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;
It is conceivable, based on this research, that hydrogen production could be combined with the fuel cell itself to make what would amount to a mobile electric generator fueled simply by hydrogen present in air.
“When you know how it should work, it is a very simple setup,” said Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, a PhD student and corresponding author of this paper, in a press release. “You put a hydrogen-containing gas on one side, apply a small electric current, and collect pure hydrogen on the other side. This hydrogen can then be burned in a fuel cell.”
Lozada-Hidalgo added: “We worked with small membranes, and the achieved flow of hydrogen is of course tiny so far. But this is the initial stage of discovery, and the paper is to make experts aware of the existing prospects. To build up and test hydrogen harvesters will require much further effort."
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.