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)"

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Wow

[squiggleslash]

I don't think the rumour mills predicted anything like this for today's announcement. Generally the focus was on a cellphone that runs iTunes, which may be a nice idea, but, well, it hardly justified Apple's tagline "1,000 songs in your pocket changed everything. Here we go again". A safe, easily transportable, hydrogen system beats all of that hands down.

If this is really what Jonathan Ives, Avie Tevanian, et al, have been working on over the last few years, then I'm impressed. But will they call it the iPellet?

Hydrogen reminds me of Houston

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I'm thinking about heading over to the Astrodome.

Not to assist people, I could give a rat's ass about that shit. It's just that watching CNN gives me an erection. Just the thought of those thousands of big beautiful black women all in one place. Those MILFs turn me on. I've never "split the great black oak" if you know what I mean, but damn I sure do want to.

Check out the caboose on some of those babes. Junk in the trunk indeed. Baby got back! And daddy want!! Mmm, daddy like!! I like them thick and round, brothers. It's like banging Louis Jefferson. Damn straight I'm down with that.

Astrodome here I come!! Make that the ASStrodome!

Re:You should be an editor

[Xhris]

Rob, hire this guy and others like him to make your site a non-joke.

If this site is so bad, why are u here reading and posting comments??

Re:You should be an editor

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude- stop sniffing trip master monkey's jock strap. Jesus. When did Slashdot get so damn gay?
I am going to get some work done, while you two blow each other.

Re:You should be an editor

[MondoMor]

Because it's funny to watch something that could be so cool go so horribly wrong due to the ineptitude of the people running it.

If it wasn't for Rob's stunning inability to be good at what he does, this site would just be an information source.

But now it's just a huge, fun joke.

Speaking of innovations..

[CyricZ]

OSNews has posted an article describing a laptop with a 6.8 GHz laptop processor and over 1 TB of RAM and solid-state storage.

If combined with this hydrogen-based technology, we could be on the very edge of a massive breakthrough in computing power. Imagine a laptop that could run for years, literally, on several of these hydrogen pellets. Now imagine a laptop with the specs of the aforementioned laptop. Such a system would be, to put it bluntly, a revolution on personal computing.

Now let's bring it to the desktop. Suppose you fit four, or even eight, of the processors capable of 6.8 GHz into a typical PC desktop. Power it with these hydrogen pellets, removing any dependency on the power grid (potentially reducing costs magnificently). You'll basically be bringing the power of supercomputing to all computer owners.

When you consider what a company like Apple, or the Linux and *BSD projects, can accomplish today with our meager (in comparison) systems, it would be absolutely fantastic to see what they could achieve with such vast amounts of processing power and RAM.

Re:And we shall call these pellets...

[Alex P Keaton in da]

And on a related note- Sugar in your gas tank won't hurt your motor- It will just clog your fuel filter and your car won't run due to a clogged fuel filter. And even if it gets past the filter and into the motor, it won't hurt the motor.
Wait- is this offtopic? Can anything be offtopic when the posted article is so bad that there is nothing to reply to, except to point out its shortcomings?

Re:How does it come out?

[too_poland]

See this ring near a drop? Put it on pointing finger, swallow a drop and be frodo on steroids. 100mph guaranteed, but please read the recipe first.

Re:You should be an editor

[BarryNorton]

If this site is so bad, why are u here reading and posting comments??

Maybe because watching a train crash is good entertainment on a lazy unproductive afternoon... that's my excuse!

Re:And we shall call these pellets...

[caronc]

I think it's pretty obvious: ENERGON

Careful though when you fill up on it, those damn Autobots might show up and blow everything up!!

But try again.. and they will blow it up again!

Wash, rince, repeat and make it a TV series!

I'll dupe that!

[Anonymous Coward]

He should replace Zonk. Seriously, he could really do something great for slashdot. Bring back its golden years or something.

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Bonk the Zonk!
Trolling all trolls since 2001

Re:Hydrogen

[narcc]

I'm sure if Dubya hears about it, he'll personally head up an investigation into why the chemical industry should be scrapped as it removes the need for more oil and hence the need to invade middle-eastern countries.

[Assuming you're joking] He (GWB) could always just invade middle-eastern countries for sport while Pat Robertson is busy assassinating the president of Venezuela...