Interesting development in hydrogen storage

[Nightshade]

Developed by Danish scientists, suprisingly they're NOT storing it in a pastry. I was as shocked as you.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 102549.htm

[Canidae]

Sounds better than the hydrate methods used now that are slow and require a lot of heat insertion and removal.
I wonder how long it will be before you can buy this pill at a rave?

[seremtan]

that's awesome. i've been storing my hydrogen in cardboard boxes in the attic so this is a real boon.

btw last i heard (it was on here iirc) the hydrogen economy was a mirage. so does this change things dramatically?

[seremtan]

und den vee crumble de hash into de rizla...

[Don Carlos]

suprisingly they're NOT storing it in a pastry. I was as shocked as you.

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old

[Nightshade]

btw last i heard (it was on here iirc) the hydrogen economy was a mirage. so does this change things dramatically?

I don't believe so. The thing that most tree-huggers don't want to admit is that the generation of hydrogen(at this point) is still very much petroleum-dependent.
It does seem to solve the very tricky storage problem, though. Albeit with no frosting.

[neh]

btw last i heard (it was on here iirc) the hydrogen economy was a mirage. so does this change things dramatically?

I don't believe so. The thing that most tree-huggers don't want to admit is that the generation of hydrogen(at this point) is still very much petroleum-dependent.
It does seem to solve the very tricky storage problem, though. Albeit with no frosting.

currently isnt pretty much all alternate mobile energy still in its origin from fossil fuels - just differs the problems - though in cars it does solve the particulates problems

[Canidae]

old

Yes, because the Anastasi Indians built their spaceships using this and left earth?

[seremtan]

yeah, and they took their danish pastries with them the tightfisted redskins

[Transient]

btw last i heard (it was on here iirc) the hydrogen economy was a mirage. so does this change things dramatically?

That's what I heard in a documentary I watched recently about the end of suburbia (i.e. fossil fuel goes bye-bye). They only briefly mentioned it, but they said that hydrogen requires fossil fuels to compress. From what I gather from the article, you still need fossil fuels to compress the solid form of hydrogen. This just makes it safer and, I think, more compressed.

I would still like to see how a gas tank full of it holds up against a head-on collision from a giant block of steel and fire going 35 Km/h.

BTW, how safe is ammonia? Since they're using that for storage now. And what effects will it have on the environment? I can't tell if when the fuel is spent, the ammonia is released.

[Nightshade]

Actually, I think this may resolve the petroleum dependency. Since it's using ammonia as the hydrogen source, I guess that's pretty much that. Ammonia's nasty stuff, but in this reaction, it gets broken down.

[Guest]

Yeah that's awsome, now all I need to make a bomb is a some amonia, a squirt gun and a lighter! YAY!!!!

[Guest]

Not that I couldn't do that with gasoline but this is portable people!!

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

Kracus, you are a bomb.