nekote
join:2000-12-16
Hopkinton, MA
| reply to RR Conductor
Nice piece on the Hindenburg
Nice job on the Hindenburg - jogged my memory of the investigations that found it was the flamable skin that was mostly to blame.
Best point IMHO - same thing woulda' happened, even if it were somehow using inert helium.
As to hydrogen, however, I can't see storing it in its gaseous form or creating a pure hydrogen gas infrastructure as a likely winner. Rather, storing hydrogen in something much more energy dense, and familiar, like methanol, ethanol, gasoline or some such familiar hydrocarbon.
U of Minn. came up with an inexpensive catalyst that auto-reforms ethanol to hydrogen, rather than needing a steam reformer 100 times bigger. One of many:
»news.minnesota.publicradio.org/f···ydrogen/
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