Gas price control

[mark koenig]

I think the Hydrogen storage problem has been solved. Check out a company
called Energy Conversion Devices at: 

http://www.ovonic.com/hydrogen/products.html

They have invented a solid hydrogen storage system that stores hydrogen
atoms in a solid metal hydride. Thanks to some quirks of science that go
way over my head, they can store hydrogen at a density of 103 grams/liter,
whereas liquid hydrogen contains only 71 grams/liter, and compressed 
(@5000psi) hydrogen has only 31 grams/liter.  They're building plants
right now to mass produce their systems.

I'm also led to believe they're the inventors of NiMH battery technology,
and all NiMH batteries are made under license from them.  These people seem
to know what they're doing.

The company is headed up by Robert Stempel, former head honcho at GM.

I'd be curious what others think of their systems. No, I don't work for 
them, but I wish I did.  Or at least owned a bunch of their stock.


Mark K.


Eric Bryant wrote:
> 
> I don't think that tuning is necessarly the biggest hurdle.  Trying to
> package a high-pressure fuel system in a vehicle is one of them (GM's
> probably trying to figure out how to use an off-the-shelf polypro gas tank
> with a Walbro in-tank pump:) ).  There's the obvious problems of
> infrastructure, too.
> 
> BMW had a nice supercharged hydrogen-fuel engine that they were demo'ing
> nearly 10 years ago.  The biggest problem with that car was the size of the
> fuel tank - it took up a large portion of the trunk on a 5-series.  If
> anyone had done any development on it over the last 10 years, though
> (instead of spending all their time complying with the latest EPA and CARB
> rules), I imagine that you'd end up with a rather workable system.
> 
> As I understand it, hydrogen works pretty nice as a fuel - good resistance
> to detonation, excellent cold-start capabilities (you don't have to worry
> about it puddling in a manifold or intake runner, for sure), and it burns
> pretty clean with the exception of NOx emissions (since it burns fairly
> hot).
> 
> I'm sure that there's people that are worried about its explosiveness, but
> gasoline ain't exactly the safest fuel in the world, either.
> 
> Eric Bryant
> mailto:bryante at ghsp.com
> http://www.novagate.com/~bryante
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