Hydrogen Storage in Carbon
A project to make a theoretical study to determine and understand possible physical mechanism for uptake of hydrogen gas in so-called carbon cones and explore other properties of these cones.
The development of novel materials for efficiently storing hydrogen is of great current interest in connection with the future “hydrogen society”, a concept of an ideal energy system based on renewable energy sources using hydrogen as an energy carrier.
Carbon comes in different forms. Prior to 1985 carbon was only known in two crystalline forms: diamond and graphite. The so-called fullerenes or Buckyballs were then discovered by chance. (Nobel Prize was awarded in 1996 for this discovery.) In 1991 it was discovered that that it was also possible to make nanotubes, a sort of elongated fullerenes. In 1997 Thomas Ebbesen et al. found that carbon could also be formed as cones in the so-called Kvaerner Carbon Black Hydrogen process.
I'm following this path from earlies 70's past century. People from Zero Development Group have started another propaganda: Global Warming.
Predictably, my account last week of a presentation and test drive of BMW’s liquid hydrogen-powered cars generated all kinds of angry nay-saying.
The “no such thing as global warming” crowd spoke up; the “global warming isn’t human-driven” contingent was heard from.
Most respondents, however, simply called hydrogen cars a dead end. “You’ll produce more pollution burning fossil fuels to CREATE the hydrogen than you’ll save by driving these zero-emission vehicles,” they reiterated.
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