Coolio Daddy Dan sends a link to some interesting technology. Now, I'm not one to buy into the "technology will save us" philosophy, but this is very cool. One of the problems with converting to a hydrogen economy is the storage of the fuel (hydrogen). People are working like mad on battery tech (hello Bolivia!) and trying to get fuel cells to be practical (they are, but they cost too much and are prone to breakdowns). And now most of the promising technology to store hydrogen safely and efficiently in a portable fashion (unless you want all our hydrogen cars to have to carry those "Flammable/Explosive" icons on them) has been hideously expensive (like the price of a BMW, one of the nice ones). Well, necessity is the mother of something and some enterprising people at the University of Delaware have come up with a very cost effective method. Chicken feathers. Baked chicken feathers.
Those scientists. They're always thinking. Even when making a late night KFC run.
Large fuels cells just became more practical.
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Forty years I've been in gas technology and that was the first belly laugh I've had in a long time!
Thanks, Steve!
I'm hoping it was for my style of writing, Rick, and not so much their article.
Absolutely, Steve. How could you have any doubts?
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