My father has an idea to use sodium (Na) as fuel for fuel cells. This could easily replace batteries by having more or less instant reactions to demand, being m

My father has an idea to use sodium (Na) as fuel for fuel cells. This could easily replace batteries by having more or less instant reactions to demand, being much more energy dense and being simple to handle. Also, there is no CO_2 that would need to be captured compared to "bio" fuels. The resulting sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and hydrogen (H_2) can easily be used further e.g. in the chemical industry or recycled, electrolysis of NaOH is well known and also produces hydrogen as a byproduct. The resulting sodium metal can again be used as fuel. It creates a circular economy. Handling sodium securely at scale is also probably even easier than handling gasoline or diesel. Most of these reactions at industrial scale are more than 50 years old but nobody bothered to actually implement it (even though a hint about sodium cells for electricity generation is present in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater" by Jules Verne already) instead of the more complex approaches like e.g. synthetic gasoline. You can look at the orgpage about these ideas https://orgpad.com/s/energiewende https://orgpad.com/s/energiewende my father also gave a talk last week about it, there is a recording, which will be posted during the next days. Disclaimer: I work for the small startup OrgPad, which tries to create a tool for easier decomposition of linear ideas/ content into a network of ideas/ content. An ex-Googler, Pavel Klavík PhD. describes the technology (hint Clojure and ClojureScript) and approaches behind OrgPad in a recent talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoIfeb31UU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UoIfeb31UU