Possible Hydrogen fuel cell technology breakthru? - GreenHybrid

lars-ss · #1 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 09:42 AM

This looks promising - the physicists and chemists both agree it is very possible to achieve:

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On the road to petroleum independence and greenhouse-gas reduction, the old internal combustion engine will someday need to be scrapped. That will only occur when the alternative -- most likely the hydrogen-powered fuel cell -- is as cheap and convenient to use as the conventional automobile is today. It's perhaps the toughest challenge in fuel-cell research: designing a safe, lightweight and compact hydrogen fuel tank. Two recent papers, published in the April 22 and May 6 issues of the journal Physical Review Letters, find the most promising hydrogen storage medium is in something called carbon nanostructures.

http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2...newsletter_top

EricGo · #2 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 11:09 AM

And in a not completely unexpected twist of irony, carbon nanostructures are also one of the promising technologies being explored to increase battery capacity.

Delta Flyer · #3 (**permalink**) 05-16-2005, 12:04 PM

Did I read somewhere that one breakthru Fuel Cell Vehicles need is better acceleration, something that a hybrid assist can provide? In other words, Toyota and Honda are not on a diversion to FCVs with their hybrids.