Originally published November 15 2005
Danish scientists develop hydrogen storage tablet
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
At the Technical University of Denmark, scientists have moved closer to establishing hydrogen as a major fuel source, as they have developed a storage tablet that will enable transport of hydrogen in solid form.
With the new hydrogen tablet, it becomes much simpler to use the environmentally-friendly energy of hydrogen.
Hydrogen is a non-polluting fuel, but since it is a light gas it occupies too much volume, and it is flammable.
Consequently, effective and safe storage of hydrogen has challenged researchers world-wide for almost three decades.
At the Technical University of Denmark, DTU, an interdisciplinary team has developed a hydrogen tablet which enables storage and transport of hydrogen in solid form.
"Should you drive a car 600 km using gaseous hydrogen at normal pressure, it would require a fuel tank with a size of nine cars.
With our technology, the same amount of hydrogen can be stored in a normal gasoline tank", says Professor Claus Hviid Christensen, Department of Chemistry at DTU.
The hydrogen tablet is safe and inexpensive.
Ammonia is produced by a combination of hydrogen with nitrogen from the surrounding air, and the DTU-tablet therefore contains large amounts of hydrogen.
"The technology is a step towards making the society independent of fossil fuels" says Professor Jens N�rskov, director of the Nanotechnology Center at DTU.
He, Claus Hviid Christensen, Tue Johannessen, Ulrich Quaade and Rasmus Zink S�rensen are the five researchers behind the invention.
It is CO2-free, and it can be produced by renewable energy sources, e.g. wind power.
"We have a new solution to one of the major obstacles to the use of hydrogen as a fuel.
And we need new energy technologies -- oil and gas will not last, and without energy, there is no modern society", says Jens N�rskov.
Together with DTU and SeeD Capital Denmark, the researchers have founded the company Amminex A/S, which will focus on the further development and commercialization of the technology.
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