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7 hours of class room & lab video.
The energy market is hot, everyone is looking for ways to save energy, save money, make energy and make money. This DVD gives you the basics with world class quality. The 7 Hours of class room and lab video are of 30 novice people, just like you, asking the same questions you would ask. This is not some stuffy professor in front of a black board just droning on, the instructor is teaching, talking and interacting with a very curious class that is always asking questions and for more explanation. This video shows how to:
* make hydrogen (aluminum and water, other metal water chemistries, electrolysis, high temp disassociation, from gasoline & other liquids, from biomass)
* capture and store hydrogen (compressed gas, hydride, cryogenic liquid, future methods and more)
* make a low temperature fuel cell (proton exchange membrane [PEM])
* make a medium temperature fuel cell (molten carbine [MCFC], phosphoric acid fuel cells [PAFC])
* make a high temperature fuel cell (solid electrolyte, metal oxide fuel cell, direct Natural Gas Fuel Cells)
It also shows:
* how electrolyzers work, how to make one
* how reversible fuel cells work
* how aluminum fuel cells work
* biomass and organic waste to hydrogen
* an actual palm sized proton exchange membrane fuel cell assembled and working
* a tour of a state of the art hydrogen lab and its equipment
* a large reversible fuel cell, storage tanks, electrolyzers and more.
Contains complete diagrams and chemical formulas. The Instructor, Roy McAlister, works with the class interactively drawing, showing, explaining everything as he goes along and the class asks questions.
This is the real science.
(about 210 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on September 16, 2005 in Vehicles::Alternative Energy.
Product availability: moderate wait
While there is some really good information in this video I was really disappointed in it. It was to long and to drawn out, and the speaker wasn't the most entertaining guy. As I said there's some really good information in there, and if you're still awake when the video gets to it you'll find the information fascinating. However if you're hoping to watch this video and then start making your own fuel cell I'd lower my expectations a bit. The description says that it covers how to build this and how to build that but really all you're going to see is a classroom environment putting together things that look like they either came from hobby kits or things that came from a science class supplier. I can't knock the information since as I said there's some really good information in there, I just had trouble staying awake long enough to get to it. Also the guy shooting this video is the same guy that shot the hydrogen car video and once again it's a combination of his condecending attitude and his thinking the speaker can walk on water and do no wrong that kind of turned me off a bit. I like to learn but not from someone who has a chip on their shoulder and constantly feels the need to express it.
If you're more interested in learning "about" hydrogen and it's potential uses in everyday life than this is a good video and will give you a really good understanding of it, but if you're wanting a video that will tell you everything you need to know about building your own hydrogen producing and utilization equipment you'll be disappointed. Also something else that I thought was sort of odd was that the video is about hydrogen experimentation but there are a lot of times in the video that you get the feeling that they are bragging about how you can't do some of this experimentation as a hobbiest.
Whew! I should have found out how long this DVD was before I ordered two to watch in one week! (7.5 hours of lectures and demonstrations...EACH.) These were obviously select (and probably expensive to attend) seminars by Roy McAlister. He's been doing hydrogen research since the mid-1960's and has LOTS of knowledge to share. I only got through the 'Class 1' DVD. I'll have to let it sink in and re-order the 'Class 2' DVD later. Although presented in a classroom setting, Roy's knowledge takes what could be a very dry subject and makes it real by applying it to real-life instances. Highly recommended for anyone interested in fuel cells and hydrogen uses.
While there is little doubt that Roy McAlister knows fuel cells inside and out, this video leaves a lot to be desired. The format is basically just Roy fielding questions from what appears to be a 2-day workshop on fuel cells. Sometimes the questions are on topic and sometimes they aren’t. So there’s little structure to the presentation. And the camera work, audio and editing are – to put it nicely – amateurish. That said, if you have the time and patience to devote to the pair of DVDs you will no doubt learn a few things. I’d say there’s probably 1 to 2 hours of decent info out of the 7 hours total. And Roy, while a little dry, has a truly impressive knowledge of the subject.
