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Chicken Feathers May Hold Key To Hydrogen Storage

Posted by timothy on from the horsefeathers-not-yet-ruled-out dept.

pitterpatter writes "A researcher trying to find a use for them claims that after being heated enough to carbonize, chicken feathers hold as much hydrogen as carbon nanotubes do. So chicken feather charcoal might solve the storage problem for the new hydrogen economy. One problem down, half a zillion to go."

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  1. Re:A theoretically practical solar-powered car by Shag · · Score: 0, Redundant

    we'll never see cars powered in "real time" by the sun

    Of course not - that would require some sort of imaginary magical "photo-voltaic" device to turn sunlight into electricity, and the priest and the village alchemist both tell me that's blasphemous foolishness.

    ... So what was it you meant to say?

    --
    Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.