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To: Boot Hill

Hydrogen will be carried in an absorptive material inside a tank. Neither high pressure nor cryogenic tanks will be needed.


32 posted on 08/14/2004 10:17:26 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
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To: RightWhale
“Hydrogen will be carried in an absorptive material inside a tank.”

I addressed the issue of storage as a gas because the article only spoke of that means of storage.

Nevertheless, there is no weight or volume advantage to storing hydrogen in another material. No matter the material you use, you will either drastically increase weight, volume or (more likely) both.

For example (since you didn't identify any specific material), here is what happens when you use a metal hydride as a storage medium for hydrogen:   The metal hydride storage will be 20 times heavier and nearly 3 times the volume than an equal energy-quantity of gasoline.

In the example using a 12 gallon gasoline tank, that means your fuel would now weigh more than 1,500 pounds! You'd be better off sticking with the high pressure tanks (gag)!

--Boot Hill

34 posted on 08/15/2004 2:09:05 AM PDT by Boot Hill (Candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo, candy-gram for Osama bin Mongo!!!)
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