RE: [cdn-nucl-l] Hydrogen fuel firms agree to merge

["Adam Mclean" <adam.mclean@utoronto.ca>]

Hi Randal,

There are many ways to store hydrogen outside of just compressing it: metal
hybrids, liquid hybrids, carbon nanotubes, and onboard hydrogen reforming.

One example of a metal hydride hydrogen storage approach - check this out:
www.safehydrogen.com
Easy to store at room temperature and pressure, non explosive, non
flammable, non corrosive, transportable through pipes, fully recyclable and
environmentally safe byproducts.

Adam

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Subject: Re: [cdn-nucl-l] Hydrogen fuel firms agree to merge

Adam Mclean wrote:

> Hydrogen fuel firms agree to merge
> Hydrogenics takes over Stuart Energy All-stock deal worth $155 million

They can merge all they want - they still don't have the answer.

Hydrogen is very difficult to store, and explodes brilliantly when it 
gets out.  It cannot be transported through pipes - it corrodes the 
pipes too quickly.  If a large leak occurs the hydrogen will rise to 
the top of the atmosphere and destroy the ozone layer in seconds.  You 
won't have time to even put your sunglasses on.  And hydrogen fuel 
cells pump out water vapour as an exhaust - and it is a greenhouse gas 
too.  You can't get hydrogen without building nuclear reactors first, 
and once you have reactors you don't need hydrogen.

OK - so what is the answer?  First CANDU reactors for all our 
stationary energy requirements - cooking, heating, cooling, and 
appliances.  For mobile needs (transportation, robots, bionic 
implants) we need a power cell of some kind that plugs into the grid 
to be recharged, and then generates electrical energy without 
producing any air borne pollution.  Zinc based power cells are 
candidates for this use.

In the vehicle:
Zinc + oxygen produces electricity and zinc-oxide (a solid).

In the recharging station:
Zinc-oxide + electricity produces zinc and oxygen.

No net change in atmosphere.

Actually, I don't care what metal is used as long as the atmosphere is 
not changed.

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