Hydrogen, Natural Gas and Pie

I'm not exactly sure where to go with this blog going forward, but I find myself drawn to business ideas as much as personal consumption ideas. For example here's a link to a schematic on how Hydrogen could be produced by wind power from UK concern Wind-Hydrogen, Ltd.

From what I've read, the idea is to view hydrogen in a tank as stored energy. hydrogen is easy to produce if you have excess electricity, such as a nuclear reactor or a wind farm at night.

The next question on hydrogen is, how can you leverage it most easily?

In a car?

For cooking? (apparently you can use it instead of propane or natural gas)

For heating your house? -- If you heat your house with natural gas you could maybe use hydrogen in the future...

Quick alternate fuel anecdote: My best summer job ever was working for a plumbing supply company near Albany, NY. To reduce their gasoline costs, they had modified several of their trucks to run on natural gas (really cheap in 1982) along with gasoline. But the conversion job was pretty weak, resulting in burned out carburetors -- apparently natural gas burns hotter than gasoline and this was not considered in the conversion process.

My worst moment was when I had stopped for lunch at Grandma's Pies on Central Ave where my friend Christine was a waitress. Had a great lunch, a tasty slice of blueberry pie and then headed back to the truck, which by the way was a big box truck with a huge logo on its side. Well the truck wouldn't start and I ended up getting picked up by one of the other drivers, leaving the big green box truck with the company logo out for all to see for a couple of days.

Moral of the story: make sure your dual fuel plans are really well thought out. And consider apple pie next time...