Hydrogen Stored in Safe High Density Pellets

sunbeam60 writes "A group of scientists are going to present their breakthrough in hydrogen storage this Wednesday. In contrast to previous storage mechanisms, this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature. While bound in this medium no hydrogen loss occurs, enabling hydrogen to be stored cheaply for indefinite periods. When needed, the extraction of hydrogen is relatively simple. The pellets exceed all criteria set by the US Department of Energy for 2015, enabling a car to drive more than 500 km on a 50 L tank (13 MJ/l)"

Power

[b00tleg]

If you crash into another car, do you get to steal the car's pellet and absorb its power?

Airships

[mrogers]

The new pellets could also bring about a renaissance for giant hydrogen-filled airships, or as they will now be known, beanbags.

Tragically...

[Waffle Iron]

... they decided to coat these pellets with a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder.

And we shall call these pellets...

[utexaspunk]

COAL!

Are they chewable?

[DaFork]

I won't be buying any of their power pellets if they taste terrible.

I Wonder

[.tardo.]

If I feed this to my dog, will he fart lightning?

Re:Are they chewable?

[markov_chain]

I wouldn't eat those if I were you. They could give you gas.

*rimshot*

Pellets!?

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

Now all we need is science to invent a 4 wheeled giant hamster that seats 4. If she goes 0-60 in 2, even cooler.

We can park them hamster wheels and sell back the energy to the city!

Ah the list of stupid ideas is endless.

Everyone out of the elevator now!

[NotFamous]

There could be some interesting side effects if you swallowed one...

No. ICE CUBES

[MondoMor]

Meets all the criteria.

Re:You should be an editor

[tgd]

If he was really up to that task, he would have posted his reply twice.

Slashdot doesn't need editors that don't take that initiative!

all wet

[tjic]

I too have come up with a scheme to

* bind hydrogen
* that is completely safe at room temperature
* has no loss of hydrogen
* thus enabling cheap storage
* allows for simple extraction of hydrogen

I use a proprietary process involving oxygen. I'm not at liberty to give more details until the patent is issued.

Re:Power

[tdemark]

Actually, if you crash hard enough, you will form Helium pellets.

Re:You should be an editor

[tgd]

If he was really up to that task, he would have posted his reply twice.

Slashdot doesn't need editors that don't take that initiative!

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Re:Other measurements

[Non Dufus]

It's about 23 mi/gal. Of course I used the conversion factor 20oz=591mL right off my Mountain Dew bottle.

Re:Using Hydrogen to power your car

[Kevin DeGraaf]

What if I swallow one? Is it non-toxic?

Make 'em as toxic as possible and let natural selection do its thing. It'll clean up the gene pool for the rest of us.

Re:all wet

[ntsucks]

"* that is completely safe at room temperature"

Unless your city is below sea level

Royal TripMaster Monkey to You

[Quirk]

"...we'd appreciate less speculation in the future."

I assume, as you aren't an editor, you have ascended to Royalty in your usage of the Royal We. Let me be the first to Welcome our new /. bashing Overlord.

If you could give me somekind of pointer on how to ascend to Your Highness, I would be forever grateful.

I look forward to Your Highness first "We are not amused post.

Re:How does it come out?

[ikkonoishi]

It seems that they use a catalyst to break the solid down, and release the hydrogen gas.

At least according to this <sarcasm> informative diagram [amminex.com]</sarcasm>

I can't wait for the VW conversion kit...

[JoeCommodore]

So my wife's hydorgen Rabbit can be littlering the roadside with pellets. :-D

The next logical step

[tsmithnj]

would be to figure out a way to extract and ignite the hydrogen upon impact. Then we could shoot these from a gun. It would be a really neat and new way to kill people.

Muching Pelletts - PacMan

[Calathea]

Surly PacMan had the idea of pellets as a fuel source several years before this. If only Ms PacMan had of nagged him to register the patent they could of got someone in to rid them of Blinky et al.

Re:And we shall call these pellets...

[ozmanjusri]

Sorry, but sugar is (relatively) pure carbon.

Well, this lump I have here seems to have 12 carbon atoms, 22 hydrogen atoms and 11 oxygen atoms. Maybe you've microwaved yours a little too long

Re:Other measurements

[Pharmboy]

Everyone knows that since gas has risen $1 in the last 45 days, it will continue to do so at exactly the same pace forever, so gas will be $83 per gallon within 10 years.

Obviously,there are no other factors that should be considered.

Solution!

[Bearpaw]

Now, lets just look at the problem. We currently jump into a car weighing 1500 kg, running a 20% efficient motor, to transport an 80 kg person. This is an efficiency of 1.01%, which is what the problem really is.

So if everybody eats enough to double their weight, the resulting efficiency would be dramatically increased. (Meanwhile, having cleverly intuited this for themselves, many people in the US have already begun the process ...)

Re:Power

[The Wooden Badger]

If you crash into another car, do you get to steal the car's pellet and absorb its power?

Only if you chop off its head.

Re:You should be an editor

[imnojezus]

+10 Karma for one comment. I nominate tgd for president of the world.

Re:How does it come out?

[Bohnanza]

Dihydrogen monoxide [dhmo.org] is one of the most dangerous substances known to science!

Re:Tragically...

[jimand]

Modded funny? This sounds like flamebait to me.

Little slow on the uptake, are we?

[Anonymous Coward]

-1 "I didn't get the joke"

Re:How does it come out?

[wild_berry]

I prefer to use hydrogen hydroxide. It's less harmful, but still has the kick I need.

Warning Label

[Skudd]

WARNING
DO NOT INGEST!!!

Q: Re:Power

[JonTurner]

Can J. Robert Oppenhiemer claim prior art on multi-car pileups?

Re:You should be an editor

[goldspider]

Watch out for the Karma Police [greenplastic.com].

Power Pellets

[bar-agent]

Power Pellets!

Wakka-wakka-wakka-wakka

LOL

[SatanicPuppy]

*Sound of brains asploding*

We better just tell them they're "Magic Pellets"

Re:And we shall call these pellets...

[nganju]

You call 45 atoms a lump of sugar? Try sweetening your coffee with that.

My god! Negative energy!

[N3wsByt3]

"50% conversion efficiency of fuel energy to electricity in large power plant.
66% conversion efficiency of electrolysis to make hydrogen.
66% conversion efficiency of making electricity in fuel cell.
95% conversion efficiency of electricity to motive power.
35% conversion efficiency of internal combustion to motive power."

So, when I finally want to drive my car, it is 50 + 66 + 66 + 95 + 35 = 312% of inefficiency! My God! My Car will drive backwards at more then three times the normal speed!!

Re:Power

[/dev/trash]

But teh car is still somehow immortal!

Re:What's that in American?

[JohnsonWax]

Uh, spit is the metric measurement. Loogie is imperial.