Hydrogen paste may be an alternative hydrogen fuel for fuel cell vehicles to filling up with compressed hydrogen gas.
Created by The Fraunhofer Institute, this particular substance has become noted as a ‘revolutionary’ development in the auto industry.
How would hydrogen paste work in practice?
The process would mean that instead of having to fill up hydrogen fuel tanks drivers would need to swap out H2 paste cartridges. That would be a much easier process to manufacture, sell, and then distribute.
Institute research associate Dr. Marcus Vogt says, “POWERPASTE stores hydrogen in a chemical form at room temperature and atmospheric pressure to be then released on demand … POWERPASTE… has a huge energy storage density. It is substantially higher than that of a 700-bar high-pressure tank. And compared to batteries, it has ten times the energy storage density.”
The ability to simply swap out an H2 cartridge and then fill up a water tank would allow for much easier development of high-quality substances.
The development of an affordable and available hydrogen paste could arrive much sooner than what we might expect.
Who would have thought 20 years ago that paste + water could mean a 300 mile range for vehicles today? And yet, here we are.
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