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Carbon fiber? That's what cars like the Toyota Mirai are storing it in.

• hinkley 6y ago
  The NASA planned replacement for the space shuttle had a bunch of setbacks, but what killed it was the carbon fiber cryo tanks delaminating. They couldn’t solve the problem fast enough and it all got shitcanned. Has that been solved now? The Mirai can have a low pressure tank, fed from a much larger, higher pressure tank at the fuel station. That tank and the delivery systems for it are separate problems that also have to be solved at scale. “At scale” is the problem that public policy has to wrestle with. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you can do it for everybody.
  • Hypx 6y ago
    That was in the 1990s. Not to mention they were trying to build a non-cylindrical tank which made things significantly harder.