Comments on: Metal Alloy Hydrogen Tank is 60% Lighter Than a Battery

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:28:06 +0000

If the big three were not OPEC controlled, and if Exxon et. al., were not OPEC controlled, if the boards of these and other “American” companies were free to do so without offending major shareholders like the Saudis . . . America could produce and use fast light Euro-style diesels instead of gas engines. Euro-diesels are up to 40% more efficient than gas engines and DO NOT require additives or cracking to burn fuel, two major areas of savings for American customers and a FORTY PERCENT REDUCTION in fuel costs across the board. Modern well tuned diesels with scrubbers do not stink and are safer and longer lasting than gasoline engines – a fact! Instead, we stick our heads up our nether-parts and pray for an “Obama Miracle” a miracle where we don’t have to change, and everything will be alright! It Ain’t gonna happen that way America! The humongous social and economical paradigm shifts driven by the (GRD) great republican depression are just starting to be felt by the unemployed or otherwise disenfranchised in America! Before the GRD is done with us, even the “American Dream” will have undergone changes we can’t even imagine now! All of this is in the face of China’s unending, self-regenerating, 55 cent and hour, 14 hour a day, 7 day a week army of female workers, trained already by GM to build Buick Lesabre’s and ready to fill the docks at Shanghai with Eco-Box cars to be sold on the American market for $6000.00 a copy at a Walmart near you! Safe H2 tanks are to be applauded, but too little, too late, to say the least! The Hydrogen economy will remain, lost in the nether-realms with cold fusion, fission and stellar death rays, expensive fiction at best, breeders of false hopes at worst.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:28:00 +0000

By: Jim Horwitz

Jim Horwitz — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:56:50 +0000

You fuel your Honda Calrity (if you happen to be Jamie Lee Curtis) from your Honda Home Energy Station (if you happen to live in Latham, NY near Plug Power) which produces 1 kW of power for your home, heat for your hot water needs, and hydrogen for your fuel cell vehicle all from your current natural gas connection (if you happen to live in Arizona). There are also commercial demonstration hydrogen fueling stations in California that use solar cell driven electrolysis to make hydrogen for fuel cell and H2 ICE buses. Rest assured, cost is still the biggest problem.

By: Jim Horwitz

Jim Horwitz — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:56:00 +0000

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:00:24 +0000

It’s significant because it could meet the DOE 2010 goals to create materials capable of holding 6% of their weight in hydrogen for hydrogen storage.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:00:00 +0000

It’s significant because it could meet the DOE 2010 goals to create materials capable of holding 6% of their weight in hydrogen for hydrogen storage.

By: Ray The Money Man

Ray The Money Man — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:45:35 +0000

How do we fuel a Hydrogen powered car at home? That is the one draw back. It still centralizes fueling, leaving us at the mercy of….whoever. In Arizona we would take Natural Gas in a heart beat since our homes are all piped.

By: Ray The Money Man

Ray The Money Man — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:45:00 +0000