“Truly Mind-Boggling” Breakthrough: Graphene Surprise Could Help Generate Hydrogen Cheaply and Sustainably

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[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hate the fluffy junk titles of science research publications...

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Peter Zeihan brought up a very good point about infrastructure with regard to hydrogen. Are we even close to being able to support these vehicles. Not just from a fueling perspective, but from a safety perspective. I can only imagine what a car accident with hydrogen tanks would be like. Is he wrong?

[–]SoCo[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Safety being a challenge with hydrogen is the no-brain'er first thought everyone gets, when considering the Hindenburg of fuels....but that is quickly dispelled, when considering how long we've been working with hydrogen now.

Safe hydrogen is easy! It just takes massively heavy and thick tanks! From there we've worked to maintain the same safety and capacity, with increasingly lighter and cheaper tanks.

You can see how the US Dept. of Energy's older FreedomCar initiative from 2007'ish, set goals to improve onboard hydrogen storage for light vehicles. It set vehicle hydrogen tank goals to gradually reduce the weight of the system, increase the density of storage, reduce the cost, and reduce refueling time.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks for this!