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A self-contained solar-powered car is not viable. There simply isn't enough area for the solar panels.
Take a Honda Civic as an example: it's got about eight square meters of top surface that solar panels could be installed on, for a peak theoretical generation of 8 kW. That same Honda Civic has a 92-kW engine, meaning that for each second of maximum ...
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Hydrogen is made in quantity by stream /methane reforming. Refineries currently make many tons per day with this process : it is used for hydrocracking , reforming ( making high octane fuels and plastics raw materials ) and other hydrotreating processes. Most of these processes consume H , but some actually produce H , but I no longer remember which is ...
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The favored anode catalyst in a hydrogen fuel cell is platinum(1) or another platinum-group element (e.g. palladium). The catalyst is required in small quantities for an individual fuel cell but of course this demand scales up linearly with the number of fuel cells you want to produce.
There is ongoing research into development of alternative anode ...
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