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To: HarveyO who wrote (4577)	11/29/1999 12:18:00 AM
From: blue_chip	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5827

A nice comment from Ford A Quote from John Wallace, Executive Director of Th!nk Group, Ford Motor Company "Wallace believes fuel cells have the "potential" to balance the personal mobility and environmental "equation." He sees them as eventually playing a significant role in the world's energy production and transportation systems. He added, however, that they are "not around the corner" and it will not be easy getting them to the point where they can replace the internal combustion engine. He stated that Ford's first FCEV was a "multi-million dollar vehicle." He said that the newly formed California Fuel Cell Alliance is discovering how little it knows about the commercialization of fuel cell technology from manufacturing to advertising. He remarked that fuel cell research is a "black hole" into which cash disappears. " evworld.com

To: HarveyO who wrote (4577)	11/29/1999 7:22:00 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 5827

Admiral Richard Truly, head of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory: ". NREL scientists are pointing the way toward a good solution to hydrogen storage -- carbon nanotubes. With this scheme, the hydrogen will be stored in tiny carbon pores about 10 billionth of a meter in diameter. This approach stores a large amount of hydrogen in a very small volume, is safe, compact and easy to use. So in the future, you or your children will travel the highways by hydrogen produced from water and sunlight. And every 2000 miles or so you may have to stop to refuel with hydrogen stored in lightweight carbon nanotubes. If the engineering is clever enough, the car may circulate the byproduct water vapor for heat during the winter. Or, if need be, the water may be condensed for drinking. All without adding a drop of pollution or of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere." ch2bc.org July 2, 1999 Latest Research in Nanotube Hydrogen Storage Promises "Near Future" Storage Capacity Superior to Liquid Hydrogen, Inherent Safety Exceeding Other Fuels: High H2 Uptake by Alkali-Doped Carbon Nanotubes Under Ambient Pressure and Moderate Temperatures P. Chen, X. Wu, J. Lin, L. Tan Physics Department, National University of Singapore The H2 uptake can achieve 20 weight % for Li-doped CNT at 653 K, or 14 weight % for K-doped CNT at room temperature. These values correspond to ~160 (for Li-doped CNT) or 112 kg of H2/m3 (for K-doped CNT), respectively, and are comparable to those of gasoline and diesel. ...Although K-doped carbon samples can absorb H2 at lower temperature than Li-doped samples, Li-doped carbon materials are chemically more stable than K-doped carbon materials. They can maintain H2 uptake capability even after being heated in air at 373 K for hours, and no flame resulted even when the samples were exposed to air at 673 K after H2 had been absorbed. Science Magazine more: post-gazette.com