Hello skeptics, The rejection letters for the hydrogen website seem a bit as far-fetched or understudied as the prospectus. These people say that they sell fueling stations from hydrogen collected from an outside source and that the fueling stations are the focus of their business plan. Since the number one problem with hydrogen collection (as I understand it) is the retention or storage process, then a collection system is a priority in forwarding a hydrogen-based fuel. However, if you have blown this person's cover with understanding "a fake premises" of material to be collected, then you are wise to do so. However, I don't see much discussion on the collection (storage) unit itself, which should be the real issue. Can anyone explain the collection (storage) design potential or any hydrogen collection/ storage design system?
I can't tell you what the deuterium scam artists are planning to do (aside from bilking people out of money), but there are a few ways that hydrogen can be stored. The first is as a gas, either in low pressure containers, or high pressure cylinders. Typically, a cylinder that supplies natural gas for a vehicle stores the gas at roughly 34 Mega Pascals, or 340 atmospheres. Hydrogen suffers from low energy density and only "stores" 1 / 3 the energy of an equivalent volume of natural gas. This means that a vehicle must carry more fuel in multiple cylinders, store more fuel at higher pressure, or suffer even shorter ranges than are typical of a battery EV.
Hydrogen can be liquefied and stored in a dewar. This increases energy density 100 fold, but also carries a significant energy penalty, as liquefaction requires roughly 1 / 3 the energy content of the fuel.
Hydrides are intermetallic compounds that store hydrogen in the interstitial spaces between molecules, absorbing the gas when cool, and releasing it when heated up. These are intrinsically safe, as the reaction is endothermic and will stop quite rapidly if heat is not continuously supplied. However, most hydrides are heavy, expensive, prone to contamination and breakdown of the hydride particles after cycling several thousand times. This would require them to be replaced periodically, adding to the cost of an already expensive storage method.
Another way of "storing" hydrogen involves linking it to another molecule. Borohydrates have been proposed as an interesting solution for this purpose. Carbon atoms also bond with hydrogen quite nicely. God invented plants a long time ago that have been dutifully stripping water molecules of their hydrogen and quietly bonding the element with carbon from animal breath for as long as life has existed on earth. You, of course, already know this. :-)
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