Talking about storage of hydrogen is getting the cart before the horse. where are you going to get the hydrogen?
Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter & Discussion Boards: http://www.green-trust.org Renewable Energy Pages - http://www.webconx.dns2go.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [biofuel] Nanotubes > The materials technology issue I expected to see isn't really here, which is Hydrogen > storage technology. I'm not up on the exact issues here, but I think some of these new > materials have allegedly excellent H2 storage ability. Texaco went to the length of > making their investment in ECD largely for the reason of gaining access to their H2 > storage technology. ECD's materials, for some reason, seem to have good H2 storage > ability with some drawbacks such as weight. I've even heard of a bullet being shot into a > cannister and it not exploding. I'm not saying they're world-beating... I've spoken to > engineers who have found the drawbacks too much (such as having to heat the cannisters to > get the H2 out), I'm just saying that it looked sort of promising. > > The reason I mention all this is that I think that Ovonic's H2 storage is merely sort of a > subset of the overall H2-storage-in-certain-types-of-material-craze of which Bucky Tubes > and Balls and what-not are a larger category. > > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:11:12 +0900, you wrote: > > >I'm allegedly against nanotechnology, which is nonsense, I'm just > >deeply suspicious of the folks who'll be implementing it, with good > >reason, and the allegers are bunch of idiots, IMO. Anyway, I see I > >posted this about 18 months back: > > > > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Sell a Home with Ease! http://us.click.yahoo.com/SrPZMC/kTmEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
