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Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets
sunbeam60 writes "A group of scientists are going to present their breakthrough in hydrogen storage this Wednesday. In contrast to previous storage mechanisms, this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature. While bound in this medium no hydrogen loss occurs, enabling hydrogen to be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. When needed, the extraction of hydrogen is relatively simple. The pellets exceed all criteria set by the US Department of Energy for 2015, enabling a car to drive more than 500 km on a 50 L tank (13 MJ/l)"
If you crash into another car, do you get to steal the car's pellet and absorb its power?
The new pellets could also bring about a renaissance for giant hydrogen-filled airships, or as they will now be known, beanbags.
... they decided to coat these pellets with a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder.
COAL!
I won't be buying any of their power pellets if they taste terrible.
If I feed this to my dog, will he fart lightning?
Now all we need is science to invent a 4 wheeled giant hamster that seats 4. If she goes 0-60 in 2, even cooler.
We can park them hamster wheels and sell back the energy to the city!
Ah the list of stupid ideas is endless.
There could be some interesting side effects if you swallowed one...
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Meets all the criteria.
If he was really up to that task, he would have posted his reply twice.
Slashdot doesn't need editors that don't take that initiative!
I too have come up with a scheme to
* bind hydrogen
* that is completely safe at room temperature
* has no loss of hydrogen
* thus enabling cheap storage
* allows for simple extraction of hydrogen
I use a proprietary process involving oxygen. I'm not at liberty to give more details until the patent is issued.
If he was really up to that task, he would have posted his reply twice.
Slashdot doesn't need editors that don't take that initiative!
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It's about 23 mi/gal. Of course I used the conversion factor 20oz=591mL right off my Mountain Dew bottle.
What if I swallow one? Is it non-toxic?
Make 'em as toxic as possible and let natural selection do its thing. It'll clean up the gene pool for the rest of us.
We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked.
I assume, as you aren't an editor, you have ascended to Royalty in your usage of the Royal We. Let me be the first to Welcome our new /. bashing Overlord.
If you could give me somekind of pointer on how to ascend to Your Highness, I would be forever grateful.
I look forward to Your Highness first "We are not amused post.
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Cohen
It seems that they use a catalyst to break the solid down, and release the hydrogen gas.
At least according to this <sarcasm> informative diagram</sarcasm>
So my wife's hydorgen Rabbit can be littlering the roadside with pellets. :-D
"Enjoy what you're doing! If it becomes drudgery, you're doing it wrong!" - Jim Butterfield
would be to figure out a way to extract and ignite the hydrogen upon impact. Then we could shoot these from a gun. It would be a really neat and new way to kill people.
Surly PacMan had the idea of pellets as a fuel source several years before this. If only Ms PacMan had of nagged him to register the patent they could of got someone in to rid them of Blinky et al.
Everyone knows that since gas has risen $1 in the last 45 days, it will continue to do so at exactly the same pace forever, so gas will be $83 per gallon within 10 years.
Obviously,there are no other factors that should be considered.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
So if everybody eats enough to double their weight, the resulting efficiency would be dramatically increased. (Meanwhile, having cleverly intuited this for themselves, many people in the US have already begun the process ...)
+10 Karma for one comment. I nominate tgd for president of the world.
Dihydrogen monoxide is one of the most dangerous substances known to science!
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Sorry, I'm only a 1336 h4x0r.
-1 "I didn't get the joke"
I prefer to use hydrogen hydroxide. It's less harmful, but still has the kick I need.
WARNING
DO NOT INGEST!!!
Can J. Robert Oppenhiemer claim prior art on multi-car pileups?
Watch out for the Karma Police.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Power Pellets!
Wakka-wakka-wakka-wakka
i'd hit it so hard, if you pulled me out you'd be the king of britain [bash.org]
*Sound of brains asploding*
We better just tell them they're "Magic Pellets"
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
"50% conversion efficiency of fuel energy to electricity in large power plant.
66% conversion efficiency of electrolysis to make hydrogen.
66% conversion efficiency of making electricity in fuel cell.
95% conversion efficiency of electricity to motive power.
35% conversion efficiency of internal combustion to motive power."
So, when I finally want to drive my car, it is 50 + 66 + 66 + 95 + 35 = 312% of inefficiency! My God! My Car will drive backwards at more then three times the normal speed!!
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Uh, spit is the metric measurement. Loogie is imperial.