I have been reading alot lately about the potentials, drawbacks and woes surrounding the use of hydrogen as a fuel source or alternative to fossil fuels. I think its something we should all consider and keep an open mind about.

Sure it will probably take forever to become financially feasible for the residential market, but you never know.

I been reading in a few journals about how nanophotonics (nanotechnology for the solar industry basically) can aid in the process of producing hydrogen for fuel cell consumption. Its sort of a biomimic type process where we harness the energy from solar photons to aid in splitting of water molecules.

Aside from the technical mumbo jumbo which gives me a headache, wouldn't it be nice to find a way to harness the power that is provided us nature to fuel our world?

I really don't think its going to take that long to reach the residential markets once it becomes commercially available. I don't think that hydrogen fuel cells are really the best thing for large or industrial applications, so it will be the smaller applications like vehicles and homes that benefit the most from hydrogen fuel cell power.

I look forward to those days, but I do feel that we are some years away from this working. We just have to be patient.

I see the benefits of converting energy for certain applications, but I am always skeptical of processes which require multiple energy conversions, knowing that each conversion also means a reduction in usable output energy.

I don't think that this is applicable to the residential market and should be used primarily in the automotive market if issues there with batteries and distance can be resolved.

I understand the skepticism with conversion, but the energy itself is "free". The energy that fuels the system is energy that otherwise would go to "waste". I understand that the efficiencies are reduced but in a more wholitic view, deriving hydrogen from a process using only solar energy, is a net gain.