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Originally Posted by AZCivic
There's a fixed limit as to how much he needs to store though. That limit would be somewhere around 1/20th or less of the space he already dedicated to his massive solar panel farm. It's one of those things where you really can't explain it in any way other than "He did it because he can."
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Sure, it's an experiment to see if it's a suitable option, but theoretically if you designed one of these systems properly and you had enough capacity you could generate enough hydrogen to supply the house with power for the winter when solar power is at it's minimum.
Also, even though the current technology for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is rather innefficient there are substantial improvements in the works that will change the way we think about hydrogen, much like what's happening with bio-fuels -- rapid development is improving efficiency making them into a source of energy rather than an energy sink. Things like this lead the way to innovations that can be put to use in all sorts of applications, home and automotive.