Posted on 04/14/2023 9:52:05 AM PDT by Perseverando
A Toyota Project Portal hydrogen fuel cell electric semi-truck is shown during an event in San Francisco, Calif., on Sept. 13, 2018. (Stephen Lam/Reuters)
Researchers have come up with a new system that turns seawater into hydrogen fuel—a development that could aid in the proliferation of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
The new method extracts hydrogen from the ocean by funneling seawater through a double membrane system, using electricity. The design was successful in generating hydrogen gas without the accompaniment of large quantities of harmful byproducts.
Vehicles with hydrogen fuel cells are fed with compressed hydrogen gas. The fuel cells do not burn this gas. Instead, cells transform the chemical energy of the fuel into electrical energy, which then powers the vehicle’s electric motors. The only byproduct is pure water, with zero tailpipe emissions.
“Many water-to-hydrogen systems today try to use a monolayer or single-layer membrane. Our study brought two layers together,” said Adam Nielander, an associate staff scientist with the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, a SLAC-Stanford joint institute, according to an April 11 news release.
“These membrane architectures allowed us to control the way ions in seawater moved in our experiment,” he added. Results of the study were published in the Joule journal on April 11.
The Double Membrane System Researchers tested out their double membrane system using electrolysis—a method that uses electricity to drive ions to run a desired reaction. The most harmful element to the seawater system is chloride, says Joseph Perryman, a SLAC and Stanford postdoctoral researcher.
“There are many reactive species in seawater that can interfere with the water-to-hydrogen reaction, and the sodium chloride that makes seawater salty is one of the main culprits,” he said.
“In particular, chloride that gets to the anode and oxidizes will reduce the
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Will China, internation big oil and the oligarchs snatch up the patents on this sea water hydrogen fuel cell technology to maintain their strangle hold on energy production?
Pass the salt. Good only for those hoax deniers with mansions on the beach? Should lower sea levels.
They also found that hydrogen-powered drones have 10 to 20 times the range and the ability to instantly refuel when powered by hydrogen
Where does the electricity come from?
Interesting. I hadn't heard that.
New Tech Transforms Sea Water Into Hydrogen Fuel for Cars; This miracle system produces more energy than it uses or perpetual motion discovered.
That is usually how it’s done with a monopoly wanting to hold on to it’s cornered market. A lot of great and creative inventions have probably been ‘put to sleep’ in this way.
“...Where does the electricity come from?...”
Well, you know.....the thing!!! Woke Unicorn farts.
Which is produced from burning evil fossil fuels.
H also like to rapidly expand when heated.
I’ll reserve my applause until they can prove this is efficient energy. You can’t get more energy out than you put in without a natural potential energy source providing the difference.
My hunch is that the apparent hydrolysis process that this entails requires massive amounts of energy input. Just rearranging the furniture in the room, essentially.
What is the ERoEI and where do you get the electricity?
Yes. I noticed that.
How much energy does it take to extract the hydrogen? A lot more than you get out of it I’ll bet. This is the achilles heel of most of these “alternatives”.
Hydrogen would be better than driving around with these lithium time bombs. The question is how to make it economical.
When I read “hydrogen fueled cars”, I see an implicit argument for mass adoption of nuclear power plants. The hydrogen is just a mechanism for storing and transporting that power.
And where does that electricity come from?
“Where does the electricity come from? “
Directly from JF’nK and the EPA.
The electricity to energize this process will be generated by (wait for it)...
Fossil Fuels!
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