CONCLUSIONS

"We learned this, at least ,by our experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

We went into this project with clear goals but no maps. Happily, we have come out of it with a functioning system. It has been (and still is) a great project, which we would recommend to any adventurous, tech-oriented soul. For technical details of our system, please refer to the main page of this website.

Hydrogen systems involves a certain amount of trouble and expense. Partly this is just due to hydrogen's unfamiliarity, and makes for fine adventure. As to cost, we note that fossil fuels, first, enjoy tremendous economies of scale; second, include high external costs (eg carbon pollution) which we are only just beginning to pay; and third, cannot continue to be used at current rates in any case. However awesome gasoline is (and it's a world-beating fuel) we have to look beyond it and accept higher costs for energy.

Given this calculus, we find that especially in off-the-grid locations like ours, where it can be produced with renewable energy, hydrogen is viable for pollution-free energy systems. It is viable now.