Hydrogen Fuel Cell Corp. is working to make the hydrogen-powered home a reality, and will be demonstrating its system for generating residential electric power from a hydrogen fuel cell stack at two homes in Texas and Florida.
The company, a subsidiary of American Security Resources Corp., has already installed its HydraStax fuel cell system at a residence in Texas - the company claims it is North America’s first residential hydrogen fuel cell system - and will be installing one this week at a home in Miami, Florida. Jim Twedt, President and CEO of Hydra, said the company will be demonstrating its “very robust beta fuel cell system” and plans to roll out a production model early in 2008.
“The production models will be smaller, significantly more efficient and include the ammonia-to-hydrogen fuel system being developed by American Hydrogen Corp. That fueling system is scheduled for delivery in about 60 days and will deliver hydrogen at a price that we expect will make the electricity generated by HydraStax fuel cells much less expensive than the electricity purchased from the grid.
ARSC’s hydrogen production technology was developed at Ohio University. ARSC is commercializing it under a deal that gives the university a stake in the company.
Gerardine Botte, an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in at Ohio University, developed the patent-pending ammonia catalytic electrolyzer technology which efficiently converts ammonia into hydrogen, inexpensively.
ARSC is a holding company developing clean energy technologies. Besides Hydra Fuel Cell Corp., the Houston-based company also owns American Hydrogen Corporation and American Wind Power Corporation. The ARSC’s stock is traded on the OTC BB market.
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Outstanding! I work for a major automobile company that has hundreds of Hydrogen fuel vehicles on the road. I’m glad someone has been working on this.