Not really. With high temperature process for instance, producing the hydrogen under pressure only takes like 1% more energy.
Sticking two electrodes in a glass of saltwater and then compressing that hydrogen to useful pressure takes a lot of energy.
There are some complications with hydrogen but most of what you hear is FUD. Usually from EV crowd because most hydrogen now is made from fossil fuels.
I found a writeup once of someone who built a solar hydrogen power generation system for his home. He had to use multiple 500 gallon propane tanks (which wasn't ideal because they apparently were "leaky" to hydrogen, but it was the only thing he could reasonably find to use) to store all the hydrogen he needed for the system.
But if you lived in the woods somewhere in the middle of nowhere, that kind of thing might work pretty well.
producing hydrogen at home is indeed very easy, the problem is producing enough and compressing it to be viable.
Not really. With high temperature process for instance, producing the hydrogen under pressure only takes like 1% more energy.
Sticking two electrodes in a glass of saltwater and then compressing that hydrogen to useful pressure takes a lot of energy.
There are some complications with hydrogen but most of what you hear is FUD. Usually from EV crowd because most hydrogen now is made from fossil fuels.
I found a writeup once of someone who built a solar hydrogen power generation system for his home. He had to use multiple 500 gallon propane tanks (which wasn't ideal because they apparently were "leaky" to hydrogen, but it was the only thing he could reasonably find to use) to store all the hydrogen he needed for the system.
But if you lived in the woods somewhere in the middle of nowhere, that kind of thing might work pretty well.
Hydrogen is very leak prone and worse it makes metals that it's exposed to brittle (hydrogen embrittlement).
It's not as simple as it sounds on the surface.
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In layman's terms, we would call that a bomb.
A 500 gallon propane tank filled with propane is also a bomb m8.
Granted the propane tank is likely not rated for H2 and will leak for sure, but just keep anything with the potential to spark 15 ft away
If you wanna make your own fuel, hydrogen is just an extremely hard way to do it. You can make ethanol or methanol more easily.
Or biodiesel. It's easier to find cars to modify for this.