Archives: Hydrogen Fuel Storage

I floated this story out over Twitter a couple of days ago and there was less than a yawn in response. So, I’m going to try again to convey why this new Cryo-Fluid Capacitor (not flux capacitor) technology could be a very big deal for hydrogen fuel cell car lovers. NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has • Read More »

Even though hydrogen fuel tanks holding compressed H2 gas have been proven to be safe, still critics cite safety as one of the top reasons not to buy a fuel cell vehicle. So, in steps UK researchers from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Cardiff plus Saudi Arabia who have created a hydrocarbon wax that • Read More »

Hydrogen storage is one of the biggest issues facing the rollout of fuel cell vehicles. And scientists in Australia and Taiwan may have found the answer in a new molecule named 28copper15hydride. According to Ansto, “Scientists say that the newly-discovered ‘28copper15hydride’ puts us on a path to better understanding hydrogen, and potentially even how to • Read More »

Carbon buckyballs (or fullerenes) were discovered several years ago and hold the promise of hydrogen storage. Now, recently researchers at Brown University have discovered boron buckyballs or as they call them borospherenes that may hold hydrogen atoms as well. According to Brown, “The discovery of buckyballs – soccer-ball-shaped molecules of carbon – helped usher in • Read More »

Scientists at the University of Maryland have created a one-atom thick graphene nanocage that opens and closes to store hydrogen atoms. And the storage capacity of this nanocage already has exceeded Department of Energy’s goals. According to Nanowerks, “Mechanical engineers Shuze Zhu and Teng Li have found that they can make tiny squares of graphene • Read More »

One of the key components on fuel cell cars that scientists have been struggling with for years has been hydrogen storage. Compressing hydrogen gas from 5,000 psi – 10,000 psi presents a lot of challenges. And, so does liquefying H2 gas. So, Peter Schubert and his team of researchers at Indiana University – Purdue University • Read More »

Scientists from around the world are working on ways to storage hydrogen cheaply and efficiently at near room temperatures and as at as near room pressures as one can get. Bonding hydrogen atoms to other materials and them releasing them as needed for fuel for cars has been problematic for years. Italian scientists however think • Read More »

German Energy Group E. ON has decided to take the extra energy created by local wind turbines, use it to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen and store that hydrogen into the country’s current natural gas pipeline system. E. ON expects to be able to store between 5 – 15 percent hydrogen within the pipeline • Read More »