Comments on: Honda FCX Clarity & Home Energy Station

By: Deliverance

Deliverance — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:00:48 +0000

sQbcGH I’m not easily impressed. . . but that’s impressing me!

By: SteveC

SteveC — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:37:17 +0000

F1 champ: Actually the impression I get from that comment is that production of all Solar cells in the past causes greater pollution than they reduce, except for these new “Honda” cells. It doesnt specify solar cells made many years ago as polluters, it just says “production of solar cells”. As for saying new generation solar cells are less polluting, it doesnt say that at all, it only says “Honda solar cells”. I did read the post carefully , that is why I was surprised at what it said. I thought this site was better than that.

By: f1worldchamp

f1worldchamp — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:13:06 +0000

I think you guys need to go back to school and do a little reading comprehension lessons.
“But the production of solar panels create more pollution than they offset…” Correct, but not these ‘new’ Honda built, highly efficient photovoltaic cells.”

Umm, doesn’t it say exactly what you guys are arguing? That in the past solar panels created a lot of pollution during manufacturing, but the new generation ones don’t?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:45:43 +0000

I agree SteveC, there does seem to be a bias/agenda that makes me far less likely to believe anything from the site.

By: SteveC

SteveC — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:05:44 +0000

Genie thanks for your post. It backs up what I was pretty much thinking. As such I really have a problem with the following quote from this site:

“But the production of solar panels create more pollution than they offset…” Correct, but not these ‘new’ Honda built, highly efficient photovoltaic cells.

Cmon guys, you make a great website, lets not bring it down with rubbish facts.

By: Genie

Genie — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:36:10 +0000

SteveC, the vast majority of ‘studies’ that have shown solar panels taking more energy to make than they would ever produce only refer to the first generation solar panels, back when we made solar panels like we make silicon chips for computers. Nowdays solar panels are both much for efficient (converting more received EM radiation to electricity) as well as much easier to produce. Now the energy payday is approx 1 – 4 years, depending on the strength of sunlight in your area.

www . nrel . gov / docs / fy05osti / 37322. pdf and take out the random spaces

By: f1worldchamp

f1worldchamp — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:58:50 +0000

Hopefully, there will be some kind of standardisation with the energy stations, so that you can change cars (and brands) without changing the charging station. I’m already picturing me explaining what a petrol station was to future my grandkids.

By: SteveC

SteveC — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:28:57 +0000

I find it hard to believe that a solar panel makes more pollution in production than it offsets (especially considering the 25 year life span of panels). I would love to see some sort of link (only from a reputable source) before I believe it.

Car looks good though. Good for Honda for doing this.

By: Gift-Ed

Gift-Ed — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:39:09 +0000

Yes they’re still working on it – cfcl dot com dot au

By: Gift-Ed

Gift-Ed — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:38:22 +0000

Sounds great. There was an Australian company developing Ceramic Fuel Cells that did a similar thing – installing CFC units in houses, efficiently producing clean electricity from natural gas (instead of solar power).

Either of these solutions would be an ideal partner to a Volt style of plug in hybrid.

I’d love to see the Aussie company involved in this sort of project.