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Basically, everything about it is hard. Very high pressure and low temperature, leakage, steel walls get brittle, etc. It's a nightmare, doable, but very hard t
by tambourine_man 4y ago
Basically, everything about it is hard. Very high pressure and low temperature, leakage, steel walls get brittle, etc. It's a nightmare, doable, but very hard to scale.
The most promising solutions I've seen are taking advantage of the fact that single H+ “dissolves” into metal under pressure. You store that saturated metal and heat it when you want to release it. That way energy density starts to make sense. This video shows one such approach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0fnEsz4Ks0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0fnEsz4Ks0
Binding it with carbon seems promising as well, but I wouldn't bet on simply trying to jam it as a gas in a tank.
But I'm not an expert, just very interested on the subject for many decades.
- ummonk 4y agoHow is binding it with carbon different from just using methane? I guess you reuse the carbon instead of emitting it into the air?
- 01100011 4y ago"Binding" is probably the wrong term to use. Its likely absorption with a bit of adsorption. Not the same as a covalent bond.
- tambourine_man 4y agoOf course, imagining carbon capture from the atmosphere. All of that is really hard to do economically