The hydrogen is actually stored in metal hydride pellets or powder. The metal hydride absorbs and desorbs the hydrogen and is non cumbustible. Gas and propane are more flammable than hydrogen and I have some propane in my basement already.
Now the trick here would be to have a system that can reinfuse the hydrogen into the pellets when power is available.
Well if we get to the point where we can make hydrogen cheaply enough to use in fuel cells we should be close to the point where we can make bucky balls cheaply, we could use them to store the hydrogen in.
The C60 molecule can also absorb large numbers of hydrogen atoms--almost one hydrogen for each carbon--without disrupting the buckyball structure. This property suggests that fullerenes may be a better storage medium for hydrogen than metal hydrides, the best current material, and hence possibly a key factor in the development of new batteries and even of non-polluting automobiles based on fuel cells.
They obviously can't install modems that work [avsforum.com].
I had a modem fry on my Tivo. It gave me incentive to start learning linux which I had put off for too long.
The decision to go with cheaper modem parts is actually part of the insidious anti-microsoft conspiracy. Your modem dies and you want to enable ppp over the serial port instead of shelling out 100 bucks for Philip's to fix it.
Seriously though, it is understandable that a company could screw up on the modem parts when they started designing these motherboards. The modem issue was not discovered until enough machines went out into the field and encountered real telephone lines with real voltage spikes.
The software engineering is not too shabby. They put together a pretty robust system for only having 16 meg of RAM and a 50 Mhz PowerPC chip to work with.
I was very skeptical of the Tivo until I got one. I'd still like to get a replay4000 but I might just install an ethernet card on my Tivos and save 800 bucks.
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The hydrogen is actually stored in metal hydride pellets or powder. The metal hydride absorbs and desorbs the hydrogen and is non cumbustible. Gas and propane are more flammable than hydrogen and I have some propane in my basement already.
Now the trick here would be to have a system that can reinfuse the hydrogen into the pellets when power is available.
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You she bitch of a goat's gizzard!
You distasteful snout of an eel's bladder!
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MD's would have done much better if they marketed them as PC drives too. If they had done such a thing I doubt zip drives would have ever taken off.
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