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4. Toyota, Hyundai, GM and Honda have figured out

Reply to FogerRox (Reply #2)

Mon May 19, 2014, 05:19 PM

May 2014

how to store it in cars.

Toyota fires bullets into hydrogen fuel tanks

With some industry members and analysts questioning both the viability and durability of hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles, Toyota executive Bob Carter, speaking at the Automotive News World Congress this week, says the Japanese automaker went all Clint Eastwood on the fuel tanks of a fuel-cell prototype. Carter says that bullets from a small-caliber gun bounced off the carbon-fiber tanks, and that .50-caliber bullets barely made dents...

http://green.autoblog.com/2014/01/16/toyota-fires-bullets-hydrogen-fuel-tanks-shoots-ev-supporter/

Mike Strizki stores hydrogen he made from solar panels -in New Jersey no less-in propane tanks: Inside the Solar-Hydrogen House: No More Power Bills--Ever (from 2008) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hydrogen-house/

2013 update:

Other ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_tank

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horses can be turned into glue quadrature May 2014 #1

I like it. Except that Hydrogen doesnt store very well. FogerRox May 2014 #2

It stores well enough for this jpak May 2014 #3

Hydrogen will leak out, its atoms are smaller than any other substance FogerRox May 2014 #6

Toyota, Hyundai, GM and Honda have figured out nationalize the fed May 2014 #4

Hydrogen atoms are smaller than any substance used as a tank. FogerRox May 2014 #5

Strange that it doesn't seem to have leaked out of Honda's nationalize the fed May 2014 #7

here it is FogerRox May 2014 #12

That doesn't seem right LouisvilleDem May 2014 #8

"gaseous hydrogen will leak through most materials over time." FogerRox May 2014 #9

The size of the atoms isn't the big problem jmowreader Jun 2014 #19

Wiki Molecular hydrogen leaks slowly from most containment vessels. FogerRox May 2014 #10

Adding hydrogen to gas in America's aging pipeline infrastructure... hunter May 2014 #11

No one is seriously proposing to pipe hydrogen thru any pipelines FogerRox May 2014 #13

New hydrogen pipelines are being built as you read this nationalize the fed May 2014 #14

Hydrogen pipelines built for the oil industry. hunter Jun 2014 #15

But FogerRox said "No one is seriously proposing to pipe hydrogen nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #17

Hunter & I were not refering to new hydrogen pipelines.. FogerRox Jun 2014 #16

You said:No one is seriously proposing to pipe hydrogen thru any pipelines nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #18

DO you want to pick a pie fight or can you stick to the science FogerRox Jun 2014 #20