Our Defense Dollars at Work

I'm still a little questioning on the safety aspects of nanotech, and nanoparticles in particular, but that being said, I find this article to be of some interest.  I still think the transportation future is not likely to be a hydrogen-based one.  I see the hydrogen storage option as being a generated and consumed on-site gig.  Like hydrogen generating solar or wind systems with storage tanks and a fuel cell to provide more reliable energy supply than just the power source alone. 

Great Buckyballs!  Storing Hydrogen with Carbon Nanostructures - DailyTech - 23 Mar 08

"The new research, which will be published in the March 2008 cover of the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters, was funded in part by over a billion dollars in grant money the U.S. Department of Energy has put aside for hydrogen storage research, as well as the office of Naval research.  Lead researcher Boris Yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Rice, is thrilled with the results.  He states, 'Based on our calculations, it appears that some buckyballs are capable of holding volumes of hydrogen so dense as to be almost metallic.  It appears they can hold about 8 percent of their weight in hydrogen at room temperature, which is considerably better than the federal target of 6 percent.'"

Our Defense Dollars at Work

I'm still a little questioning on the safety aspects of nanotech, and nanoparticles in particular, but that being said, I find this article to be of some interest.  I still think the transportation future is not likely to be a hydrogen-based one.  I see the hydrogen storage option as being a generated and consumed on-site gig.  Like hydrogen generating solar or wind systems with storage tanks and a fuel cell to provide more reliable energy supply than just the power source alone. 

Great Buckyballs!  Storing Hydrogen with Carbon Nanostructures - DailyTech - 23 Mar 08

"The new research, which will be published in the March 2008 cover of the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters, was funded in part by over a billion dollars in grant money the U.S. Department of Energy has put aside for hydrogen storage research, as well as the office of Naval research.  Lead researcher Boris Yakobson, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Rice, is thrilled with the results.  He states, 'Based on our calculations, it appears that some buckyballs are capable of holding volumes of hydrogen so dense as to be almost metallic.  It appears they can hold about 8 percent of their weight in hydrogen at room temperature, which is considerably better than the federal target of 6 percent.'"