Hydrogen Storage and Applications as a Fuel

Ryland and Nat

 

While exploring hydrogen storage and its potential uses as a fuel, we discovered many innovative and state-of-the-art techniques to storing this element with unlimited potential. The benefits and drawbacks of several methods of hydrogen storage, as well as hydrogen fuel cells, were examined and evaluated. At Northeastern University in Massachusetts, Doctors Nellie Rodriguez and Terry Baker demonstrated their high-tech and novel approach to storing the element. Under extremely high pressure, hydrogen can be forced into a group of graphite fibers molecule by molecule. Since it is so tightly packed, the potential yield of hydrogen is extremely high and thus this technique shows great promise for future applications in environmentally friendly automobiles and power plants. Major automobile companies in the U.S. and abroad have already begun planning vehicles that run on a hydrogen based fuel system, whether by a methanol converter or by a fuel cell. "NeCar" prototypes 1, 2, 3 have been thoroughly tested and shown to be environmentally safe as they yield only water as a by-product.

 

 

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