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Stem Education ‘Horizon’ | HYDROGEN RACER: ‘H-Racer 2.0’
$ 350.00 excl. GST
► Experience the automotive Stem Education technology of the future by building and driving your own Hydrogen fuel cell car H-RACER 2.0.
• The latest generation of H-RACER, and H-RACER 2.0, allows you to watch the process of electrolysis and the conversion of Hydrogen into Electrical energy
Features:
• Both the car and the Hydrogen refueling station have transparent casing and LED lighting to showcase the science
• Accurately reflects how Hydrogen cars and refueling stations work.
• Includes solar panel able to power the production of Hydrogen.
• Infrared control helps guide the car once its tank is filled with fuel.
• CD Manual & experiment guide supplied.
Additional components:
Hands-on Lab Activities | Student’s Guide | Building a Hydrogen powered car | Generating Hydrogen with a solar panel | Moving the car forward and backward using an infrared control | Understanding fuel cell technology
Kit Contents:
Hydrogen station | Car chassis | Car body | PEM Electrolyzer Hydrogen Fuel Cell | 0.75-watt Solar panel | Infrared remote control | Quick connector | Purging valve | Refueling input valve | Syringe | Front & rear bumpers | 3x flexible plastic tubes | 8x screws | Connector cable for solar hydrogen station | Decorative H2 sticker | Remote control batteries | Assembly instructions | CD-ROM with renewable energy curriculum manuals.
Experiments:
– The effect of heat on solar panels
– The effect of shade on solar panels
– The effect of tilt angle on solar panels
– Finding the solar panel’s maximum power point
– Electrolysis mode generating Hydrogen and Oxygen from water
– Fuel cell mode generating electricity from Hydrogen and Oxygen
– Determining the minimum voltage for water decomposition
– Polarizations states for Hydrogen fuel cells.
[View H-RACER PDF pdf info: HNFCJJ-23-datasheet or User manual HNFCJJ-23-user-manual ]
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Stem Education 'Horizon' | HYDROGEN RACER: 'H-Racer 2.0'
• Experience the automotive Stem Education technology of the future by building and driving your own Hydrogen fuel cell car H-RACER 2.0.
• The latest generation of H-RACER, and H-RACER 2.0, allows you to watch the process of electrolysis and the conversion of Hydrogen into Electrical energy
Features:
• Both the car and the Hydrogen refueling station have transparent casing and LED lighting to showcase the science
• Accurately reflects how Hydrogen cars and refueling stations work.
• Includes solar panel able to power the production of Hydrogen.
• Infrared control helps guide the car once its tank is filled with fuel.
• CD Manual & experiment guide supplied.
• Experience the automotive Stem Education technology of the future by building and driving your own Hydrogen fuel cell car H-RACER 2.0.
• This design has numerous awards, including: Time Magazine’s “Best Inventions”, Business Week IDEA, Metropolitan Home “Design 100″, ID magazine annual review, Business 2.0 Bottom Line Design Awards.
From Toy to Transport Solution:
— There are a few products in the Horizon catalogue which act as milestones. H-RACER is one such product.
— The concept was simple enough: a Hydrogen hybrid RC car that came with its own Hydrogen refueling station.
— Add in the fact that users construct the car themselves and you have a powerful didactic tool.
— It didn’t take long for the H-RACER to become the world’s best-selling Hydrogen car– albeit also one of the world’s smallest.
— Then came the design awards – Time Magazine, BusinessWeek – and we realized we were on to something special...There is a market for well-made hydrogen hybrid vehicles, a big one.
— What could this mean for real-scale transport solutions?
- Firstly, H-RACER sells so well because it comes with its own Hydrogen.
From the users’ perspective all they need is some distilled/de-ionized water and they’re good to go.
That makes H-RACER a high-value purchase, as well as making storage nice and simple. - Secondly, while H-RACER grabs the headline, for over a decade Horizon has been working on large fuel cell system deployment.
The H-RACER emphasizes the need to build step by step, keep thing small, simple and efficient.
The less Hydrogen required, the more the technology is in our control.
For this reason, Horizon keeps its fuel cell development to below 5kW for inner-city transport and on-demand Hydrogen storage systems.
The thinking behind H-RACER is the same thinking that produced our Hydrofill series, desktop Hydrogen production that simply needs water and a power supply to charge up Hydrostik and HYDROSTIK PRO metal hydride cartridges.
Horizon believes that the future of energy is in localized, domestic production— homeowners choosing the solutions that best match their needs.
So yes, H-RACER is a great RC car and awesome fun to build and drive.
But it’s also an important precursor of a time soon to come when each one of us will control our own energy destinies
Curriculum:
• What is included in the horizon energy curriculum?
• The lab equipment is just the beginning.
• We’ve built the horizon energy curriculum to provide teachers with multiple resources for engaging their students.
[View H-RACER PDF pdf info: HNFCJJ-23-datasheet or User manual HNFCJJ-23-user-manual ]
WHY FUEL CELLS and HYDROGEN ?
► Fuel cells can be thought of as alternative energy devices.
They convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
Hydrogen fuel cells do this very cleanly, with no toxic emissions, and with a better efficiency.
Fuel cells do not generate energy out of thin air.
They use hydrogen.
Hydrogen is an outstanding carrier of energy.
► Hydrogen is non-toxic, renewable, easily obtained, and packed with energy.
When it combusts with oxygen, it turns into water.
This water can again be split into hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis.
The generated hydrogen can be combusted once again, thus undergoing a limitless cycle without toxic emissions.
With a fuel cell, you can convert hydrogen into electric current without combustion.
Fossil fuels are converted into usable energy through combustion.
► The energy released during combustion is inherently difficult to capture and inefficient.
It also produces carbon dioxide, which cannot easily be converted back into a usable fuel.
A fossil fuel combustion engine at a power plant is only about 30 to 40% efficient.
This means it coverts only 30 to 40% of the energy in the fossil fuels to usable energy (electricity).
Engines in a car are even less efficient, and reach the level of 15 to 20% of efficiency.
Where does the rest of the energy go? It escapes as heat, vibration, and noise.
"STEM is an acronym for Science-Technology-Engineering-Math."
Additional information
| Item Range Size | 'H-Racer 2.0', 'H-Racer 2.0' Car, 'Hydrocar', 'Hydrocar' Car |
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