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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Re:How does it come out?

[moro_666]

omg dude, where the hell did you graduate (if at all ?)

since when is pure water a greenhouse gas ? you seem to pretty sure that all clouds / snow / rain are products of greenhouse effect ?

according to your assumptions, how do you think do the countries near equator survive where tons of water is turning into steam by sun every second ... ? billions tons of ocean water is evaporating every year, it seems if as we survive that one ... at least we did until your post here ...

go calculate how much water evaporates from newyork's high tower buildings every morning when the sun rises ...

and fyi: burning gasoline produces tons of water too (gasoline molecul formulas are between C6H14 and C12H26, and a good "medium" compound is C8H18, so if you burn this with oxygen, you get more water molecules than you get CO2), and we have survived that one too, so if we can skip burning the carbon and get rid of massive CO2 production, we're at least one step closer to a cleaner world than we are now.

you definetly over estimate the gas production of cars and underestimate our other bad habits (power stations, local heat stations, you can probably continue the list here...)

i agree that currently hydrogen is mostly extracted from water with power of fossil/nuclear fuel ... but it is possible to make hydrogen also with sun/wind power, which doesnt affect the climate in any measurable amount when compared to fossil/nuclear methods.

and as a positive point to all of this, the planet is overcrowded with humans that create pollution on every step that they make. the overgrowing doesnt seem to be slowing down and neither do we speed down the amount of energy we use each day (depressively this number is rising every day). so just face it, we are doomed. if we get lucky, the bird flu will give us a slight break ...