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On the News Hour on PBS airing sept 22, they were covering a story regarding storing energy from electricy generated by renewables (wind and solar). A professor Nocera at MIT was was using electrolysis to create h to store to be used later for electrical generation. What caught my eye was he
was using colbalt phosphate as a catalyst,his words, to double the production of h over what I assumed was distilled water. Any thoughts?
http://hhoforums.com/showthread.php?t=5892
I am sure its not that difficult, just probably expensive if you start buying platinum. I think they just found the right combinations of elements.
Also the area 51 guy, Bob Lazar has formed a company to sell H technology to power cars or whatever. Says the actual unit is about as big as a dishwasher and runs off solar panels or a wind turbine. It has a metal hydride storage tank.
They are working on a universal bolt in conversion system for cars.
The H is stored in a granular metal hydride. You plug your car into the unit, it extracts the H from the metal hydride in the unit or storage tank and into the car hydride tank.
A hydrogen storage tank with metal hydride is much more compact and safe than compressed H tanks.
Capacity decreases over time with metal hydrides, but their system supposedly a high charge/discharge cycles, something like 7 years they lost 12% in capacity.
Supposedly the govt is on his back. Not supprisong.
Sounds interesting anyway.
since cobalt and phosphate are both not very soluble in water. I think they may be using cobalt nitrate and trisodium phosphate. Just a guess though! The intresting part to me is when current is passed between the anode and cathode, the anode developes a layer of cobalt which becomes a oxygen catalyst. It seams they've solved half the equasion anyway. I notice there still using a platinum cathode though$$$$$$$$