to be stored and transported safely. The breakthrough was touted as a key discovery to making the fuel viable. After all, hydrogen as a fuel is very attractive due to its environmental benefits, but its storage and transport have long been notoriously complicated endeavors.process in green hydrogen energy that generates large amounts of ultra-pure hydrogen on demand and that is safe to store and transport.
"EAT has developed a revolutionary porous silicon material, known as Si+, which has the ability to generate ultra-pure hydrogen from a water source and which acts as a solid-state hydrogen generating material – one that is compact, robust, and easily transportable – solving many of the issues that have inhibited the growth of the hydrogen economy," said the energy firm in a press release.When hydrogen is needed, you simply submerge the Si+ powder into water and mix it.
The powder functions at a wide range of ambient temperatures between 0-80 °C . And better yet, apart from the hydrogen gas, all that's left over is silicon dioxide, the major constituent of sand. Not a bad process, eh? The sand can then be used in construction or even to make a nice beach.
This means Si+ is extremely environmentally friendly, having a very low carbon footprint. EAT says its systems are already under consideration from the Hong Kong Airport Authority, which is evaluating them as a way toIf the company can really deliver on its promise, without making the product too expensive, then we might be looking at our next mass-produced energy system.
This is actually arse backwards. water is h2o. So to produce hydrogen you would waste oxygen? Considering how depleted the earths oxygen is, why would you want to waste it in some ill thought compound to seperate hydrogen from water?