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Could this make fuel cells common place? Is platinum the main cost driver?
by mrfusion 4y ago
Could this make fuel cells common place? Is platinum the main cost driver?
- ianai 4y agoWell it’s a liquid. My understanding of fuel cells is they need an ionic exchange membrane that the hydrogen nuclei pass through while the electrons do some work in a circuit to the other side. At the very least this gives us an idea of how being better able to search quantum interactions/“scenes” just might make a lot of technological impossible s suddenly possible.
- mrfusion 4y agoCould we bubble the hydrogen through the liquid?
- ianai 4y agoWhat’s going to push the electrons anywhere?
- ianai 4y agoWarning, I’m talking about stuff I know way too little about: So I wonder whether being liquid makes this less helpful in a fuel cell. If I understand fuel cell chemistry enough, platinum would be on either side of the actual proton exchange membrane to form the anode and cathode. I see a liquid being problematic in that scenario as it would slosh around instead of making a circuit. More helpful would be some sort of solid state of platinum (preferably something cheaper) on either side that conducted the electrons away to the poles. But this definitely shows there’s interesting stuff to be found with these methods. Might just someday find that perfect fuel cell material.
- Victerius 4y agoThe real question: Does it have military applications?
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- wrycoder 4y agoCatalytic converters, so the tanks will pollute less.
- wolfi1 4y agofor fuel cells not really, for the electrolysis part (ie generation of hydrogen) it could be interesting
- jhgb 4y agoIsn't electrolysis already readily served using traditional alkaline electrolyzers? At the very least there you have the tremendous advantage of needing zero rare materials; pretty much any developed country can manufacture their own alkaline electrolyzers.