C.En (Clean Energy) of Israel has discovered a new way to store hydrogen that will aid in the acceleration of rolling out hydrogen cars en mass to the public. While other manufacturers are using heavy metals, carbon fiber or metal hydrides to store hydrogen gas, C.En has figured out a way to use glass to […]
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BMW has announced a breakthrough in hydrogen storage for automobiles. The BMW Hydrogen 7 can now use cryo-compression to store either gaseous or liquid hydrogen inside super-insulated tanks.
Before this breakthrough, the liquid hydrogen being super-cooled in the tank was subject to the “boil off” effect where a tank of fuel could evaporate in just a […]
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In October 2007, I had talked about how a group of researchers had discovered that fullerenes hold great promise for hydrogen storage. These nano-scale fullerenes (also known as buckyballs) are the subject of a new article published by researchers at Rice University in the upcoming journal Nano Letters from the American Chemical Society.
These large, carbon […]
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I’ve talked many times in the past about chemical storage of hydrogen. On December 5 I had talked about a group of ESRF researchers developing lithium borohydride as a storage solution for hydrogen cars using hydrogen-on-demand technology.
Now, Ford and UCLA have teamed up to develop lithium borohydride (LiBH4), magnesium hydride (MgH2) and lithium amide (LiNH2) […]
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have discovered a new porous polymer that holds promise for hydrogen storage. Frantisek Svec and colleagues from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a highly porous polyaniline in a mesh-like structure that has immense surface area and a strong affinity for hydrogen molecules.
The new polyaniline mesh has […]
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A new study in nanotechnology gives hope to solving the hydrogen storage problem. The safety concerns of storing hydrogen under high pressures is well documented, so many scientists have been working on storing the gas under low pressure methods. So far, chemical storage and storage with metal hydrides offers hope in this area.
Now, there may […]
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Yesterday, I was contacted by Michael Jehan from MCP technologies who said his company has developed a novel magnesium hydride storage solution for hydrogen to be used in automobiles with internal combustion engines (ICE). The MgH2 solution uses nano-structure powders to absorb the hydrogen then release it as needed for the vehicle.
I asked Mr. Jehan […]
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Over the past couple of months, I’ve talked about how ammonia-fueled cars may be the hydrogen cars of the future. Ammonia is a hydrogen-rich chemical compound that when activated is able to release its hydrogen to a fuel cell to power a vehicle.
Ammonia is now back in the news as a hydrogen-storage method that can […]
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Well, if geeks may one day rule the world, it may just be the Greek geeks that are leading the pack. A group of Greek scientists at the University of Crete have discovered a method to store hydrogen using carbon nanotechnology.
Currently, most hydrogen cars use hydrogen stored in highly compressed form between 5,000 psi and […]
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As a Southern California Edison customer and a hydrogen car advocate, it’s exciting for me when my local power company steps up to the plate and becomes the first utility in the nation to study the feasibility of commercial clean coal technology.
So. Cal. Edison is proposing regulatory approval from the state of California to conduct […]
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