“Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
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“Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
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Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#2Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive.
Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#3Good, better density than batteries in any case.
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#4Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive. Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!
> Anyone know what the catch is here?
Scaling up could be limited by the availability of Boron:
> Boron is synthesized entirely by cosmic ray spallation and supernovae and not by stellar nucleosynthesis, so it is a low-abundance element in the Solar System and in the Earth's crust.[12] It constitutes about 0.001 percent by weight of Earth's crust.[13]
> Global proven boron mineral mining reserves exceed one billion metric tonnes, against a yearly production of about four million tonnes
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#5Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive. Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!
The catch is that hydrogen storage is the smallest of the problems facing the nascent hydrogen economy. Energy losses in electrolysis and in the conversion from hydrogen to electricity are by far the biggest piece of the efficiency-loss pie.
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#6How in the world does a process for hydrocarbon separation becomes an article about green hydrogen storage?
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#7Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive. Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!
> Anyone know what the catch is here? Scaling up could be limited by the availability of Boron: > Boron is synthesized entirely by cosmic ray spallation and supernovae and not by stellar nucleosynthesis, so it is a low-abundance element in the Solar System and in the Earth's crust.[12] It constitutes about 0.001 percent by weight of Earth's crust.[13] > Global proven boron mineral mining reserves exceed one billion m…
Once the boron nitride powder is heated to release the captured hydrogen, can it be reused to capture again?
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#8Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive. Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!
> Anyone know what the catch is here? Scaling up could be limited by the availability of Boron: > Boron is synthesized entirely by cosmic ray spallation and supernovae and not by stellar nucleosynthesis, so it is a low-abundance element in the Solar System and in the Earth's crust.[12] It constitutes about 0.001 percent by weight of Earth's crust.[13] > Global proven boron mineral mining reserves exceed one billion m…
It uses boron nitride which seems relatively easily available in large-ish quantities: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/nano-boron-nitride-po...
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#9Oh goody, more paid for news about hydrogens bright future hitting the front page of hn.
When it’s a better ecosystem than battery-electric let’s see that as the number 1 spot.
Re: “Eureka moment” as Australian researchers make hydrogen storage breakthrough
#10Anyone know what the catch is here? Very exciting if real, but sometimes these things don't scale/aren't commercial/something else I'm ill-equipped to perceive. Not trying to knock this by any means, I hope it works wonderfully!
The catch is that the parent article is extremely confusing.
The real research article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13697...
has nothing about the storage of pure hydrogen (a.k.a. dihydrogen), which would be very surprising if achieved, but about a better method for the separation and storage of certain unsaturated hydrocarbon gases, e.g. acetylene or ethylene (which can be absorbed by boron nitride powder and released later).