Well, this'll screw up those oil companies' conspiracies to keep drivers dependent on their products!....
.... or more likely it is another graphene fantasy from Geim?!
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/green-tech/fuel-cells/graphenebased-fuel-cell-membrane-could-extract-hydrogen-directly-from-air/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=120414" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Whatever the possibilities here, the very fact that the idea has been posited, and quite probably no more or less practicable than an FCEV itself, could potentially throw the whole of the politics of FCEVs onto a different tangent. If those promoting FCEVs are doing so covertly and surreptitiously as a means to discredit BEVs or to sell hydrogen, both 'strategies' are voided by the potential of a BEV that can just sit there, continually suck elemental hydrogen from the air (present at 500ppb) and recharging its battery!
All that is needed to be done is for someone to promote this technology and prompt CARB (or whatever other 'pro-H2' body) to support it, thereby showing their 'true colours'. They'd have no reason not to do so if they had overt bona fide intentions. If they don't fund or promote its investigation then it'll evidence that hydrogen itself is not the goal, it is likely to be one of those covert stratagems of creating dependency or discrediting BEVs.
.... or more likely it is another graphene fantasy from Geim?!
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/green-tech/fuel-cells/graphenebased-fuel-cell-membrane-could-extract-hydrogen-directly-from-air/?utm_source=techalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=120414" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Whatever the possibilities here, the very fact that the idea has been posited, and quite probably no more or less practicable than an FCEV itself, could potentially throw the whole of the politics of FCEVs onto a different tangent. If those promoting FCEVs are doing so covertly and surreptitiously as a means to discredit BEVs or to sell hydrogen, both 'strategies' are voided by the potential of a BEV that can just sit there, continually suck elemental hydrogen from the air (present at 500ppb) and recharging its battery!
All that is needed to be done is for someone to promote this technology and prompt CARB (or whatever other 'pro-H2' body) to support it, thereby showing their 'true colours'. They'd have no reason not to do so if they had overt bona fide intentions. If they don't fund or promote its investigation then it'll evidence that hydrogen itself is not the goal, it is likely to be one of those covert stratagems of creating dependency or discrediting BEVs.
I am a believer in pure science/research for the sake of learning. However, given the basic facts currently understood, I would not expect industries to fund development efforts toward powering vehicles using ambient H2 supplies. Great to know we CAN pull energy from the H2 in the air and use it, would be great to explore what else can be done, but at this time it isn't something that poses a threat to any H2 Vendors. Face it, if you wanted to you could go set up a plant to pull H2 out of the air and bottle it - the H2 vendors likely would laugh at your folly given the cost to do so unless it was a byproduct of other efforts.
