations on what you have done. This is similar to my own plans for a green sailboat, but I will use technologies my company is developing, as well as hemp fiber instead of glass, and whatever else I can come up with to reduce the carbon footprint. Should anyone at AE read this, I hope they can connect us.

By: SaysMe

SaysMe — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:29:11 +0000

Ok, they finally made the trip, but I would think again on their prosecution of operations on this voyage. These foolish students literally assembled the boat and parts and took off the next day. They absolutely did no testing of final equipment before shoving off. The tried and true steam boat made the voyage in 32 hours, these kids took nine plus days to do the same route. Does not say much for today’s engineers.

By: Vivian Taylor

Vivian Taylor — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:30:53 +0000

I think hydrogen are two expensive unless the government really have some plans to reduce the cost of it… with the down economy like this it would be hard for people who don’t have money to go for stuff like this.

By: Stacey Antilla

Stacey Antilla — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:34:29 +0000

Sometimes, when there is no wind, you have to run the motor. And especially when you are mooring, in case you haven’t been sailing… it can be an impossibility getting to the mooring without the motor.

By: John Boston

John Boston — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:33:48 +0000

Is this intended to be an example of how to avoid using clean energy? It’s my understanding that the greenest way to propel a sailboat is with sailboat fuel. It doesn’t get any cleaner or more renewable than that.
Hydrogen power will do nothing but delay the move to real renewable energy. It sounds great, but only shifts the point of pollution from the end-user to the plants that produce the hydrogen.

I guess you could always power a sailboat with hydrogen produced with electricity from wind turbines. Oh, the irony!

By: Alexander Eccleston

Alexander Eccleston — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:33:10 +0000

Good luck. I hope it runs perfect. OPEC needs to go out of business.

By: David Higgins

David Higgins — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:32:48 +0000

Don’t blow up! Have a good sail. I commend you on your efforts. Hope you have a phycisist on board. We need to reach a new era of fuel. We all know what happened the lat time. Prove history wrong!

By: M. Kyle Jackson

M. Kyle Jackson — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:32:30 +0000

It’d be great if they could use solar for electrolytic production of Hydrogen – as electrolysis is energy-hungry.

By: Koné Adama

Koné Adama — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:32:07 +0000

That’s the question! Is there anyone who can tell me what it’s all about the pros and cons of such revolution.

Thanks in advance!

By: Sum Dood

Sum Dood — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:31:36 +0000

I’d very much like to feel positive about this, but is there any indication of how much green / un-green energy is used when producing the hydrogen?

By: Karloskar Hall

Karloskar Hall — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:28:31 +0000

Hydrogen is all well and good, but it needs to be produced and stored.

But go boat makers!

By: Boneheaded1

Boneheaded1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:16:55 +0000

My only question: How much did the fuel cells cost?

Fuel cells are a great technology. However they are yet to be produced in even a remotely cost effective manner. The materials are too expensive. I do however, applaud their efforts to bring the discussion to the forefront. Hopefully it will inspire a few young minds who might actually develop a way to build a fuel cell that is economically viable.

By: Vilas Khadse

Vilas Khadse — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:32:09 +0000

A question how much hydrogen and oxygen will be required for the trip. How it will be carried and refueled? Since all the development of hydrogen economy depends on Refueling infrastructure. Anyway my best wishes for the expedition.