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Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells: Chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen
http://www.physorg.com ^ | Aug 29, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 08/30/2011 6:38:50 PM PDT by Red Badger

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Perhaps we may see hydrogen powered society after all.......
1 posted on 08/30/2011 6:38:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

They’re called soup beans.


2 posted on 08/30/2011 6:41:47 PM PDT by relictele (Pax Quaeritur Bello)
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To: Red Badger

Contrary to algore’s overinflated sense of self, the Trojans of USC had more to do with the creation of the Internet than any politician. This could be yet another Conquest by USC.


3 posted on 08/30/2011 6:42:10 PM PDT by Adams (Fight on!)
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To: Red Badger

Wow. This could be a game changer. Very interesting indeed.


4 posted on 08/30/2011 6:43:41 PM PDT by Ronin (Obamanation has replaced Bizarroworld as the most twisted place in the universe.)
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To: relictele

Just add a little baking soda during cooking and you wont have that problem.........


5 posted on 08/30/2011 6:43:46 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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A big battery. Making hydrogen costs energy, doesn’t generate it


6 posted on 08/30/2011 6:44:59 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: relictele
I think that you are referring to CH4 rather than H2. :-)
7 posted on 08/30/2011 6:45:10 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Red Badger; All

I think so...


8 posted on 08/30/2011 6:47:04 PM PDT by KevinDavis (What has Ron Paul done in Congress??)
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To: Mount Athos

Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-alloy-hydrogen-fuel-sunlight.html


9 posted on 08/30/2011 6:49:07 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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Wow. This could be a game changer. Very interesting indeed.

I've been seeing stories like this for almost ten years. There's a reason why none are commercialized yet, and they never tell you the downside in these press releases.

10 posted on 08/30/2011 6:49:39 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Ronin

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-alloy-hydrogen-fuel-sunlight.html


11 posted on 08/30/2011 6:49:49 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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This is just grant-writing fluff.

Show me an actual application or it's meaningless.
12 posted on 08/30/2011 6:49:49 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Red Badger

bump.


13 posted on 08/30/2011 6:50:08 PM PDT by ken21 (ruling class dem + rino progressives -- destroying america for 150 years.)
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To: Red Badger
"delivering several cycles of dehydrogenation at high"

In other words, disposable. Unless they can sell, and dispose of, it in powder form on a scale with gas. Closer, but no cigar.
14 posted on 08/30/2011 7:03:18 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Top 10% of wage earners pay 70% of total income taxes collected. Bottom 50% pay less then 3%, fair?)
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To: Mount Athos
Thank you for pointing out the obvious.

Besides, Metal Hydrides as a storage medium for fuel cells have been around for decades; this seems to be an improvement, but not a new or revolutionary means of storing hydrogen.

15 posted on 08/30/2011 7:10:16 PM PDT by PENANCE
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Too bad we don't have hydrogen mines or hydrogen wells.

Hydrogen is not an energy source, it is an energy storage mechanism.

We still have to figure out a way to make hydrogen to be a fuel.

16 posted on 08/30/2011 7:10:37 PM PDT by dirtboy
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Still expensive and difficult to extract hydrogen from water. The difficulty and danger of transferring hydrogen will mean that only trained personnel will be allowed to handle and fill the tanks, further driving up the cost. It’s a step towards H2 powered cars, but small step.


17 posted on 08/30/2011 7:15:14 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
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I remember investing in a small cap back in the 90’s that was supposed to be able to store hydrogen. Millennium Cell and its boride storage technology turned into one big goose egg for me.
18 posted on 08/30/2011 7:21:13 PM PDT by TBall
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To: Blood of Tyrants; dirtboy

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-alloy-hydrogen-fuel-sunlight.html


19 posted on 08/30/2011 7:24:08 PM PDT by Red Badger ("Treason doth never prosper.... What's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.")
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Fill'r up.

20 posted on 08/30/2011 7:32:11 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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