On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:07:13 +0100, Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 17/09/2011 16:14, Andy Breen wrote:

The real question is - is charge cycle efficiency enough of a
restrictive factor. It's not like the alternatives don't have serious
issues of their own. Inductive charging or power supply is lossy, H2 is
/really/ good at leaking out of storage (and producing the stuff and
compressing or liquifying it are all monsterously lossy processes).

I went on a tour of Diamond a couple of weeks ago, and they were talking
about recent work to zap their small particles at some molecular
structures which Nottingham university is developing to store hydrogen.
My brain was at risk of starting to hurt, but it sounded convincing at
the time.

Interesting..
I've got some colleagues who use Diamond. I must remember to ask them if
they've heard anything about this.

Ta for that.



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