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To: Flavius
http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/h2products.htm 3. The 3rd option is simply the only way to go. There are materials call Hydrides that absorb Hydrogen like a sponge absorbs water. Typically, the tanks are filled with granulated Hydrides, and Hydrogen is pressurized into the material. Hydrides have many advantages over liquid & gas. One is that the density of the Hydrogen stored in the Hydride can be GREATER than that of liquid Hydrogen. This translates directly into smaller and fewer storage tanks. Once the Hydride is "charged" with Hydrogen, the Hydrogen becomes chemically bonded to the chemical. Even opening the tank, or cutting it in half will not release the Hydrogen gas. In addition, you could even fire incendiary bullets through the tank and the Hydride would only smolder like a cigarette. It is in fact, a safer storage system than your Gasoline tank is.

Then how do you get the Hydrogen back out? To release the Hydrogen gas from the Hydride, it simply needs to be heated. This is either done electrically, using the waste exhaust heat, or using the waste radiator coolant heat.


2 posted on 05/14/2006 6:46:48 PM PDT by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Flavius

the thing that sort of worries me is how much 401k is in the energy sector.

A market correction is being predicted.


3 posted on 05/14/2006 6:48:43 PM PDT by Perdogg (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
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My brand new Hyundai Sonata (assembled in Birmingham, Alabama with 28% American made parts) is designed to burn gasoline, or alcohol, or a combination thereof.

This, rather than the so-called "hybrid" is the current wave of the future.

7 posted on 05/14/2006 7:00:20 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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Company link?

I think i've heard about this before, and it has something to do with eXPENSIVE RARE materials.


12 posted on 05/14/2006 7:54:20 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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