The economics of hydrogen will become dominated by distribution costs. Hydrogen leaks.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a big deal, but with everyone focused on Tesla and batteries, it > will be overlooked by the Press. > > Fuel cells have always been promising, due to higher efficiency and no > pollution - but never really able to capture a market share. Now one huge > remaining obstacle has been tackled. This vehicle is only available in LA > but they will sell thousands of them in SoCal, since many commuters down > there will save most of the lease cost by having free hydrogen. > > http://www.gizmag.com/2015-hyundai-tucson-fuel-cell-free-hydrogen/32488/ > > Of course, this would not be possible without cheap hydrogen, which is due > to cheap methane, which is due to the oversupply of the shale gas bonanza, > and for now - which is only in the USA... but ... the breakthrough can tie > in nicely to a future LENR changeover. > > Of course - at some future time, "Sam" will tax hydrogen, but that is years > away since the tree-huggers love hydrogen and they are a single issue > voting > bloc in California. They conveniently overlook that hydrogen comes from > natural gas which does have some negatives. > > Since the Hyundai drive train has to be completely electrical, in order to > work with the fuel cell - that means that the same platform (used with the > hydrogen fuel cell) would be instantly adaptable to a version of LENR where > direct electrical conversion was implemented. It could be almost as simple > as a swap. > > Direct electrical conversion is not being talked about in a serious way in > LENR so far - but look again at the picture of the hot cat Mats Lewan > posted. That IR glow is photonic, and there are photocells which are > tailored for IR, but none are efficient enough, for now. > > Prevenslik's old paper suggests a way. Proximity effects are most > interesting. In fact, the HotCat itself is probably functioning on another > kind of proximity effect - SPP. This paper could be 10 years ahead of its > time. > > > http://www.asian-energy-journal.info/Abstract/The%20cavity%20qed%20induced%2 > 0thermophotovoltaic%20effect.pdf > > As for picking investment winners based on a positive Rossi report - this > is > another reason not to go with steam conversion companies IMO. I would be > looking at a maker of flexible quantum dot solar cells like ... err...Apple > (http://bgr.com/2014/06/11/new-solar-cell-tech-colloidal-quantum-dots/). > > Anyway, given that IR photocells are available now - it is only a matter of > time before someone figures out how to incorporate the proximity effect for > efficient direct conversion, and at that point if you own one of the fuel > cell vehicles, which you have already paid for with free hydrogen - then > you > can pull out the fuel cell and drop in a HotCat with IR converter. > > ... or not... :-) > > Jones > > > >
